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Originally posted by 329L:

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
This car leaves real pretty, wheely bar a few inches off the ground. It's probably when the tire grabs it accelerates real hard and the oil crawls up the back of the case behind the valve body, uncovering the pickup a hair for a split second. It might go a little better 1.10 so it's no rocket ship.

But you can see there's room for improvement in the graph. He ordered one. Runs a Hughes converter too, so it's a natural fit, he didn't hesitate once I made the suggestion. Made sense to him looking at the data.

Please post a run from data logger of after the pan change.

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Originally posted by 1320racer:

Waste of time and $ that provides no performance advantage, no service life advantage in your car but hey, it’s yours to waste.

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Originally posted by 1320racer:
if you believe there is merit to this tappered pan, you'll buy it, I don't and apparently I'm in good company with the who's who of race trans builders and the who's who of TD, TS and bracket racers who don't use this pan.

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Originally posted by 1320racer:

As to the amount of fluid this pan holds compared to the benchmark cast non tapered finned pan, the tapered pan can't hold the same volume of fluid with 3 of it's side reduced in height.

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Originally posted by 1320racer:
BTE, Abruzzi, Coan and FTI are just four of the biggest names in drag race transmissions that do not use a tapered pan