lock up?

[jerrad]

i was wondering what kind of time drop i should see from locking up my stock converter? also how much damage does it do? and how do you lock it up with a paper clip?

 

[jpratt]

Take from http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/sunday.html

"Paper clip

A paper clip? Well, I know there is controversy on this subject, I can only speak from experience. Locking up the torque converter has always been worth a solid 2 tenths (YES, TWO TENTHS FROM A PAPER CLIP!) at the track. Some say breakage can occur, which comes from the fact that you are working the Torque Converter Clutch (TCC) on the shifts by locking it up at WOT. This can eventually burn out the clutches, but at the typical "Recipe Car" level, the stock converter will take this treatment for several hundred runs."

 

[evil666]

Where do you hook up this paper clip?

 

[jpratt]

Again from http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/electrical/switches.html

TCC Lockup
Locking up the torque converter manually has been shown to improve ET's by up to .2 seconds and add 2 MPH to your trap speed in the quarter mile. By activating this switch at the starting line, fluid will travel to the converter forcing lockup once the transmission hits second gear (there is no fluid path to converter while in 1st or reverse.) Yes, this is hard on the converter and transmission, but so is racing in general.

The switch will ground the TCC circuit regardless of ECM request. To install, run a wire from a ground location to one end of the switch and run another wire from the other end of the switch to terminal F on the ALDL connector under the radio pod. (As you are looking at the ALDL connector, terminal F is at the top left.) The easiest way to do the connection is to splice into the wire behind the connector.

Remember to flip the switch to the Off position once you are through the quarter mile to avoid unnecessary lockup, wear-and-tear, etc. With the switch in the Off position, the converter will only lockup when the ECM commands it to lockup. Note that this retains the Brake pedal override.

 

[jpratt]

or here http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89322&highlight=paper+clip

 

[chris718]

good information

 

[jerrad]

im just wondering how much damage it does. one guy said a couple hundered runs but at 50 does it start to go or what?

 

[jsta6]

Originally posted by jerrad
im just wondering how much damage it does. one guy said a couple hundered runs but at 50 does it start to go or what?

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