Less Parasitic Loss
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If there were a valid circumstance I might be able to provide a somewhat reasonable means to achieve a desired result. Curiosity gives me no parameters within which to work other than to say that it will kill a transmission even more easily than a cat.
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Ok if you really want to know... I'm currently in the process of building a high powered 4.6 engine and want to build the transmission so it has less power loss. It was supposed to be a secret but you just blew it out of the water!
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The thing is that you wouldn't ever want to build one of these transmissions for less parasitic loss for that purpose. The only time you would ever want to do what it woudl take to do that would be on a very low powered setup for fuel economy purposes only. And then the results would be about nil.
For a high power setup you want a build that will get your power to the ground without wasting it in heat from slippage anywhere. The above transmission could never do that because you would have raped out all of it's capability to.
And, in all honesty, a transmission to handle higher power is likely going to have more parasitic drag from all the extra clutches.
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The thing is that you wouldn't ever want to build one of these transmissions for less parasitic loss for that purpose. The only time you would ever want to do what it woudl take to do that would be on a very low powered setup for fuel economy purposes only. And then the results would be about nil.
For a high power setup you want a build that will get your power to the ground without wasting it in heat from slippage anywhere. The above transmission could never do that because you would have raped out all of it's capability to.
And, in all honesty, a transmission to handle higher power is likely going to have more parasitic drag from all the extra clutches.
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Oh, well now I know. Transmissions have always been a mystery to me, and I've always left them to the professionals. Guess this is one more thing I can erase from the "to-do-list".
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Jmod it, less restrictions means the oil pump is happier, and will last longer. Also with the oil pump having less resistance, it wont rob as much power from the input shaft.
Another food for thought is higher volume (less restriction) will mean stronger holding power applied to the clutches.
Another food for thought is higher volume (less restriction) will mean stronger holding power applied to the clutches.
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Jmod it, less restrictions means the oil pump is happier, and will last longer. Also with the oil pump having less resistance, it wont rob as much power from the input shaft.
Another food for thought is higher volume (less restriction) will mean stronger holding power applied to the clutches.
Another food for thought is higher volume (less restriction) will mean stronger holding power applied to the clutches.
Be careful with that. If you mess up the plate you cannot buy a new one without getting the whole rest of the valve body to go with it and those are over $300 from Ford.
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