Just got PI TC installed
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
dsouth - congrats. Biggest grin factor mod as you've discovered. 
The next step is the Supra LSD cuz that keeps the traction in balance and the VSC from piping up. And the gearing makes the car even quicker.
The next step is the Supra LSD cuz that keeps the traction in balance and the VSC from piping up. And the gearing makes the car even quicker.
haha so close!!
you can do the TC and not do the rearend if you wanted to.
theoretically, if you drive hard to where the converter is frequently in slip mode, and you don't have a cooler, you will burn the tranny fluid and it will lose it's lubricity. This will hurt the clutches in your tranny.
The cooler is only about $45 on top of the $700 torque converter, not counting installation costs. Why would anyone not use the cooler?
theoretically, if you drive hard to where the converter is frequently in slip mode, and you don't have a cooler, you will burn the tranny fluid and it will lose it's lubricity. This will hurt the clutches in your tranny.
The cooler is only about $45 on top of the $700 torque converter, not counting installation costs. Why would anyone not use the cooler?
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Please search for 'cooler' in this forum and you'll get lots of information
Instant answers, no waiting:Some examples I found right away
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...ghlight=cooler
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Many more out there...
I used my TC without a tranny cooler for probably a year with no detrimental results five years later. BUT as soon as I knew I was going to take my car to the track for extended hard driving, I put one in. It's cheap insurance - should have done it day one.
Last edited by DaveGS4; Aug 22, 2006 at 09:37 AM.
I hear ya Dave!
I must be harder on the go-pedal than I thought. I smelled heated tranny fluid within 2 weeks of my installation! .....ok, ok, it was admittedly while chasing my buddy around city streets in his 2005 Vette.
I put in my cooler asap after that!
I must be harder on the go-pedal than I thought. I smelled heated tranny fluid within 2 weeks of my installation! .....ok, ok, it was admittedly while chasing my buddy around city streets in his 2005 Vette.
I put in my cooler asap after that!
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