trans blanket or ultrabell?

[Eagle]

Everyone knows that clutches sometimes come apart and wreak havoc on their way out of the car. Not everyone knows that autos with their flexplates and converters can do the same thing.

I'm looking at possibly performing this safety upgrade on my car for this year.

Which way should I go? Blanket or ultrabell? Is the ultrabell install a PITA, or is it really as easy as cutting off the old housing and bolting up the ultrabell?

Discuss.

Click to read more...

 

[skeezer]

You can use a CSR shield, which have been said to fit like shit on our cars.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CSI-832/

Or you can put on a bell and run a blanket. Since your bell does not cover the case, your blanket will have you covered.

Don't forget your SFI approved flex plate if you don't already have one.

 

[Eagle]

Already have the flexplate covered.

Ugh. Maybe just the bell for now. Hadn't considered the case exploding really...

 

[skeezer]

Don't go buying one before you talk to me about it.

 

[Eagle]

 

[greasy]

^

 

[skeezer]

it's a GTO, what do you expect

 

[Eagle]

Looks like the CSR is the better (once you address fitment issues) option and cheaper too....

HRMM....

 

[Eagle]

or this either!

 

[Eagle]

 

[skeezer]

transmissions equipped with a brake should have covers.

 

[Eagle]

Seems so.

 

[b00ya]

Yea id be more worried about getting a blanket then the ultrabell, its more likely that the trans will grenade then the flexplate coming apart and flying everywhere.

 

[Eagle]

CSR I think is the best of both... and you dont constantly have to dick around with positioning the blanket.

I'm curious about how the CSR contributes to trans temps though. I know the blanket will warm it up... but the CSR should still allow for some airflow...

Regardless, it's time to get that big ass fan I bought for the trans cooler last year actually installed in the car.

 

[Pressure Ratio]

Converters can blow up too.

Bite the bullet and do the Ultra Bell and the blanket.The bell bolts to the pump with the same bolts. Easy install. Your trans guy will do it for cheap when he goes through the trans.

The added bulk the CSR shield adds becomes a pita to deal with. I have helped install a few and many hut the trans tunnel and such. Plus two I installed on a th400 did not have a cut out for the cooler lines. So we had to cut the cover to get the lines to the trans. WTF is that bull shit.

 

[skeezer]

I wouldn't do the CSR shield.

 

[Eagle]

Why's that? What would you do?

 

[mr.gto]

That's stock mine did that every shift.... Gives u a little boost

 

[skeezer]

Why's that? What would you do?

i already have a bell. i would just put the blanket on there and be done with it.

 

[Eagle]

What bell u have?

 

[skeezer]

jw ultra bell

 

[Eagle]

Th400? lookin to sell?

 

[skeezer]

i don't know

 

[Handsome Jesus]

$75 and the bell and andy's transmissions will install it. (JW ultra is like what $160?)

If i hadn't been a cheap bastard when I did mine I would have done the JW and a blanket. Drum explosions are bad.

 

[Eagle]

Drum explosions ARE bad. You got a brake on your 400 DD?