TC's and manual trans (was: Re: Smooth strategy)

[Clarence L.Snyder]

Greg Hermann wrote:

> 
> No way--a two element torque converter is a violation of Newton's laws!!
> 
> Regards, Greg
Then what do you call a 3 element fluid coupling? The torque multiplier
in the early hydramatic did not make it a torque converter - it was
still a fluid coupling because it had tangential vanes. This was used
on  some Pontiac Hydros.
The curved vanes of the torque converter reroute the oil to the backside
of the pump instead of the front side - thereby increasing torque. The
addition of the stator in a torque converter is much more effective than
a multiplier in a fluid coupling for this reason.
Don't believe me - go get a good automotive mechanics text book -
preferably from the era when fluid couplings were not ancient history
and check it out.

An old fossil who's actually seen, driven, and worked on them.