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2G 10 sec trans. who should I go with?

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my needs for now street and a bit of fun here and there mostly reiliable so im good on that but no 10 second car next will be build for drag and street.
 
I have been wondering this same thing for awhile, heard of a few people breaking jacks hd trans, I'm considering a trans from TMZ due to tims amazing customer service and willingness to share what he's learned with the community. Only option for non oem gears is a guy on the link forums from germany, you can send him your gear set and he has machinist that will produce new gears. It's not cheap but he claims this transmissiom is holding up to the 900 hp he makes.
 
Cool so he's making the same gear out of some exotic material. Good idea, just hope the variance in thermal expansion rate doesn't cause any issues because as mentioned these transmissions can run quite hot. With tolerances in a transmission in the thousandth of an inch, this could thow off your delicately shimmed gearboxes!
 
anyone have any experience with the tmz stage 5 dogbox?
 
Anyone know how to get ahold of tre? Does not answer the phone voice mail box is full so cant leave a messg and no response to my emails.
 
I am booked into October currently. The easiest way to contact Jon (TRE) is [email protected].

I am not taking in any jobs until October when the new shop is hopefully completed.
 
I'm currently running 2.2 HD trans from jacks
With Evo 3 1st. And 5th always used the oem
Mitsubishi oil as they recommend

It's been 2 years 1 year all street driving
The second year all track events all mid to low 10 sec passes launching at 7k and always doing a burnout
 
I just built a evo for a friend and he went with jacks full tranny and tcase. Everything so far seems to be great. Ill give them a shout monday. Hopefully ill have better luck then ive been having with other builders as far as communication.
 
Anyone know how to get ahold of anyone at tre? Tried calling and emailing multiple times with no luck.
 
To get ahold of tre email between 10am and 5pm Tuesday through Friday. I just talked to Jon yesterday through email
 
Emailed and called between thos times and thos days. No answer says mailbox full. Also no email responses.
 
I gave up on tre. I sent him a set of dissasebled gears in July 2012, to get detailed and shot peened and a cd to get machined for a 4 spider. Should have been a week or two to get done. I got them back in August of 2013. He gave be a good discount for taking so long, but the problem is that he totally half assed the detail job compared to the other sets I had done. Then gave me different cd housing that I sent , and forgot a few new parts I had requested. I can't really complain becauee it was cheap, but then again i would have rather had the full bill and got what I wanted even if I had to wait forever. So far I've had the best luck with deburrwd gears that were not shot peened. I understand the science behind shot peening, but I have not seen any results.
 
I went with Shepherd to build my transmission because of his reputation in the DSM community, I didn't want to budget a transmission build and regret it later. I sent them my '99 M/T and 1mo. I got my stage IV (w/ 4 spider CD, LSD, Evo 1st, 3rd, 4th gear and REM ISF treatment) and I couldn't have been happier.

Seems very minuscule but the first 6mos. I had it I couldn't keep a working VSS for more than 2 days before my speedo would stop working. I'd pull it out and it would have a flat edge on the teeth, the transmission kept eating them up. I'd order a new one ($20 from the dealer) for a '97-'99 M/T, installed it, and less than 100 miles it would eat the teeth of the VSS gear again and I'd order a new one. I thought maybe I was installing them wrong, etc. After the 4th one and $100 later I called Shep and told him my problem and he said, "Oh, yea, we might have installed a '95-'96 speedo gear in the transmission by accident. Try installing a '95-'96 VSS gear in there and see if it fixes the problem." So, installing a '95-'96 gear did fix the problem which means who knows what else they "accidentally" installed in my $4,000.00 to my door step transmission?

Currently, it's still performing good. Change the fluid every year (no matter how little mileage I put on it) with their recommended 50/50 MT-90 and LW Shockproof mixture, even though every DSM transmission builder besides them recommends against it. It's just the fact that I paid how much for the Shep name and what kind of attention to detail was used during the rebuild? I could have gone to TRE or DSM transmission builder and had the same result, I wouldn't have paid the Shep price for it though.


Don't get me wrong, it's a great transmission but I wouldn't pay the Shep price for it again since IMO it wasn't worth it.



Sorry to hear man and that is a reason I have never spent any serious coin on our manual trannies. I run stock trannies. I replace them when I strip the gears. At $300-$400 a pop. I could break 10 for the price you paid for yours. My Galant lately has had a healthy appetite for 3rd gears so....I'm just racing it less at the track.
 
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