Stupid Question?

[nickb]

Whats a lock up converter? What does it do?

What does a high stall converter do? Lets say its a 3100 stall, what does that mean?

Thanks in advance for not making me feel stupid.

Nick

 

[chris718]

lockup is when a 100 percent coupling exists between the crankshaft and input shaft of the transmission overriding the percentage of slippage present in the fluid coupling of the convertor by mechanically locking the drive and driven members of the convertor together with a friction disk .stall speed is a rating of coupling efficiency of the convertor at a given rpm range .3100 means that this is the rpm when the fluid coupling will really apply usable force to drive the input shaft and ultimately the differential and vehicle.by allowing higher attainable rpms the vehicle may leave on a fatter [portion of the engines torque curve.www.ckperformance.com

 

[nickb]

OK got the stall speed little confused with the lock up thing though. What the point of having it? What does it allow you to do?

Efharesto in advance.

Nick

 

[chris718]

stupid question

outhen provlima, it allows the car to leave hrder when racing. ever been to astoria...lol kalinikta filemou

 

[nickb]

It's my second home. My cousins live off 37th and Ditmars. Thanks again.

 

[Tow Man]

Efharesto in advance, outhen provlima, kalinikta filemou

 

[chris718]

sorry tow man how rude of me .thanks in advance,not a problem,good night my friend.nick and i were just letting each other know that we are greeks.not any kind of code .i prefer to converse in greek as i live in a greek community in nyc,and thru the course of the day most of my communications with others are as such .YOU BROKE THE CODE MANN.did you ever see the movie a beautiful mind?how many greeks are out there on vturbo buick .com? i filotimi ton ellinon.

 

[nickb]

 

[chris718]

e niko,could we be the only ones?

 

[nickb]

Nomeezo, if we posted this question as a new topic we would get a better response.