Historically a stick car will always out MPH a slush box.. The question is do
you have more torque at the rear wheels at a lower rpm. The converter slippage
might be the same as running too much gear.
Dave
Dick J wrote:
>
> Okay, here goes. When I put my actual speed and RPM to the computer along
>with tire sze, gears, and all that stuff, I come up with about 6% slippage.
>142 mph at 6250 RPM should have been right at 150 mph. If I eliminate the
>slippage (go to a std trans) the car isn't going to magically pick up the
>missing 8 MPH. It apparently only had the HP to pull it to 6250 RPM with the
>combination of weight, rolling resistance, wind resistance, slippage, etc.,
>that was present at the time. If anything, the motor will probably drop down a
>couple hundred RPM and the speed still be about the same. Am I right?
>
> Dick J
>
> In East Texas
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