Drivetrain Who Makes A Good Torque Converter?

95Vert383AOD

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I'm not made of money (yet). So my budget would be $750 max for one. I would prefer a custom piece rather than an off the shelf.

I've done alot of research and i hear good and bad about every brand. I want something that will hold 650+ hp.

My transmission is a manual valve body AOD with upgrades. The converter needs to be a Non-Lockup.

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
Chris

 

88LX5.Oh

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At mine and my dads shop, we get Dacco torque converters for all our customers (probably 98% of customer vehicles are stock or very mild builds). Dad's drag car has a 3200-3600 stall in his C4 and it's flat out awesome. I have a very mild stall in my truck that's lasted me 2 years and it has a mild 351 so Dacco is nice. Plus they give a 12 month 12,000 mile warranty if I remember correctly. Their diesel torque converters are also amazing. My dad's Cummins is putting out about 1000 ft. lbs of torque and has a triple disk low stall converter, it's holding up just fine.

And IIRC, dad paid way under $750 for his converter.

Give Dacco a call and see what they can do for you.
http://www.daccoinc.com/

Also, I've heard some good things about TCI. Haven't had much experience with them since we deal with Dacco, though.

 

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http://www.edgeracingconverters.com/

He was aawesome to deal with. Got back to my emails every time within at least 8-12 hours being the very most, other emails were rapid responses. I know a lot of guys on the boards have used him and had nothing but luck. My converter, so far so good. Got a nice t-shirt out of the deal, too!!! LOL

All seriousness, he has a great product and exceptional customer service. You give him (I'm completely drawing a blank on his first name right now) what your combo is and he will spec a Converter just for that. The raceshop I frequent said the converter felt a little too tight and he said no problem, send it back and he would loosen it up for me. Overall great experience

 

95Vert383AOD

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inphiniti said:

http://www.edgeracingconverters.com/

He was aawesome to deal with. Got back to my emails every time within at least 8-12 hours being the very most, other emails were rapid responses. I know a lot of guys on the boards have used him and had nothing but luck. My converter, so far so good. Got a nice t-shirt out of the deal, too!!! LOL

All seriousness, he has a great product and exceptional customer service. You give him (I'm completely drawing a blank on his first name right now) what your combo is and he will spec a Converter just for that. The raceshop I frequent said the converter felt a little too tight and he said no problem, send it back and he would loosen it up for me. Overall great experience

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I sent him an e-mail over the weekend with my specs. No response yet. Maybe i'll call.

I was using a 2400 stall B&m from my old 302 build. Tci Recommended to me a $539 3000-3400 stall and said that i will also need their hardened input shaft for another $211.

I'll also check out Dacco too.

Precision Industries sells triple disk converters for north of $1000....Can't do it. lol

 

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inphiniti

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I think my Edge was right around $550ish give or take. it was almost 3 years ago and i dont have my binder near me to look.

 

95Vert383AOD

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I'll give him a call tomorrow when i'm at work.

 

srtthis

the guy doing it does every local racers rear end

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For that price I'd look into a pro torque single disk lock up. Triple disk will run around a grand same price as my PI triple disk.

Pro torque will build one to your needs just gotta call and talk to them

 

95Vert383AOD

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srtthis said:

For that price I'd look into a pro torque single disk lock up. Triple disk will run around a grand same price as my PI triple disk.

Pro torque will build one to your needs just gotta call and talk to them

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I was told i couldn't run a lockup converter. I have a manual valve body AOD. I was looking at the PI converters too. I just want something that will reliably hold 500-600hp

 

srtthis

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I'd go over that with joe... The guy knows converters. Personally I don't see why you wouldn't run a lock up converter. Helps with streetablity and will help it pull up top

 

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Edge Racing or DirtyDog Performance are two of the best

 

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Andre (owner) at Edge Racing Converters gets my vote as well, great product, extremely knowledgable with the AOD set-ups, never been disappointed with anything from him.

 

95Vert383AOD

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I called talked to Andre. I'm going with a Street Edge converter with a stall around 3200. Should be a hell of a difference from the B&M holeshot 2400.