Well..... took my expy to the track today and my luck finally ran out.
Good news is I will now be able to identify the weakest link in my tranny. Bad news is I have no idea what it is yet. Will contact my "tranny guy" to question him and will have to pull tranny and have it rebuilt hopefully with stronger internals.
I raised my boost to 14psi and tranny objected. Was pulling hard in 1st to about 5,600 rpms felt like it shifted hard and then just popped. RPMs hit the limiter and I lifted of course. Coasted it to the finish line in overdrive to a 15.023 @ 76.71 mph. Woohoo!
On the return road motor sounded good and I still seemed to have 2nd gear. But with the window down I could hear faint whine. Back in the pits tried to locate source of whine but could not. It only does it when the tranny is in gear did not notice any noise in reverse. 2nd gear is working but....... It does not shift into 2nd till rpms are much higher and then it slams it in enough to chirp tires. This at light throttle. Has me baffled but I am not a tranny guy so.... But it appears the bands are working and the planetaries must be good or else I would be missing a gear or two?!
I actually was able to drive it home. Over an hour away and through the mountains very gently!!
Well knew it was going to happen eventually since I exceeding the torque capacity by a bit. The tranny had been working flawlessly up until this point. Working great until she broke. lol.
Good news is I will now be able to identify the weakest link in my tranny. Bad news is I have no idea what it is yet. Will contact my "tranny guy" to question him and will have to pull tranny and have it rebuilt hopefully with stronger internals.
I raised my boost to 14psi and tranny objected. Was pulling hard in 1st to about 5,600 rpms felt like it shifted hard and then just popped. RPMs hit the limiter and I lifted of course. Coasted it to the finish line in overdrive to a 15.023 @ 76.71 mph. Woohoo!
On the return road motor sounded good and I still seemed to have 2nd gear. But with the window down I could hear faint whine. Back in the pits tried to locate source of whine but could not. It only does it when the tranny is in gear did not notice any noise in reverse. 2nd gear is working but....... It does not shift into 2nd till rpms are much higher and then it slams it in enough to chirp tires. This at light throttle. Has me baffled but I am not a tranny guy so.... But it appears the bands are working and the planetaries must be good or else I would be missing a gear or two?!
I actually was able to drive it home. Over an hour away and through the mountains very gently!!
Well knew it was going to happen eventually since I exceeding the torque capacity by a bit. The tranny had been working flawlessly up until this point. Working great until she broke. lol.
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