9.5 inch converter install pics

[Right on the Mark]

Doing my converter swap and thought peeps might like to see the huge differance in mass between the 2. The 9.5 inch converter is a PI 3200 single disc unit that has been just gone thru by Circle D.

Ok I'm going to have to make a disclaimer here because this is my car and I work on it how I please. This write up does not imply that this is the only way to do this or the best way.Just way I did it. That said,on we go.

Here is the side shot.

Rough weight differance is around 10 pounds.
Here is what back of engine looks like with trans and flex plate off.

Here is the crappy little "ear" that makes the trans hard to wiggle out. I cut it off so removal and install go fast. This get caught on EGR tube.

Here is it removed

Here is the stock flexplate i'm redrilling with the larger converter bolt pattern because conv is from a mustang.

Here is newly redrilled flexplate on the new 9.5 converter mock fit.

Here checking CircleD's work to check if snout is str8. Everything was good.

 

[pepperman]

OK i see now what you used to indicate in the rotor and flexplate, i use to be a machinist and to see how you did the work is very cool.

 

[BAD97LSC]

holy crap that thing is tiny!

 

[Right on the Mark]

holy crap that thing is tiny!

LOL I thought people might want to see the huge size differance.

 

[chris2523]

the size difference is simply an advantage because of the less weight then?

 

[Right on the Mark]

Less weight doesn't hurt. But the main size differance is to get the 3200 rpm stall over the stock 1800rpm stall. Plus stock convs not best to spin them to 6500-7000 rpm.

 

[kustomizingkid]

Ben, you were a machinist??

 

[karmanarx]

Ben, you were a machinist??

That's someone who believes in Iron Man right?

 

[ford nut]

Ben, you were a machinist??

He is a machinist.

How much was to converter after circle d went though it compared to just buying a single disk one from them?
Big savings? I guess it would be if you had it or stumbled across one.

Nice work, you have my mind in overdrive today.....

 

[Right on the Mark]

He is a machinist.

How much was to converter after circle d went though it compared to just buying a single disk one from them?
Big savings? I guess it would be if you had it or stumbled across one.

Nice work, you have my mind in overdrive today.....

This converter goes for roughly $750 new. I bought this one for $180 off ebay. The reason I wanted to not buy new was price and even though PI converters are GOOD they use a cheap paper clutch material in converter. As a MK8 owner we all know about converter shudder and didn't want to chance that again. Circle D puts a much better/larger carbon clutch material inside. So now I have a GOOD converter with the best clutch material. CircleD charged me $325 to go thru converter and 75 shipping both ways. So $580 Total for a better then new converter.

 

[ford nut]

So with a little work you saved about 200 bucks from a circle D Pro Performance Stage I Single Disk converter.

Not bad for a little work on a mill.

In this pic your centering the flex plate, you have two dowel pins in the old bolt holes.
Did you use these to locate on for your new bolt circle?

Also nice tip on cutting off the ear that gets caught on the EGR tube.

 

[Right on the Mark]

So with a little work you saved about 200 bucks from a circle D Pro Performance Stage I Single Disk converter.

Not bad for a little work on a mill.

In this pic your centering the flex plate, you have two dowel pins in the old bolt holes.
Did you use these to locate on for your new bolt circle?

Also nice tip on cutting off the ear that gets caught on the EGR tube.

I wanted the new pattern right in center of old pattern. I have complete pin gauge sets so find pins to fit tight,then just lay flexplate on table and push the flexplate str8 back so the pins "stop" on the table. Now these holes are 100% square or indexed. Then just tighen down ,took 2 seconds to mount.

Also that trans tab was driving me NUTS pulling trans. I was like your butts grass when I get you out. This applies to Gen1's I thing Gen2 EGR yube not in same place.

 

[pepperman]

Ben, you were a machinist??

Yup i was KK

 

[ford nut]

I see how its located now.
Nice.

Once a machinist.....always a machinist.

 

[Kevin O'Connell]

machine-----what?

I did 13 years U.S. Naval Shipyard Nuclear Marine Machinist. Lotsa cool toys-from machining 60 ft.x 21" dia. aircraft carrier propellor shaft sections all the way down to manual lathe tool holders and ground our own bits. We had mills that the work was bolted down to a table 10 ft. in diameter and the cutting head was stationary above the rotating table. Drilled pressure relief holes in nuclear coolant pumps, etc.

 

[GMAN]

I am dropping by Circle D tomorrow on my way home. These guys are in my back yard. Five miles from my job.

 

[kustomizingkid]

I'd love to see there shop, if I ever buy a converter for a 4r70w it is coming from them.