Quick torque converter question

I'm a little embarrassed, but I can't remember this. What difference does the diameter make? I remember it changes the tightness of it but I can't remember if bigger or smaller is better. Does anyone know of an article I could read about this? I not only like to know what is better, but I like to know why the certain part is better I like to know stuff when it comes to motors/trans. Any help would be great, just trying to remember. I can't for the life of me.

As a general, very loose rule, smaller = looser...fwiw.

Okay, tank you.

Treeyasoon wrote:As a general, very loose rule, smaller = looser...fwiw.

Don't confuse this with women though........

Maddmattmustangs wrote:

Treeyasoon wrote:As a general, very loose rule, smaller = looser...fwiw.

Don't confuse this with women though........

aye ey cap'n!

Maddmattmustangs wrote:Don't confuse this with women though........

Not true! My first wife was 4'11" and very, very loose. Quite the slut if I do say so myself. Sorry, no pictures. Havent seen her in 25yrs

I read ALL of TCI's tech page yesterday. I understand it now.

Curt wrote:

Maddmattmustangs wrote:Don't confuse this with women though........

Not true! My first wife was 4'11" and very, very loose. Quite the slut if I do say so myself. Sorry, no pictures. Havent seen her in 25yrs

Haha! I was referring to the diameter of the input opening, not the overall length

bb429power wrote:I read ALL of TCI's tech page yesterday. I understand it now.

Tci's tech pages are pretty good reads.

Maddmattmustangs wrote:

Curt wrote:

Maddmattmustangs wrote:Don't confuse this with women though........

Not true! My first wife was 4'11" and very, very loose. Quite the slut if I do say so myself. Sorry, no pictures. Havent seen her in 25yrs

Haha! I was referring to the diameter of the input opening, not the overall length

You starting to be like Jon

That could be interesting... I'm already planning to run alky on the 557

Maddmattmustangs wrote:That could be interesting... I'm already planning to run alky on the 557

It would be cool to tune a car to run on beer, but A. not enough alcohol content and B. I would always be drinking my race fuel. Need to run it on moonshine for best results, but then I wont have moonshine!

I'm in the same delima. I just toasted my tranny and it's in the shop to get looked over. My issue was a rookie mistake of swapping in a 1/4" midplate in place of my 1/8" midplate and not shimming the converter accordingly. Anyway, while it's in the shop I asked them to up my stall a bit to 4500-5000. Keep in mind this is in my 466 powered 3000lb ranger that runs 200' mud bog pits. My old converter was a 10" ACC unit and the tranny guy said to make it to stall where I wanted reliably I need to ditch the 10" and swap in an 8" converter. I'm so confused now I don't know which way to go. I thought smaller meant tighter. I'm confused!!!

kjett wrote:I'm in the same delima. I just toasted my tranny and it's in the shop to get looked over. My issue was a rookie mistake of swapping in a 1/4" midplate in place of my 1/8" midplate and not shimming the converter accordingly. Anyway, while it's in the shop I asked them to up my stall a bit to 4500-5000. Keep in mind this is in my 466 powered 3000lb ranger that runs 200' mud bog pits. My old converter was a 10" ACC unit and the tranny guy said to make it to stall where I wanted reliably I need to ditch the 10" and swap in an 8" converter. I'm so confused now I don't know which way to go. I thought smaller meant tighter. I'm confused!!!

Did the ACC work good? I wanted to get one of their boss hog converters. I think bigger is tighter because it takes longer for the fluid to get back to where it needs to go Maybe I took TCI's article the wrong way, I'll re look that part.

It worked good on my stock motor, but I never got a real chance to see how well it worked on the new motor. I had a rookie mistake and didn't shim my converter clearance properly and smoked my tranny. The old converter was a 3500

kjett wrote:It worked good on my stock motor, but I never got a real chance to see how well it worked on the new motor. I had a rookie mistake and didn't shim my converter clearance properly and smoked my tranny. The old converter was a 3500

The rookie mistakes are the ones that get you. I still don't know what happened with my brothers c6. We pulled the engine and trans to replace a seal, put it back in then it wouldn't move. We were told the converter needed to be spun on, I thought they did that. They said they did, but my dad was tightening the hell out of it to get the engine to match up with the tranny. I think he was blaming the pin that aligns them.

I"ll probably stay away from the boss hog and get a hughes.

Had that happen last year as well. The input shaft wasn't fully seated and when we slid the converter over it bottomed out on the shaft but not al the way in the pump. Made my clearances all messed up when we tried to bolt the tranny to the motor. Might want to give that a look see to make sure you don't have the same or similar issue.

We had another c6 sitting around so we swapped out the pump and we were good to go. We would have used the spare tranny but it wouldn't work with the transfer case.