Rjames18
Well-Known Member
People keep saying there is only clutches and converter for 10r80's... Well no other parts you "make stronger" is going to allow it to hold more power. By changing the friction material you're basically moving to a rougher sandpaper in a sense. But not actually increasing anything.
The other issue I'm having here is that no one has mentioned tuning issues. It is not hard at all to burn up a set of clutches.
My car when it was stock motor and transmission made 959whp @11lbs. I ran it like this from 7lbs being my lowest to 13lbs my highest for months. With no issues. Including everything from street racing to tonsss of passes at the track.
Now onto a "built 10r80". To really get something that is going to hold more power like I said you can't just change the friction material, you need to add more clutches and steals. Limitless Performance and Fabrication has modified the clutch baskets to where each basket is holding 3-4 more frictions/clutches.
One thing the OP does mention is that "the bottom 8" guys have multuple transmissions. I am on my one and only 10r80 that I have. You're more than welcome to check out my youtube where I have shown pulling the trans out before. Multiple times actually! First time of course was to swap from stock to adding in mcloed clutches and packing extras in each clutch pack. Second time wasn't until I went built motor, in which Justin inspected all of the clutches and they looked fresh, even after running 8's. So now built motor is in and head off to Georgia from Texas for Mod Nationals. After 5 passes, each one below 8.6 with a fastest of 8.2, the front bushing in my new Circle D converter pushed itself out. Get back home to Texas, pull the trans swap back to stock converter, throw on a 50 shot of nitrous and back to the track. Multiple bottom 8's with fastest of 8.1. Get the converter back from Circle D,slap it in, back to the track and make it about 10 passes then at flashlight shootout in Dallas the bushing does the exact same thing. During the start of TX2K pull the trans again, take the circle d converter back to circle d, replace valve body and filter, inspect all the clutches, 95% looked new, replaced a couple, got the converter back and slapped it back in. Haven't had any headaches with the converter or trans since.
The other issue I'm having here is that no one has mentioned tuning issues. It is not hard at all to burn up a set of clutches.
My car when it was stock motor and transmission made 959whp @11lbs. I ran it like this from 7lbs being my lowest to 13lbs my highest for months. With no issues. Including everything from street racing to tonsss of passes at the track.
Now onto a "built 10r80". To really get something that is going to hold more power like I said you can't just change the friction material, you need to add more clutches and steals. Limitless Performance and Fabrication has modified the clutch baskets to where each basket is holding 3-4 more frictions/clutches.
One thing the OP does mention is that "the bottom 8" guys have multuple transmissions. I am on my one and only 10r80 that I have. You're more than welcome to check out my youtube where I have shown pulling the trans out before. Multiple times actually! First time of course was to swap from stock to adding in mcloed clutches and packing extras in each clutch pack. Second time wasn't until I went built motor, in which Justin inspected all of the clutches and they looked fresh, even after running 8's. So now built motor is in and head off to Georgia from Texas for Mod Nationals. After 5 passes, each one below 8.6 with a fastest of 8.2, the front bushing in my new Circle D converter pushed itself out. Get back home to Texas, pull the trans swap back to stock converter, throw on a 50 shot of nitrous and back to the track. Multiple bottom 8's with fastest of 8.1. Get the converter back from Circle D,slap it in, back to the track and make it about 10 passes then at flashlight shootout in Dallas the bushing does the exact same thing. During the start of TX2K pull the trans again, take the circle d converter back to circle d, replace valve body and filter, inspect all the clutches, 95% looked new, replaced a couple, got the converter back and slapped it back in. Haven't had any headaches with the converter or trans since.