B&J Quick Drive Automatic/ProBell Bellhousing/LAT Converter Oil

If anyone is looking to go the Automatic route, I have some really great input. Currently, we started running an Automatic this year and we decided to go with the B&J Quick Drive. Let me tell you one thing, words can not explain how happy we are with the unit. There are alot of great products out there, but hands down this is one of the most consistent and user friendly pieces we have ever used. It adapts to your B&J Tranny or even your Lenco CS1 or 2. It has amazing flow volume, and runs extremely cool. It's air activated tranny break works flawless, not to mention when you pull the chutes in the shutdown, the engine winds down with its reverse bearing set-up. Can not recommend a better deal, and we have tested others last year, and this is a true winner.

We have attached this unit to a ProBell Bellhousing, which has also proved to be an awesome product, lighter than a Titanium can! Has a easy access lid to stick your blower in and cool the converter right down.

And to top off our experience, LAT Racing Oil has developed a state of the art converter oil which runs extremely cool. It has an amazing shearing point and after trying a few different kinds, you could put your hand on the converter and tranny after a run without getting burned. We shot the converter pan and lines with a temp gun, and it was only at 150 degs, which we know from experience is a TON cooler than anything else we have ever used.

For the first time out with the converter, our 60' to 660' numbers were good enough to run in the 5.80's if we didn't have a bad ignition problem after the 1/8 mile. We were very satisfied.

The reason I am posting this is because a few months back, I sat in this very chair wondering if we would choose the right products for what we were trying to do. You read all sorts of posts with different opinions, and at the end of the day, you hope to get the truth. I can give you our word, these products above are hands down exactly the perfect products if you are going that route, not even a question asked.

Contact Numbers Listed Below Here:

B&J Trannys/Quick Drive: 888-781-1064 Mike or Jeff
ProBell Bellhousings: 877-430-6634 Dave
LAT Racing Oils: 888-528-6457 / 714-585-3247 Danny


Mike Janis Jr.
Mike Janis Racing, Inc. NHRA Pro Mod/ADRL Pro Extreme

 

Great info. Thank you very much for the post.

-Brian

 

Oil ? in the B&J

Aloha Mike,
What weight oils have you tried in the quick Drive unit ?? and the gear drive units.
Mahalo Doug Cobeen

 

My switch to the B&J converter drive and a tripple sprag big boy unit is probably the single best decistion that I have made in my racing career. Absolutely love it!

 

Question. How much air pressure are you running to the trans brake? I just had mine converted from a hydraulic unit to air. I have heard both 250lbs and 300lbs. ?
Where do I get a regulator that can run both trans shifting and brake. I already have two tanks and don't want to install another.
One tank operates the transmission 400lbs.
Other tank operates the air shifter and throttle control 125lbs.
Now another at 250-300lbs ?

 

High Pressure Air

You might want to think about a single tank with the required regulators connected to the tank instead of more than one tank each having it's own regulator. Save a little weight and only one bottle to recharge. That idea ought to be worth at least .03

 

We always just used an inline regulator. We run 1 bottle with the 400 lb regulator on it, the tee into that and run an inline regulator to any other components we run that require air. I'm pretty sure Mike or Jeff can get you what you need. No need for multiple bottles.

 

That's what I would like to do but how? Hi pressure fittings in the regulators are left hand thread. So running them out of a tee would be tough.

 

Where can I get an inline regulator?

 

ACD amongst others. Most folks that do throttle stops can hook you up too.

 

B&J quick drive

Call Mike or Jeff they sell a manifold that has preset diferent presure Tees for your trans

Trevor Jones.

 

quick drive

we switched over to a quick drive from a bruno and all our problems went away this thing is bullet proof

 

What problems did you have?

 

quick drive

shook tires once and broke pipe to solonid valve and burnt clutch pack up had to float this valve after that no more problems got drive from u s transmissions in littelton co also had them build converter

 

B&j

what is the weight of the B&J and how much? those are important questions too.

 

Does the output shaft come with the option for fine or coarse spline?

 

Switching from a clutch

I run a Lakewood steel bellhousing, Crower 10.7 aluminum clutch can someone tell me the weight difference from a quick drive setup. also the length .Thanks for the info Kevin

 

b and drive

we shook the solonid valve off once&burnt the clutch up the guys at us trans are good to work with new clutch pac & floted the valve the unit is bullit proff ue use mobil 1 oil and change it after 4 or 5 eventt s sure is lite years ahead of a bruino and the guys at b&j dont treat u like u r dumb and they dont yel at u

 

How would the B&J Quick Drive stack-up against a Lencodrive with all of the bells & whistles? Both with a CS2 behind? Pros? Cons?.......