Callaway TH400 with overdrive?
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Melting Slicks
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Re: Callaway TH400 with overdrive? (Bob86ZZ4)
Thanks for the reply, but I'm talking about, well one time in my vette I had the accelerator all the way down and when I shifted from 1st to 2nd the back end slid about 6 inches to the right, kinda like a Fishtail. What I'm saying is if you were to do this in a manual Shift Automatic, will the same thing happen? :confused:
Drifting
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Re: Callaway TH400 with overdrive? (Light84vette)
Loosing traction when you shift is just that, loosing traction. It can happen to anybody, manual or auto, if you shift under hard acceleration and don't have enough traction when the shift happens. My car is up on my lift now for the winter so I can't get into it to measure. It is very well positioned tho.
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Re: Callaway TH400 with overdrive? (Bob86ZZ4)
And you used a B&M shifter with the Th400 and the position it sits in is how it came out? Well if its in a good enough postition to have good shifts then thats alright with me. :yesnod: Do you know the max power a TH400 could take? Is 800HP the max or can it take more than that?
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Re: Callaway TH400 with overdrive? (Bob86ZZ4)
The best way to do it is put in a ratchet shifter, like the B&M Megashifter or something similar. Have you th400 built with a manual valve body forward pattern so you have engine braking, unless the only thing you ever want to do is drag race, in that case build it with a reverse pattern and no engine braking
Reason I am asking this is because I am interested in getting a manual valve body for my 700R4 to be able to have better control over the shifting when I am roadracing and the Manual valve bodies I have seen for 700R4 are reverse patterns?
:cheers:
Drifting
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Re: Callaway TH400 with overdrive? (Cratzy)
Cratzy: Watch out!!! I don't know for sure but I had a manual valve body reverse pattern 700r4 and it had no engine braking. When you let off the gas it would just freewheel, it wouldn't slow down one bit. If you down shifted it would just keep coasting, no slowing down. Maybe somebody makes a manual valve body reverse pattern for the 700r4 that provides engine braking but I don't know about it. I am told that there are no manual valve body's for the th400 with reverse pattern that provide engine braking. All the manual valve body's that provide engine braking are a forward pattern. This isn't any big deal as far as I'm concerned. When I start out I just ratchet it down into 1st and then go from there.
Light84: I got my th400 and converter from http://www.dynamicconverters.com. He told me he has several customers running 1000 h/p reliably with his th400's. I would think somebody could break a th400 with less but overall I just know that the th400 is way stronger than a 700r4 and much less money to build also, when you do manage to break it.
Light84: I got my th400 and converter from http://www.dynamicconverters.com. He told me he has several customers running 1000 h/p reliably with his th400's. I would think somebody could break a th400 with less but overall I just know that the th400 is way stronger than a 700r4 and much less money to build also, when you do manage to break it.
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Re: Callaway TH400 with overdrive? (Bob86ZZ4)
LOL Thanks, I'll consider them first and probably buy from them when I need to get a Th400 to handle the power from my engine, thanks for your help. :cheers:
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Re: Callaway TH400 with overdrive? (Bob86ZZ4)
Cratzy: Watch out!!! I don't know for sure but I had a manual valve body reverse pattern 700r4 and it had no engine braking. When you let off the gas it would just freewheel, it wouldn't slow down one bit. If you down shifted it would just keep coasting, no slowing down. Maybe somebody makes a manual valve body reverse pattern for the 700r4 that provides engine braking but I don't know about it. I am told that there are no manual valve body's for the th400 with reverse pattern that provide engine braking. All the manual valve body's that provide engine braking are a forward pattern. This isn't any big deal as far as I'm concerned. When I start out I just ratchet it down into 1st and then go from there.
Light84: I got my th400 and converter from http://www.dynamicconverters.com. He told me he has several customers running 1000 h/p reliably with his th400's. I would think somebody could break a th400 with less but overall I just know that the th400 is way stronger than a 700r4 and much less money to build also, when you do manage to break it.
Light84: I got my th400 and converter from http://www.dynamicconverters.com. He told me he has several customers running 1000 h/p reliably with his th400's. I would think somebody could break a th400 with less but overall I just know that the th400 is way stronger than a 700r4 and much less money to build also, when you do manage to break it.
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Re: Callaway TH400 with overdrive? (Light84vette)
Umm that site dont work, has the company changed its site to something different? :confused:
Jay
