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That's all cool and good, but now I wanna know how you use something hydraulic for a clutch.
by aasasd 8y ago
That's all cool and good, but now I wanna know how you use something hydraulic for a clutch.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoIt's a torque converter, like on a conventional automatic gearbox. Just obviously built to handle significantly more power and better cooled to handle the large amount of slipping required for low-speed driving.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoIt doesn't actually take much of a torque converter to handle 1000+hp. A stock style converter from a C6 or TH400 (half century old designs) should do the trick as long as you can cool them. Having a lockup converter that can deal with a 1000+hp is a whole different story.
- ehnto 8y agoSome kind of resistance on the flow of the hydraulic medium perhaps? Like putting a paddle wheel into a whirlpool but probably more sophisticated...
- fsloth 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_coupling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_coupling
- aasasd 8y agoThanks! The TLDR seems to be that there's an input turbine and an output turbine. (I probably should've seen that coming.) The modern replacement, torque converters, seem to be essentially the same but with some magical modification of fluid flow in the middle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_converter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_converter
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