Help with 60' times

I just looked up Redneck performance and it was ok for 400 hp street cars but sucked for high hp cars. There are two things you never go cheap on: heads and converters. You get what you pay for, a $300.00 dollar converter will never do what it is supposed to.

Look into a coan or precision . I drive the 4500 stall around town. Off boost and light throttle it comes off a light at 1000 rpm. On the brake it goes right to 4450 rpm and spools the turbo fast without a two step.
 
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TRBOBUICK said:
I just looked up Redneck performance and it was ok for 400 hp street cars but sucked for high hp cars. There are two things you never go cheap on: heads and converters. You get what you pay for, a $300.00 dollar converter will never do what it is supposed to.

Look into a coan or precision . I drive the 4500 stall around town. Off boost and light throttle it comes off a light at 1000 rpm. On the brake it goes right to 4450 rpm and spools the turbo fast without a two step.
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X2... I tried looking in their feed back and it talked about mud trucks and stuff.
The fact is: you posted on here for advice, the advice is, ditch the converter. I'd bet money you'd be satisfied! It's like Edge racing converters-Good guys to deal with will make an awesome converter for 500hp street engines and below, but even they will tell ya to go with something else for 7,8,900 HP street driven vehicles. Just my .02
 
jameser, we are not trying to look down on you or bust your balls . My answers are out of frustration from converters in general. Ive gone the cheap route just to have it explode and take out a rare stage 1 buick transmission. Ive gone cheap and the car would 60 foot good but have no top end. Ive driven cars with 4000 stalls and they had to go up to 4000 rpm just to move. I finally broke down and spent 750 bucks on a precision converter. BEST.CHOICE.EVER. The car picked up mph, it spooled faster and it actully drove as nice as the stone stock converter that my car came with.
 
TRBOBUICK said:
jameser, we are not trying to look down on you or bust your balls . My answers are out of frustration from converters in general. Ive gone the cheap route just to have it explode and take out a rare stage 1 buick transmission. Ive gone cheap and the car would 60 foot good but have no top end. Ive driven cars with 4000 stalls and they had to go up to 4000 rpm just to move. I finally broke down and spent 750 bucks on a precision converter. BEST.CHOICE.EVER. The car picked up mph, it spooled faster and it actully drove as nice as the stone stock converter that my car came with.
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is it spinning the tires or boggin the motor? if its spinning the tires its not the converter. if its boggin the motor then it is.
 
I've had 3 converters in this car a B&M then PI and now Redneck performance All with the exact same results. If someone can guarantee a new converter will put me in the 1.4s let me know. I dont have the funds to buy a converter again just to get the same results. My brother now uses the PI converter I had and his 60' is high 1.5s.
 
If the car hooked and you only went 1.68 60 foot it means one of two things: Your engine only makes 400 hp or the converter is too tight. Thats all it could be.

And if they will restall it ask them for 4200 or so. Did you have them build it for you or did you get it off the shelf ?
 
jameser said:
I've had 3 converters in this car a B&M then PI and now Redneck performance All with the exact same results. If someone can guarantee a new converter will put me in the 1.4s let me know. I dont have the funds to buy a converter again just to get the same results. My brother now uses the PI converter I had and his 60' is high 1.5s.
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i dont think its hooking well. i dont think its the converter. 1.5 is not hooking. you should be going low 1.4s hi 1.3s all day. if it was dead hooking and only going that 60ft then i would say converter but if its spinning the tires its not gonna 60ft. how old are tires, what psi are they set at? who set your pinion angle?
 
johnquick302 said:
i dont think its hooking well. i dont think its the converter. 1.5 is not hooking. you should be going low 1.4s hi 1.3s all day. if it was dead hooking and only going that 60ft then i would say converter but if its spinning the tires its not gonna 60ft. how old are tires, what psi are they set at? who set your pinion angle?
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He said it hooked at ubly off the footbrake and only went 1.68 .
 
TRBOBUICK said:
If the car hooked and you only went 1.68 60 foot it means one of two things: Your engine only makes 400 hp or the converter is too tight. Thats all it could be.

And if they will restall it ask them for 4200 or so. Did you have them build it for you or did you get it off the shelf ?
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I had them build the converter to my specs.
 
TRBOBUICK said:
He said it hooked at ubly off the footbrake and only went 1.68 .
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1.68 is not hooking. if you never went 1.3s or something it probably would feel like it hooked but i doubt it really did. if its going 140mph it has enough power to pull a tight converter better than a 1.68 i dont care if its a 2000stall converter.
 
johnquick302 said:
i dont think its hooking well. i dont think its the converter. 1.5 is not hooking. you should be going low 1.4s hi 1.3s all day. if it was dead hooking and only going that 60ft then i would say converter but if its spinning the tires its not gonna 60ft. how old are tires, what psi are they set at? who set your pinion angle?
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The tires are a couple years old, I set pressure from 16 down to 13 but usually leave them at 14 psi. I set the pinion angle using an alignment rack with weaver plates and a calibrated digital angle finder from my work.
 
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