What fabrication shop are you looking at?
Down on south Madison. A buddy knows those guys. They want to see the car before we talk money so I need to get it loaded up one day next week.
What fabrication shop are you looking at?
I had a teacher in tech school that said he had a th350 with a clutch instead of a torque converter. Variable Stall Speed converter was the term he used. If I remember right, this was done in the late 60's-70's. Anybody ever seen or know about one like that?
You old guys don't know how good you had it
I never saw a T-350 with a clutch but they did do this with the torque flite Trans. They called these "Clutch Flites". It was seriously hard on the sprag's and was not developed fully. This was the precursor to developing the high speed stall we are familiar with today.
I believe your teacher was full of "Poo"
It might have been torque flight. It's been more than 20 years since the conversation.
The teacher was in his 50's then. He had an album of him and his dad working on and racing at Bunker Hill, probably in the late 60's maybe. They had a 56 Chevy. I remember it was white with red stripes.
[video=youtube_share;lKf_ZGmPjB4]http://youtu.be/lKf_ZGmPjB4[/video]
How do you get the video to show up, I've never gotten it to work?
Gm had switch pitch converters in the 60's. I rebuilt a few of the Trans that had them. Had a internal electrical switch that changed the stall speed. Most of them I wired a switch on the dash and made them full manual.
Worked OK IIRC stall switched from 1300 to 2600 depending on application.
I think these were only used in BOP or at least I never saw or heard of a Chevy with one.
Hmmmm. There would be some things I would change, but looks to be a solid start.
https://fayar.craigslist.org/cto/6064555284.html
I wonder who the stig is these days.