I came across this on Youtube. ATS shifting locked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt8w3...77RVAAAAAAAAAw

 

Good post Robert!

Yes Sir, that truck belongs to my good friends Dale and Jimmy Smith out of Danville, Ky. Jimmy is not driving the truck anymore. His Dad (Dale) hired a friend of theirs by the name of Seth Sullivan who drives it now. The have gone even faster than that run now and got in the high 8's @ 157 MPH this past summer at "Virginia Motorsports Park" in Dinwiddie, Va.

For all of the "naysayers" here and elsewhere that said "you can't shift locked"
ATS has proven that you can! Robert I KNOW you remember all those tranny wars we had a few years ago!

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John_P

 

Holy cow John! High 8's!!! Amazing for a 4-WD full size pickup with a thousand pound engine up front! There's no other transmission on the market that could have moved that truck like that AND shift locked time after time after time.

And yes indeed I do remember the "tranny wars" on the old TDR when a certain Canadian trans builder loudly proclaimed time after time that the ATS wouldn't work, and if it ever did work, it'd tear itself apart shifting locked. Ha. Clint proved the nay-sayers wrong then and he's still proving 'em wrong.

 

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Exactly right Robert! And you and I have done it for a LONG time with "daily driver" Dodge CTDTrucks too.

 

Robert, just a gentle prod. ATS makes a very good trans, but to say it is the ONLY one who can do it puts yourself squarely in the camp of those who naysay the ATS.

 

Sorry Pat, you're right of course. But I didn't know of any other Dodge/Cummins trannys that can shift locked, I suppose by now some other builders have figured it out, but I just haven't heard about them.

 

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Robert, while patdaly is right that some of the other aftermarket diesel transmissions companies do set-up their transmissions to shift locked, ATS was still the first one to do it and took ALOT of criticism and remarks from many so-called "experts" that it COULD NOT be done!

 

Iīd say that tranny has been tested to "higher than stock hp" That thing really gets away in a hurry..

Slev

 

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Yes Slev,.....that truck has in excess of 1,500 H.P. and currently holds the U.S. 1/4 mile record for a 4X4 diesel pickup!

 

Oh man... the amount of derision and ridicule, and ANGER directed toward ATS back then was huge! Just about every single customer of that other trans builder piled on Clint and ATS, repeating the story that ATS couldn't do it, and if, by some twisted accident of fate, they WERE shifting locked, the trans wouldn't last.

But I've got 180,000 miles on my ATS (288,000 on the truck) and it still shifts just fine.

 

Yep, that's why I always laugh when someone says they can't do it...... Just means you haven't figured out how to do it yet.......

Props to ATS!

 

I got my ATS Stage IV in the Spring of 2001, and I think I was the 3rd guy on the TDR to get one. Earthroamer (Bill Swails) was the first guy who posted regularly on the TDR to get one. I was impressed by the things Clint and Don Ramer (who used to work for ATS) had been posting at the time, and I called them and talked to them at length. I Liked that their solution to the stock 47RH problems were mostly mechanical, and not just plumbing fixes like the other builders were doing at that time. I liked their TripleLok concept and the way they re-machined the stock stator. And I loved their friction fixes--their clutch materials were tremendously more stout than the stock ones.

 

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Yeah Robert,...... I remember that you were one of the first to go with the early ATS Transmissions. And my Son John Jr. (banshee) and myself were not far behind you Sir! The ATS Transmission in my 1996 has also been there for over 200,000 miles, although we have upgraded to the newer "ATS Five-Star" and made some other minor changes internally to hold the 800+ H.P. I have been running for a few years now. However, I am still running the SAME Triple-Lok ATS TC in my 2006 Dodge CTD CR that was originally installed in my now sold 2002 Dodge CTD 24 valve! The 2002 had 94,000 miles when I sold it and I now have over 120,000 miles on my 2006! All that was done to that "ATS Triple-Lok" was an internal change to the stall speed.

 

Last year I got a 5-star TC too. It's a little more aggressive than the old TripleLok, but not that much more that it heats up too bad in traffic. I almost never see temps above 140 degrees.

 

1500 hp, I guess then you donīt just throw any tire on that thing, better be the gooooood stuff to get all that power to the ground, and it seems to be slipping a bit at launch, not a big surprise at 1500+ hp...

Slev