when I started racing back in the late 1960s automatic trans cars were looked on as a lost cause mostly driven by guys that just either could not drive and shift a manual trans or want- to -be racers who were driving street cars,
everyone knew that a real race car required, a decent manual transmission, and a heavy duty clutch and flywheel with a decent blow proof bell housing, and there was just no way an automatic trans could stand up to the abuse of a race application, but things were changing and today they have made quantum leaps in durability and shifting consistency, to the point its hard for the best manual transmission cars to maintain equal performance.
Automatic Transmissions have come a long long way and drag racers in all classes have benefited from years of hard work and R&D
Automatic Quality, Reliability, Service & Support from many of the better vendors have all gotten better in recent years, obviously youll need to do some research on components, mods and whats needed in your particular application and the cost factor is as always a P.I.T.A. because you can,t just bolt in a stock auto trans in a high performance application and expect to go racing or not have durability issue but the days of building a 700-1000 hp engine and having a manual transmission be your only choice are long past, in fact the better, properly built racing auto transmissions generally have some advantages over the average manual transmissions now available as far as strength
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viewtopic.php?f=71&t=741&p=1048#p1048
http://www.atiracing.com/products/trans/index.htm
http://www.rosslertrans.com/
http://www.coanracing.com/
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http://extremeautomatics.com/th2004R.php#clutchTurbo400
back in the 1970s automatic transmissions were hardly considered ideal for performance use.
torque converters were not designed for nor would they hold up under huge stress loads
http://ggordon528.tripod.com/shop/cpe/clutchflite.html
http://www.lyonsperformance.com/clutch- ... db0ceb66b3
everyone knew that a real race car required, a decent manual transmission, and a heavy duty clutch and flywheel with a decent blow proof bell housing, and there was just no way an automatic trans could stand up to the abuse of a race application, but things were changing and today they have made quantum leaps in durability and shifting consistency, to the point its hard for the best manual transmission cars to maintain equal performance.
Automatic Transmissions have come a long long way and drag racers in all classes have benefited from years of hard work and R&D
Automatic Quality, Reliability, Service & Support from many of the better vendors have all gotten better in recent years, obviously youll need to do some research on components, mods and whats needed in your particular application and the cost factor is as always a P.I.T.A. because you can,t just bolt in a stock auto trans in a high performance application and expect to go racing or not have durability issue but the days of building a 700-1000 hp engine and having a manual transmission be your only choice are long past, in fact the better, properly built racing auto transmissions generally have some advantages over the average manual transmissions now available as far as strength
WATCH VIDEO's CLOSELY
viewtopic.php?f=71&t=741&p=1048#p1048
http://www.atiracing.com/products/trans/index.htm
http://www.rosslertrans.com/
http://www.coanracing.com/
viewtopic.php?f=71&t=7082&p=40009&hilit=racing+automatic#p40009
http://extremeautomatics.com/th2004R.php#clutchTurbo400
back in the 1970s automatic transmissions were hardly considered ideal for performance use.
torque converters were not designed for nor would they hold up under huge stress loads
http://ggordon528.tripod.com/shop/cpe/clutchflite.html
http://www.lyonsperformance.com/clutch- ... db0ceb66b3
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