kiggly
Supporting Vendor
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- Feb 17, 2003
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Ann Arbor,
Michigan
This is beginning to get well off topic, but I think it still deserves a reply.
I have swapped back to the AT. The AT puts down power better in a traction-limited vehicle, such as mine, than the MT ever could. As many people know, TRE was helping me with the 5-spd transmission. I had no problems whatsoever with the TRE trans. It had about 35 passes on it this year and was removed in perfect working order, I just wanted to try the auto again.
The AT I'm using is NOT an IPT transmission. I have worked with IPT on a few parts and strategies on how to make things work and live better. I built the transmission in my race car (using some IPT parts). This means that when stupid things go wrong, like the valvebody issues I had the first time out, it is MY fault. This also means that when there is a combination of parts that hold power and don't break, it is BOTH mine and IPT's information. I just want to make it clear that even though IPT is not building my AT, they certainly have all the knowledge and expertise needed to make a trans that holds power as well as or better than what I've cobbled together. Also just to clear this up, I am running my own electronics to actuate the shifts.
That 9.965 pass was the one and only near-full pass I had with the AT. I haven't figured out how to launch the car yet and I also haven't dialed in the proper amount of boost during the first 1/8th mile. There is a lot more in it. That was my last pass of the season and I almost lost the car during it. The block split in cylinder #1's wall at about the 1000' mark and about 145mph, connecting the coolant system to in-cylinder pressures. That is why my 1/4 trap speed is so low, I was catching the slide all the coolant threw the car into (it blew a hose off when the block ruptured), then on the brakes well before the end of the track. I won't see a real time from it until next year, but this did allow me to tear the trans down and see that everything in it is doing just fine.
If there were any questions I missed, please ask them in a single, coherent line. I became very frustrated weeding through the large blocks of unformatted or paragraphed text and skimmed through them quickly.
Kevin
I have swapped back to the AT. The AT puts down power better in a traction-limited vehicle, such as mine, than the MT ever could. As many people know, TRE was helping me with the 5-spd transmission. I had no problems whatsoever with the TRE trans. It had about 35 passes on it this year and was removed in perfect working order, I just wanted to try the auto again.
The AT I'm using is NOT an IPT transmission. I have worked with IPT on a few parts and strategies on how to make things work and live better. I built the transmission in my race car (using some IPT parts). This means that when stupid things go wrong, like the valvebody issues I had the first time out, it is MY fault. This also means that when there is a combination of parts that hold power and don't break, it is BOTH mine and IPT's information. I just want to make it clear that even though IPT is not building my AT, they certainly have all the knowledge and expertise needed to make a trans that holds power as well as or better than what I've cobbled together. Also just to clear this up, I am running my own electronics to actuate the shifts.
That 9.965 pass was the one and only near-full pass I had with the AT. I haven't figured out how to launch the car yet and I also haven't dialed in the proper amount of boost during the first 1/8th mile. There is a lot more in it. That was my last pass of the season and I almost lost the car during it. The block split in cylinder #1's wall at about the 1000' mark and about 145mph, connecting the coolant system to in-cylinder pressures. That is why my 1/4 trap speed is so low, I was catching the slide all the coolant threw the car into (it blew a hose off when the block ruptured), then on the brakes well before the end of the track. I won't see a real time from it until next year, but this did allow me to tear the trans down and see that everything in it is doing just fine.
If there were any questions I missed, please ask them in a single, coherent line. I became very frustrated weeding through the large blocks of unformatted or paragraphed text and skimmed through them quickly.
Kevin