This is what I mean about getting answers that don't directly address my question.
Plus I love being taken out of context......
So, simplifying......
You drive at 70mph and your engine is running at 3000 rpm. Your converter stall (the theoretical point where pump and turbine speed are the same?) is 2500 rpm. Things are happy, right?
You add an overdrive that drops your rpm below the 2500 rpm, then isn't your converter "slipping" which in turn creates HEAT?
Isn't this why modern AODs have lock up converters?
Yes you will get that problem of heat build up with a TC that was built cheaply or like junk.
Again right back to only using specific TC builders as to not have that problem, i didn't answer you out of
context i just didn't bother to explain in
detail why a better TC does not kill your trans when operated below the lu area as DJVcuda did with detail.
More detail same answer, don't use a cheap or junk tc and you won't have anything to worry about, and you'll get better perf and mpg.
For 3K, I can add nitrous and go faster and still have plenty of gas money.
Well i didn't add the GV to go faster, i added it to knock down the gear after already owning one in my truck, then bought another added it to the car to knock down the 4.89, and then added another to the other car to knock down the 4.30
During a day at the track where there was no one around and making passes got boring i had played with the gv and split 2nd just for no reason it picked up 8hdt, so for $2400, not $3000 i knocked down my 4.89 on the street and at the track just for no reason split 2nd and p'u 8hdts doing nothing at all but pushing a button.
I can go to the track and for no reason most likely p/u another few splitting 1st, haven't tried it yet but i can.
I already have n2o in everything so all i had left was gear splitting, something that couldn't be done at all with od trans that never gives you the opportunity.
But doesn't the better first gear ratio of most AODs counter this "splitting"? I could see where first gear splitting might be good in my Jeep if I was pulling something out of the mud. Oh, I can't install a GV on my Jeep and use it in 4 wheel drive.......
Gear splitting in my experience has always helped, i have 3 of them behind 3 different trans and gear ratios.
I have a GV on my truck and have never had a reason to use it in 4x, however i have found going 1, 2, splitting 2nd, 3rd, splitting 3rd and 4th faster then just using 1,2,3,4 in the truck, towing and not towing.
Isn't the base GV unit the same and it just uses different adapters for different applications? Also, don't you have to also have to shorten your drive shaft because of the extra length? Doesn't it also alter your joint angles?
They are similar in outside appearance, there are different adapters and internal shafts and housings depending on use.
Shortening a shaft isn't a problem, fixing angles isn't a problem, and any vehicle for performance should have angles adjusted to 0 or accordingly either way.
(And they are pretty dang fun, rowing your own that is).
