With or without a clutch pedal, all cars have three elements that make up their performance combination: the car's weight, horsepower, and gear ratios. When a torque converter is added in place of a ...

For many, building 500 horses isn't a problem; figure out what pieces will create the best possible combination, prep as needed, and bolt it together. However, once this is done, that power will need ...

With the growing popularity of CVT's and sequential manual transmissions, some may say that the conventional automatic may go extinct someday. Yeah right. There are still plenty of Bow Tie enthusiasts ...

If you’ve ever driven a vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission, chances are good you’ve been in command of a torque converter. At the risk of oversimplification, a torque converter transfers ...

Torque converter gearboxes are automatic, but not all automatics are torque converters. Some cars use something called a dual-clutch gearbox, while others use a continuously variable transmission (CVT ...

Almost no one thinks of it, but when you drive your automatic transmission car, you’re master over your car’s torque converter. That’s because torque converters transfer the power your car engine ...

Horsepower has a way of finding hiding places throughout the drivetrain. You might be sacrificing a few horsepower here and there due to normal parasitic loss or you might be dealing with a much more ...

Clutch can be used with several different driven diameters and spring configurations to obtain the optimal driver to driven ratios for each application The highly tunable 780 torque converter drive ...

LONDON: Owing to increased demand for automatic transmission vehicles, the global automotive torque converter market is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 4 percent during the period 2016-2020, ...

SHANGHAI: The Chinese arm of German autoparts maker Schaeffler has rolled off the assembly line its one-millionth torque converter from Taicang Plant. Torque converters not only give vehicles greater ...