What are all you TE44 guys running?

[VadersV6]

It sounds like your car may be rich or have a pre turbo exhaust leak. A TE44 should not go to 3200 RPM without spooling (unless it was a 4K stall converter, I guess). Making only 1-2 psi of boost at 3200 RPM doesn't make sense.

A N/L converter won't mph with a small turbo like a L/U converter will, even a heavy ass D5.

If you have ported heads and a cam, a loose converter and a big turbo can work. A TE44, not so much.

A loose N/L converter with a TE44/TA49 is not ideal for high mph, regardless of what your butt dyno is telling you.

Yeah, thats why I was recommending that he go with a low stall TC, but to go with the 16930 nontheless. It was only getting 1-2psi by 3200 because it was around a 4000 stall TC....I didnt pick the combo...some moron in the past totally destroyed the car and its been a painful journey undoing his damage. It takes 1 idiot to throw a pot of gold in the bottom of the lake, and all the wise men in the village cant get it back out. Anyway, the 16930 is an excellent TC, and if you have it stalled right, it wont cost you any mpg...maybe 1-2 at the most on the highway. Just make sure to get a non lock pump valve and a tranny fluid cooler if you dont have one already. And also, if its stalled right, it wont cost you much in terms of trap speed. Trust me on this TC. Its like a nuclear bomb when matched to a 44. A serious contender. Only problem is that its not cheap. I gave mine away in a trade with a 9-11 that I never installed. Had I known my mileage wouldnt improve, I never would have taken it out. It was like a 100 shot of nitrous compared to the D-5.

 

[Quick6'n'-K.C.]

Ran a full bolt-on/tune LS1 tonight from a 40 kick to around 110 or so and was pulling pretty good. Judging from his 1/8th mph I should be running 91+ in the 1/8th mile the way I sit right now on 22psi. Left the timing the same. Gonna bump it all up a bit and up the alky some.

91-96MPH should be normal for a TE44 turbo in the 1/8th...
If it only goes 108 something is wrong on the top end, stock turbo cars can do that fairly easy...

117-120 is great for that turbo, locked convertor

Some of those full weight turbo regals are freaks that run 121-123 with a TE44 are just BBBBBAAAAADDDD AASSSSSS CARS.

Thats what you should shoot for:biggrin:

BW

 

[86brick]

My bro's old GN ran 11.85 @118mph on pump gas/alky and with the 275/50/15 BFG DRs. Combo was as follows~ TE44 (Precision .63 A/R housing), 15 row extended core stock location IC, 3" THDP, 2.5" Hooker exhaust, 009's 42.5lb inj., single hotwired 340 Walbro pump, Champion ported irons/intake, RA 108 chip with 26* of timing and a 12" 2800 stall converter. This was with 22lbs of boost and the converter locked tuning for O2's in 800-770 range on the SM. As you can probably tell by the ET the car had crappy 1.8x 60's with the BFGs

I have a pretty similar combo (minus the ported heads/intake) on my car now and will be looking for similar results with the MT 255/60/15 DRs.

 

[TurboT231]

Te-44.

Hey Steve, remember when Oscar's (Freak) ran 11.30 @ 118 with his 44 a/r.82 with a red strip lock-up and then with a 75 NOS shot went 10.78 @ 124 about 7 years shocked a lot of people that night.:wink:

 

[86brick]

Hey Steve, remember when Oscar's (Freak) ran 11.30 @ 118 with his 44 a/r.82 with a red strip lock-up and then with a 75 NOS shot went 10.78 @ 124 about 7 years shocked a lot of people that night.:wink:

Freddy,

Yep I remember Oscar's car and that car was definitely a freak!!! Honestly though, the weather at Moroso probably couldn't have been any better that night and as you will recall the track was hooking very hard. What was the 60' on the 10.78 pass?? If I remember correctly it was a 1.52 which for a car that had nothing done to the suspension was pretty badass! There were several people that couldn't believe how fast the car was going with that combination. It helps too that you were driving:wink:

 

[TampaTurbo]

I am as basic as it gets and run 11.9's like nothing at all. See siganture,

Alkycontrol is for sure a must. I am on the stock long block and converter still.

 

[TurboT231]

Freddy,

Yep I remember Oscar's car and that car was definitely a freak!!! Honestly though, the weather at Moroso probably couldn't have been any better that night and as you will recall the track was hooking very hard. What was the 60' on the 10.78 pass?? If I remember correctly it was a 1.52 which for a car that had nothing done to the suspension was pretty badass! There were several people that couldn't believe how fast the car was going with that combination. It helps too that you were driving:wink:

Wow Steve, you got a good memory, 1.52 was the short and your right about the weather it was perfect. I don't think it matters who's driving that car, it's one of those FREAKS.:biggrin: