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Originally Posted by JohnnyGrey
Simply selecting the gear will start the car, there's no need to lock the converter. I'd choose top gear for this.
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Originally Posted by JohnnyGrey
If you can do 2200 rpm @ 55mph, bump starting at 10mph will crank the engine at 400 RPM, which should be enough to revive it. Bump starting at lower gears will be increasingly violent, especially when you don't have the PWM modulation the ECU does.
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Say what now? Don't lock the converter but you will have violent starts without the PWM, and who cares when you are performing possibly destructive testing on the auto trans anyway so you have an excuse to swap in a stick shift?!?