sdaver
06-10-2003, 10:24
Well lets get straight to it....I drove last Wednesday afternoon to Fort Walton Beech Florda
and Left my Truck with Joe At Suncoast Convertors. On Thursday and Friday they installed their triple disc torque convertor and clutch pack upgrade kit. Joe and I have had several conversations about this over the last few months and soon as the parts were availible I decided to have mine done. Joe suggested that I have the power levels set to where I thought I would run on the performance end. So after a few calls to some diesel page friends I came up with a juice/pressure box combo that has yielded 420+ conservatively at the rear wheels. Needless to say this combo would limp my stock tranny at will. Joe and I drove my truck and noted the areas we felt it was slipping (third and fifth mostly). Then I drove their 03 3500 dually with the transmission upgrade and a hot juice/tts reflash combo for power. The transmisson was fabulous. It handled the additional power with ease.......no jerking no slamming NO LIMP!!! .....just smooth shifting....needless to say I was sold. I rented a truck and drove back to Tuscaloosa (4.5hrs)and could not hardly wait until Friday. Friday afternoon I picked up my truck and it was raining........It is not real easy to test a truck with that kind of power in the rain, in fact its impossible. So I drove very conservatively to Pensacola to meet my family down for the weekend. The truck shifted flawlessly(under a very conservative foot). Saturday yielded more rain. Joe performs a full computer reset of the transmission when upgrade is performed and several upshifts and down shift have to be performed to allow the tranny to learn the new power levels. Since the weather was not cooperating I just drove the truck moderately on Saturday. Sunday I left Pensacola early heading for Commerce Ga (385 miles). About 45 miles from Pensacola I hit dry pavement.........rolled into the throttle in fifth at 70 mph..... 30 pounds of boost (with the wastegate unblocked)and acceleration like never before. Not even a hint of slip. Slowed down and made a few runs at 75 % throttle... smooth shifting. It is really amazing how much slip the stock tranny has and how much more power you feel when the slip is gone. Later that day I arrived in Commerce dropped off a very valuble package and started the trip to Tuscaloosa(200 plus miles). Made a full power run getting on the interstate. Extremely fast acceleration smooth shifting and no limp or slippage. Monday I drove the truck all day in mixed highway and city situations. No bad side effects to report just smooth shifting. The tranny behaves very similar in normal driving to stock transmission with very slight firmer shift(which I like) and a more noticeable lockup in fifth which I refer to now as my new sixth gear. I now have close to 1000 miles on the tranny and its shifting great. I have the old clutch packs and some cool pictures of the triple lock convertor hope to post all soon :D :D :D :D dave
and Left my Truck with Joe At Suncoast Convertors. On Thursday and Friday they installed their triple disc torque convertor and clutch pack upgrade kit. Joe and I have had several conversations about this over the last few months and soon as the parts were availible I decided to have mine done. Joe suggested that I have the power levels set to where I thought I would run on the performance end. So after a few calls to some diesel page friends I came up with a juice/pressure box combo that has yielded 420+ conservatively at the rear wheels. Needless to say this combo would limp my stock tranny at will. Joe and I drove my truck and noted the areas we felt it was slipping (third and fifth mostly). Then I drove their 03 3500 dually with the transmission upgrade and a hot juice/tts reflash combo for power. The transmisson was fabulous. It handled the additional power with ease.......no jerking no slamming NO LIMP!!! .....just smooth shifting....needless to say I was sold. I rented a truck and drove back to Tuscaloosa (4.5hrs)and could not hardly wait until Friday. Friday afternoon I picked up my truck and it was raining........It is not real easy to test a truck with that kind of power in the rain, in fact its impossible. So I drove very conservatively to Pensacola to meet my family down for the weekend. The truck shifted flawlessly(under a very conservative foot). Saturday yielded more rain. Joe performs a full computer reset of the transmission when upgrade is performed and several upshifts and down shift have to be performed to allow the tranny to learn the new power levels. Since the weather was not cooperating I just drove the truck moderately on Saturday. Sunday I left Pensacola early heading for Commerce Ga (385 miles). About 45 miles from Pensacola I hit dry pavement.........rolled into the throttle in fifth at 70 mph..... 30 pounds of boost (with the wastegate unblocked)and acceleration like never before. Not even a hint of slip. Slowed down and made a few runs at 75 % throttle... smooth shifting. It is really amazing how much slip the stock tranny has and how much more power you feel when the slip is gone. Later that day I arrived in Commerce dropped off a very valuble package and started the trip to Tuscaloosa(200 plus miles). Made a full power run getting on the interstate. Extremely fast acceleration smooth shifting and no limp or slippage. Monday I drove the truck all day in mixed highway and city situations. No bad side effects to report just smooth shifting. The tranny behaves very similar in normal driving to stock transmission with very slight firmer shift(which I like) and a more noticeable lockup in fifth which I refer to now as my new sixth gear. I now have close to 1000 miles on the tranny and its shifting great. I have the old clutch packs and some cool pictures of the triple lock convertor hope to post all soon :D :D :D :D dave