Best Torque Converter mild Commando 273

fishy68 said

In 72 the factories were forced to use a new ratings system that entailed having all accessories installed on the engine and if I remember right they even had to have the trans bolted up and the rating was taken after the trans. For that reason every engine no matter what brand appeared to lose anywhere up to 75 hp but in reality they lost only a fraction of that amount due to lower compression and sometimes a milder cam. I'm not knocking 273's but they did not produce as much torque as a 318 and even if they did the 318 isn't a torque monster by any stretch of the imagination and the cam he's using is pretty fair size considering the engine's cubic inches.

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Spoilsport! LOL The 273 is what it is. A small engine that runs good if you have all the elements correct but still not as good as the bigger engines of the same family. They are fun. When I let mine go and the clutch pedal sticks to the floor and the tach bounces off 6 and nothing is hurt it is cool. I don't rev and side step the clutch because I am the one that has to fix the damage but mine (they) run pretty good for a small cube engine just like the 283's and the 289's in the Chevy and Ford crowds. They ran the way they did and that's why the manufacturers went bigger. One step at at a time. Now we have 390 cube Hemi's that put out 700 horse. One step at a time! Nice chatting with you fishy.