These include Pete Nichols with Hughes Performance, JC Beattie Jr.

Today, we’ve joined forced with four of the top drivetrain manufacturers in the racing industry to share their top tech tips are for maintaining racing transmissions and converters to make their perform at their peak potential and put you in the winners circle. Now, every race car has a transmission and unless you’re (sadly) one of the dying few bracket racers that still shifts gears manually, your car has a torque converter, as well, and it’s in these two components where great strides can be made in these key departments that will help your goal of cutting great lights, running the number, and keeping the parts together week after week. Consistency, reaction times, and reliability are all paramount, and this all comes with proper setup and good maintenance. A number of different tunable variables play into the high-speed chess game that is bracket racing, all with varying ranks of importance over another, depending on the driver, the race car, and the style of racing.

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