shots from the garage...
Dropped the trans off with Dave at Pro Trans last weekend in hopes that we can finally get this turd to live. He hadn't seen the issue we're fighting with the return springs coming apart, nor has anyone else I've talked to. What we're going to do is to change the front clutch piston to a design that retains the springs in a better fashion. We figured out that the front drum is a TCS piece and the spring retaining method is just small cups. Even a stock piston has raised towers that the springs seat over. We had about 200 passes on that same drum with our W5 mill, but the W8 is quite a bit more powerful and we have been spinning it a little harder. Hopefully it will be done soon. Got some new piece is this week. Going to twin 12" fans and a new crossflow radiator. I ended up buying one from prcracing.com Custom build and didn't break the bank in my opinion. I had a trans cooler added to it as well as the side mounting plates.
next will be fabbing up a bracket for the fans so they can be quickly removed... I'm not a fan of those zip tie retainers that go through the fins.
Dropped the trans off with Dave at Pro Trans last weekend in hopes that we can finally get this turd to live. He hadn't seen the issue we're fighting with the return springs coming apart, nor has anyone else I've talked to. What we're going to do is to change the front clutch piston to a design that retains the springs in a better fashion. We figured out that the front drum is a TCS piece and the spring retaining method is just small cups. Even a stock piston has raised towers that the springs seat over. We had about 200 passes on that same drum with our W5 mill, but the W8 is quite a bit more powerful and we have been spinning it a little harder. Hopefully it will be done soon. Got some new piece is this week. Going to twin 12" fans and a new crossflow radiator. I ended up buying one from prcracing.com Custom build and didn't break the bank in my opinion. I had a trans cooler added to it as well as the side mounting plates.
next will be fabbing up a bracket for the fans so they can be quickly removed... I'm not a fan of those zip tie retainers that go through the fins.