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Old 12-13-2012, 07:25 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses View Post
The problem with the AT will be the torque converter. You can drop all the rotational mass you want, but that torque converter will always have the most drag (fluid).
Ummm... Even if you think the torque converter is a huge loss in power (in reality it's not) dropping rotational mass is still only going to help. If you have to fight the fluid in torque converter and 100 lbs of mass to spin, and you change the equation so you have to fight the fluid in the torque converter and only have to fight say 90 or 80 or 70 lbs of mass... Does it help to have dropped that mass? Rhetorical question.
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