low budget bracket racing blues
You want low budget bracket racing...... Go buy a mid 90s Buick. Drive up to the lights with the shifter in "Drive".
im basically doing that...except with mo-power! the car shifts itself,and isnt all that fast (8.0's-1/8th) and started out working very well. went to several test n tunes to work it all in and find the bugs. it entered its first race this past saturday and we got runner up! so i guess what im working with is gonna work...if i ever get all the new bugs out.
i tightened the bands (the other day) and put fluid and a filter in it tonight. after 3 failed tries at getting the pan sealed i gave it up for tonight. i pulled the drain plug and its magnet is covered in "the black paste" that covered the bottom of the pan when i originally dropped it...and yes i cleaned everything up good before i put it back together. when i drop the pan im expecting it to be covered again. im hoping the new fluid just washed out the trans/converter into the pan...but im expecting the worst. ive acquired a freshly rebuilt trans,but the torque converter price (for a good one) is my only hold up on that....im hoping to get a few races outta the junk already in place but it aint lookin good.
used atf+4 because thats the info i got from a google search.
im sure glad to hear im not hurting anything coasting down the return road. my first race went round robin the last few rounds and i needed the extra cooling time.
when my peggy bundy gives me a break i guess i'll be trying a SMR converter. anybody ever had any luck (good or bad ) outta one of those?
im considering blocking off the car off to about 1/2 throttle and try to limp into the next few races...i was thinking about deep staging off idle to try and cut a light. maybe this junk b&m converter will live a few weeks like that?