Thanks Bill I think we are in the 7's to stay
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Yesterday we pulled the trans and found part of the problem. Looks like both seals on the input shaft are toast. The front seal is melted on the shaft....
The fluid was very dark and smelled terrible, not much shiny metal or clutch material though. I'll drop off the trans Monday at JW on my lunch break. We are going to have FTI Converters raise the stall of the converter about 300 rpm and look for any damage also this week.
Trans temp had been 160-180 all day and on the last pass the temps went past 300F.
The starter is a little noisy also so that is getting rebuilt this week.
When we checked the plugs yesterday we also noticed things to be a little lean so we will richen things up for the next time out.
We are also looking for a Ford 9" center section with 35 spline spool and 4:30 -4:57 gears ready to go, if anyone has one sitting around that they are not using.
Here are 2 pictures and 1 video of our slowest pass (8.48@165mph) from the event