The question of converters.

Oldskoolrob

Active Member
Hi transmission gurus. While I'm waiting on parts and time to get into the shed to continue my conversion I'm trying to figure out what bits to put together. I may need to get a different converter but I'm finding hard to figure out if there's a point to getting anything other than standard. My concern is wether the weight of the vehicle will reduce the stall too much in a standard BW65 converter. Specs are standard 3.5 (fresh cam but pretty standard grind - 110 deg separation .400ish lift@50 on both, Edelbrock Performer/Holley 390), BW65, Diff ratio (Hilux) will be 3.5 or 3.08 (if I can find one - not guaranteed. At the moment it's 4.11:1 but I'm confident that's not staying!) not sure if I'll end up with 24" or 25" tyres yet (waiting to hear back on rim-size for my brake upgrade) and vehicle weight will be around 920-950kg. Would a standard stall (1800-2200) be ok despite the lighter car and taller gears?
Cheers,
Rob.
 
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I'd do the conversion and test it before buying a different converter, the chances are the standard one is going to be fine anyway. If not change it then, but be careful, I have a mate with a very lightweight hotrod and he bought a hokey-cokey performance converter from the States and had nothing but problems with it, so much so that he ended up getting a standard one put back in.
 
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