Yeah that is true so it does add mass to the power train but not all is on the crankshaft smoothing out the power pulses and the fluid is a lot lighter than the steel of a flywheel although I have never seen or picked up a torque converter to know exactly how much they weigh.
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Hi JanGeo
The total weight of the torque convertor isnt often realized as they are often mostly empty of oil when you are working with them. Dropping a 10 inch convertor onto your foot makes you say the worst words imaginable. :mad: |
Precisely!
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RH77 More: Matt, I like the idea of the weights -- like the tilt-a-whirl at the county fair. Intertia will cause things to go to the outer edge. Someone here mentioned about the OLD FE book where the late 70's cars had a rotating device on the transmission, where on decel, there wouldn't be compression/engine-braking. Where would this fit in? It would be great to pick your foot off of the gas and let the car coast instead of slow-down in an automatic (without shifting to N). |
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Hi rh77 - ?Someone here mentioned about the OLD FE book where the late 70's cars had a rotating device on the transmission, where on decel, there wouldn't be compression/engine-braking. Where would this fit in??
That would have been me that said that. It was a mod done on a 70's V8 to improve FE. From what I understood was that it was a freewheeling clutch placed between the gearboxes output shaft and the propshaft. This made for coasting without the engine braking effect. It didnt require any controll from the driver , just take your foot off the gas. I guess it was done with parts from a 4X4 free weeling hub.(some machining tho) This is the easiest way to set it up on a rear drive car , but placing a new hub on each drive wheel would be better as it even stop the axles from rotating. In practice tho , one axle may continue to drag a little if the hubs rotating resistance is differnt to the one on the other side. This could lead to greater wear in the diffs hemishpere. Same applies to a front drive car. |
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