Anyone with TH400 using a scatter shield or blanket?
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Anyone with TH400 using a scatter shield or blanket?
The new stroker should be putting out around 450h.p. before nitrous and around 525 with nitrous. I don't want to lose any toes, so I want to know what type to get. Also, plese comment on the install procedures.
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I've been thinking about buying a shield for my TH350. Are you talking about one of these?
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku
However, from my experiences with shrapnel, I don't think you would only have to worry about losing your toes if your transmission decided to blow up on you - especially since the the transmission is sitting right next to your right thigh.
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku
However, from my experiences with shrapnel, I don't think you would only have to worry about losing your toes if your transmission decided to blow up on you - especially since the the transmission is sitting right next to your right thigh.
Last edited by Victor; Apr 26, 2006 at 06:46 AM.
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Originally Posted by Victor
I've been thinking about buying a shield for my TH350. Are you talking about one of these?
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku
However, from my experiences with shrapnel, I don't think you would only have to worry about losing your toes if your transmission decided to blow up on you - especially since the the transmission is sitting right next to your right thigh.
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku
However, from my experiences with shrapnel, I don't think you would only have to worry about losing your toes if your transmission decided to blow up on you - especially since the the transmission is sitting right next to your right thigh.
As far as the toes goes, I've just heard usually of foot/toe injuries. I'm shure that if the whole thing went that stuff could go just about anywhere.
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Originally Posted by iNdigo
Just don't shift into neutral at 5K RPM, you'll be fine : P
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I just finished installing a shift kit on my TH350. From a guy who knows absolutely nothing about transmissions (even though I took it apart and put it back together I still don't understand how it works), I'm not sure how much extra HP and TQ would actually affect your transmission. If you had more TQ than the transmission could handle, the clutch plates would be more prone to slipping and then they would deteriorate sooner. I don't think this alone would casue the type of catastrophic failure that would cause a transmission to "blow up" and send schrapnel everywhere.
I think it would just be freak luck that one of the many planetaries and carriers inside of the transmission comes out of alignment, causing the other gears to trip on themselves that would make a transmission blow up. I don't think it would take just a lot of HP and TQ from your engine to do it on its own. Then again, I'm not a transmission expert by any means.
I'm just paranoid sometimes and I don't see any reason not to install a scatter shield.
I think it would just be freak luck that one of the many planetaries and carriers inside of the transmission comes out of alignment, causing the other gears to trip on themselves that would make a transmission blow up. I don't think it would take just a lot of HP and TQ from your engine to do it on its own. Then again, I'm not a transmission expert by any means.
I'm just paranoid sometimes and I don't see any reason not to install a scatter shield.
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Originally Posted by Victor
I'm just paranoid sometimes and I don't see any reason not to install a scatter shield.
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I personally have not seen many AUTOs that have exploded, the manual clutch trannies can come apart rather horrifically, something about a 5000rpm drop of the clutch (clutches are usually quite heavy) that really tears things apart.
I have a stock TH400 (OK, it has a B&M Shift kit and 9.5" converter) that has taken some extreme abuse from my 406 for the past serveral years, and it is still going strong.
I have a stock TH400 (OK, it has a B&M Shift kit and 9.5" converter) that has taken some extreme abuse from my 406 for the past serveral years, and it is still going strong.
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Originally Posted by litevette
Maybe I'm the same. If you do that install soon, please let me know how it went. Thanks in advance!
With the transmission in the car I would think that it might be tricky to slide the top part of the shield over the transmission. I don't remember how much space there was/is between the tranny and the body.
It might be a month or two before I get this far.
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VETDRMS: If you are running those 11.7's then I might be o.k. I'm projectiing mid 11's so I wouldn't be running much harder than you.
Victor: Yeah man, sounds like you will have an easy install. I geuss that if my motor is out, I could pull the tranny again too.
SIMMO: Yowsers! Sounds like a fity-cal machine gun went through there!!!
Victor: Yeah man, sounds like you will have an easy install. I geuss that if my motor is out, I could pull the tranny again too.
SIMMO: Yowsers! Sounds like a fity-cal machine gun went through there!!!
