converter stall

[falcon cobra]

Patrick has I think a C-4 and larry had one and now has a T-5 but what stall speed do you have or did you have with your converter? I need to get one other than stock. thanks ..jh

[BadBird]

Mine was a 3200 I believe. It seemed a bit radical for my liking. Something a little less maybe? Larry

[pbrown]

Mine is a 3400 custom made unit from Edge Racing.

[falcon cobra]

I was lead to believe the stall is to be about 500 rpm below cruse rpm, so lets say if it turns 3000 @ 60 it should be around a 2500 stall or its slipping to much. I could be wrong...jh

[doghows]

Hmmmm, mine is a stock converter for a 91 mustang with the 5.0. H.O. And it's 1800 stall? I ran this same setup in an early bronco and used a 1200 stall unit?
Any transmission shop guys on the forum?

[Luva65wagon]

Having been out of the loop concerning automatics until recently (like... as of last night) I have never tried to even figure out what "stall converter" even means. I know... and I call myself mechanically inclined.

I was always led to believe (from somebody I once asked) that the stall speed was the speed you had to achieve for 100% engagement of the converter. This was to allow engines with radical cam engines no load in-gear engagement rather than in neutral, then into gear, then into neutral, then into gear - doing so manually to keep the engine from stalling at an idle. When they accelerate and hit that RPM, by then they should be fully engaged. Whether there was some intermediate level of engagement - AKA slip of the converter - I don't know. Cause I don't know anything about this. But would really like to know once and for all.