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Old Apr 27, 2008 | 11:43 PM
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Well one of the other guys turned up the chip and fried his stock tranny, luckily someone had a trailer that had room. He had to take a run at it to get on though and his truck wouldn't move unless he had it over 2100 RPM. I'm not exactly sure what else was done to the truck though.
 
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Old Apr 28, 2008 | 10:50 AM
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sounds like the torque converter got hot and swelled.

John, the best thing to do would be to go out and run your edge up to the point to where things begin to slip, then back down a little and see what it gets you on the dyno.

One thing that my truck will do is if I have my TST on anything above 6(135hp) my clutch lets go quite easily. however with my smarty on #9 (170hp) my clutch holds on. . .I dont know why. . .the low end of the smarty is intense, but the upper end does leave alot to be desired, howeevr my TST's bottom end is non existant below 1500rpm. but get up to 2K and you better hold on if my tires are gripping. I have tried SW# 6 and my TST on 4/1, that setting gives me somewhere around 500hprunning the numbers. my clutch held on while I passed cars sideways on the entrance ramp to the interstate
 
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Old Apr 28, 2008 | 06:11 PM
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Maybe the smarty power comes on smoother so it doesn't shock it as much?
 
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Old Apr 28, 2008 | 07:07 PM
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I dont know. . .that could be it since the TST fuels rather violently when the boost kicks in.
 
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Old Apr 28, 2008 | 10:02 PM
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yea, when I was running a TST it would hit hard, if you floored it before the turbo would spool it would build to like 5psi and then the needle would just slam over, it would break the tires free in 4th. The bad thing was my TST didn't have all the monitoring capabilities of the edge, or the turbo cool down. I mean I could get by without all the extra stuff as I have the important guages already on the pillar but I really like some of the extra stuff, especially that turbo timer.
 
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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 01:01 PM
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Well I finally got my truck on the dyno, she did 559hp and 1045ft lbs.
HOLY CRAP !!!





That's AWESOME !!!
 
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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 01:05 PM
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the best thing to do would be to go out and run your edge up to the point to where things begin to slip, then back down a little
LMAO !!!

Sorry, that just reminded me of the old Mopar torque requirements

"Tighten until you feel it slip, and then go back 1/2 a turn"

 
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