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 ...

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 ...

IT is indicative of the interest being taken by engineers in the comparatively recent hydraulic method of transmitting torque and to the importance attached to its development that three papers on ...

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 ...