converter restall

[white87306]

who can check the stall on my converter and restall if nescessary? How much does that usually cost? I would like to get this done in town (no shipping). The conerter is a PI but I did not buy it new.

[White90GT]

Chris at Circle D, Trans King in Galveston, Joseph B got his done at another guy, but I can't remember his name, starts with a B I believe.
Price at Circle D I want to say is around $150-$200 for a stall change.
Trans King I think is around $225 for the restall

[HoustonLX]

Circle D restalled my PI converter. Cost was close to $300 since they also had to install a new stator and pump. But I was very happy with the results. They are located off Hemstead HW.

[Timebomb]

What needs to be checked on it Robert? A shop is gonna charge you 100-150 to open it up and look inside, do you have any idea what stall it has now? Sometimes the best thing to do is to put the convertor in the car and try it, it may be fine as is and save you some money. The name of the other shop Carl is mentioning is Brittain's and I will be using them for my custom converter in the coupe, they are on Berry Rd over off the hardy toll road 713-694-4771.

[FE_rex]

No one I know can check the stall of a assembled convertor as it is dependent on a lot of car specific factors. I would definitely pour any remaining fluid out of the converter over a paper towel or shop rag and look for metal bits before putting it onto a tranny. If there are no metal bits, I suggest doing as Brent says and find out what your baseline is before proceeding.

[white87306]

Thanks guys. I have no idea what the stall is now. Trick Flow recommends a 3500 stall for the cam I have. I wasn't sure if there was some type of a converter "dyno" they could run a converter on to check the stall.

Sounds like I will check the fluid like Ken suggested and go ahead and install it.

[OK91LX]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the outside diameter give you some sort of indication of the stall.. ie 9 in vs an 11 in? It has been my experience that the 9 in is usually around 4k and subtract 1k of rpm roughly going up per inch.. ie 10in = 3k, 11in=2-2500k. It by no means is anything exact, but should give you some sort of idea of where you'll be starting.


Todd

[Timebomb]

In general terms Todd....Maybe. Usually the smaller the diameter of the converter the higher the stall rate but there are way too many variables (Power output of the motor, fin angle and alignment in the stator etc...) into determining the actually stall rate of the converter.

Robert if the convertor is a PI then it probably has some king of identification number on it somewhere that you can cross reference with PI to get some good information about it.

[white87306]

I looked it over pretty closely and didn't see any markings. I am guessing that it is a PI by the light purple paint.

[Blue91]

If it is a PI, it SHOULD DEFINITELY have some numbers stamped into it. I got the convertor I have used and wanted to know the specs on it, so I looked it all over and wrote down everything I could identify on it. I called up PI and asked them and they had me give them the numbers on the convertor. With that info, they told me it was a basic 94+ 2800-3000 single disk convertor.