RE: [Chrysler300] torqueflite trans.

[john_nowosacki@xxxx]

I'll throw my past experiences in on two different G's I've owned. Somewhere between 75 and 80 is where the 'natural full throttle' upshift into 3rd always seemed to occur.
There was always so much torque on hand, I never had the occasion to go for 'kickdown' at speeds above 65, just ease into it and watch the needle dive to the triple digits.
By the way, should we be doing this to cars that are almost 50 years old?
Sure, why not!
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Apfelbeck [mailto:moparmike@xxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 5:58 PM
To: thomas powers; chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] torqueflite trans.


The old cast-iron torqueflites could not be held in 2nd gear past about 80 
mph, they would upshift, even with the selector in 2. It's likely there is 
a similar feature in there that limits the use of passing gear at higher 
speeds.
Mike

At 01:07 AM 6/4/2003 +0000, thomas powers wrote:

>Hello.
> I have a question what speeds can a torqueflite transmission downshift
>cause i was going 60 or 70 m.p.h. in my 60 300F and a car tried to pass me
>when he was way back to start with then i hit the gas and it would not
>downshift so i could get ahead and the car eventually got right by me and
>passed me.But it would not have happened if the transmission would have went
>into passing gear whats wrong thank you tom.
>




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