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Old 01-15-2009, 11:56 PM   #17 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
You can also play with the transmission itself to create manual valve body, if you wanted to. Also, you can change the stall speed of the torque convertor, but that will affect your TC lockup as well. *You won't have it anymore*.
Is there a reason to have a torque converter anymore? The electric motor doesn't stall, and you could probably live without the torque multiplication (especially since your best torque is near 0 RPM.) I could imagine shifts being a bit harsher, but maybe you could zero out the throttle pot during the shift so the transmission isn't under load.
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