Hello.I was just wanting to know if anyone is running a higher stahl converter than stock behind a inline 250 or 292 and was happy with it? I have read that it is a good idea to go with a little more stahl on a inline than a v8 but have yet to find someone actually doing it. Thanks in advance.
Interesting, a stall is used to get a large cammed engine up into the rpm range. Don't the 250 and 292 make plenty of torque down low? Wouldn't you be losing out on the low end grunt? I'm not knocking it, just want to know more about it, the only in liner I've driven was a 65 impala with a home ported head and exhaust manifold, everything else stock with a p/g, it ran really well in traffic and got good mileage.
A smaller displacement engine needs a smaller torque converter to get the same stall speed, as a bigger engine. Maybe that's what you're thinking? "Stahl" is the name of a person. "stall" speed is how we tell how "loose" a torque converter is
That's where im coming from(what squirrel said).I haven't read or seen anyone that has done it ? Thanks for the replies.
If you check some torque converter catalogs the 250 6 cyl cars used the same converter as 350 Turbo equipped Corvettes stall was 2200 RPM. Check these guys out 50 years in the business: http://www.roadrunnerconverters.com/gm-transmission-torque-converters.htm
Used to be the trick was to use a Vega converter. It was real small and had a high stall speed behind a V8. But it wasn't very strong. Pretty much all of the early high stall converters were made out of small diameter units from cars with small engines. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
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