With or without a clutch pedal, all cars have three elements that make up their performance combination: the car's weight, horsepower, and gear ratios. When a torque converter is added in place of a ...

Welcome to the dark world of torque converters. When it comes to automatic-equipped street machines and drag-race cars, the torque converter is a welded-up magic box that few enthusiasts know much ...

Just like the foot bone's connected to the leg bone, it's only natural to think that a car's engine is connected to its rear wheels. This seemingly reasonable assumption would be wrong—at least in ...

Torque converter gearboxes are automatic, but not all automatics are torque converters. Some cars use something called a dual-clutch gearbox, while others use a continuously variable transmission (CVT ...

Ever wonder how your transmission knows to shift gears? Why is it that when you stop, the engine doesn't die? We're here to show you how cars work. We recently looked at manual transmissions. This ...

Clutch can be used with several different driven diameters and spring configurations to obtain the optimal driver to driven ratios for each application The highly tunable 780 torque converter drive ...

SHANGHAI: The Chinese arm of German autoparts maker Schaeffler has rolled off the assembly line its one-millionth torque converter from Taicang Plant. Torque converters not only give vehicles greater ...