could someone please explain to me what the "stall" in a converter is and what it does? how do you pick your "stall" speed. why does it matter? thank you.:Handshake
if you call a converter shop (I use EDGE... 805-277-7305) and give them all the specs on your setup, they can explain it to you and tell you the right one for your car... http://www.hardtail.com/techtips/selectingconverter.html
http://www.carcraft.com/techarticles/selecting_right_torque_converter/index.html Years ago, we had car magazines, and we read them, and kept every copy, just incase you needed answers for things you didn't know..then the internet came along, and wrecked that.
The demise of this wasnt the internet, I attribute it more to what I call the "Fast and the Furious" syndrome. Kids see those movies and then run out and put a bunch of little bolt on parts on their cars, and a bottle of NOS and think they are the cats meow. The magazines realised this and played up to them allot leaving more and more of the information out that required serious thought, with moderate complexity. A good way to summarise it is like this, I go back into my stash of old shop manuals(I keep all of the ones I accrue) and I look at the old chiltons truck manual I bought when I was 16 and I got my old 72 f100. Now in that manual it gives a breakdown of the whole truck, everything from the correct way to change the blinker fluid to complete overhaul of a C6 including all torque specs. Now grab one of the newer shop manuals no matter what brand or what car it is for, say for an 86 tunderbird with a C5, the entire automatic transmission section involves changing the filter, and for anything else it instructs you to take the transmission to a shop... So all in all generally most of the car magazines have gotten dumber due to the lack of unwillingness to undertake the major tasks that the majority of their target audience now just wont do. Heck a couple of the fox body guys i work with are even afraid to change the cams out in their 5.0s, because it is dissasembling the motor itself and they are always afraid to do it Every now and then you do find a worthwile article but for the most part I quit buying most car magazines because out of the 100+ pages in a magazine it seemed like 90 of those pages are just an advertisement, even if the things they are advertising is just written into a tech article.
I love my old repair books(MY father-in law family had books from 47 up to 90,when the shop finally closed,and i was lucky enough to buy them at the estate sale)Everyone there new me and not one bid against me.Over 200 books .$27.50This was back in 91.They have all the answers you could want,most even have hand written additions on easier fixes andjust good old experience .these books are great. it' to bad the younger people don't try to read the magazines and keep them going.
It only really matters, in my opinion, if you are going to DRAG RACE your car. Are you going to DRAG RACE your car?
i am just trying to learn more about cars. i have no idea if i am going to drag race. might be fun. i do want to broaden my knowledge base.
Even on the street, if you never take the car to a track,having the correct converter will maximize the performance of the car (Thats our Goal anyway isnt it?). We took My sons Mustang for a drive on the street that had just undergone an Intake,Heads,Cam,roller rockers,and Throttle body upgrade,but it still had a stock type converter...guess what... it was SLOWER than it was before the mods...WHY ?... The converter did not match the rest of the combo.We knew it was going to need a converter prior to the mods,but hadnt put one in yet, but the LACK of performance was still a bit of a surprise. We then ordered and installed a new MATCHED (to his combo) converter from Edge... and when we took the car back out for a drive it was AWESOME! The car has since been to the track and of coarse the performance gains were VERY big there also, but the point is : When building a car to ANY level of performance weather it be for the street,track,or a little of both,matching every component has a crucial effect on the finished cars performance. And dont let anyone try to tell you different.
