1979 AMX Stocker update

Believe me, transmission school will definitely be in session here this coming winter. Lucky for me, my 80 year old step dad was an automotive instructor at a local college, and he's agreed to guide me through my first rebuild. After that, I'm being graded he says! Wow...the pressure on me never stops.

The latest:
As happens in racing, sometimes an unknown condition part you install just doesn't hold up as hoped. It would appear my "gift" rebuilt low-geared 998 transmission (long story but interesting) is done for. It lasted 7 runs. However, the only money I had invested in it was for 5 qts of fluid and the gas to get it home, so it's not like I have to lick my wounds on it much. I'd like to think my freshened up "Stocker-fied" Wicked Six 258 motor now has so much horsepower the tranny couldn't handle it any more, but I don't think I can get that lie past this crowd.

I was testing a couple weeks ago locally and suddenly experienced a very lazy 2-3 shift on two successive runs. Loaded up and went home right then hoping it was needing an adjustment on the bands or internal pressure was low maybe. Nope. Dropping the trans pan reveals pieces of friction material clogging the filter, so I think my unknown transmission has now become a racing commodity commonly known to most of us in this arena as "junk."

With so little time left in the racing season, and nothing else around my place readily available to install to get going again, I think it would be best to regroup for a while and get this low-geared trans re-done during the down time of winter, and probably do a spare one too for good measure. The rest of the car is acting pretty good right now, so the list of improvements needed over the winter isn't a real long one. Thought about building a motor test stand too, might come in handy.
Oh, don't worry, we'll be back...not quitting.

Cool...that should work good....TC stall??

i do not remember seeing  what are you running for rear gears ? 

I'm getting behind on my news updates...finally got the car to a quarter mile track in July and with the factory 1980 258 auto drive train still in place, I eventually netted a 17.20 as my best time on a somewhat hot day.  The index for my chosen class is 14.40 , so there's quite a bit of updating that needs done to get in the game for real. This ended the data gathering for the car in it's truly "stock" form, (other than gears), so we're marching on to the next stage now.

  After that session, the whole drive train has been taken back out of it and it has now been fitted with the stocker grind cam, a correct and freshened head, the intake with the right numbers NHRA wants to see, some headers and collector, a low-geared fresh trans and a decent converter, and various other little race goodies like an electric water pump that hopefully will not only lower the ET's a bunch, but make life easier for me at the track. When I get it all assembled and tested, I'll be back with another report.
  It's probably a good thing I tore the car down when I did, the factory 904 trans had lots of sparkly stuff swimming around in it when I drained it, so I guess I got about all I could out of the original piece with it's 110,000 + miles on it. A rebuilt 998 trans is going back in.