keltalon
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- Jun 29, 2003
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Luthersville Ga, Atlanta,
Georgia
I have been debating for about two weeks wether to post this or not but since I have since fixed/rebuilt my own tranny I decided to post it. I bought a TRE stage 2 tranny used from a member on the site I gave 1500.00 bucks for it and 3 days in the car and the tranny granaded left me stranded on a country back road right near a house that we all believe to be haunted no lights or anything. I felt straight stupid me a grown man thinking a monster gonna get me . But anyway this was a straight tradgedy. No discredit to the seller by no means. But we found out that someone dropped the tranny and cracked the outer casing. Without my knowledge I put it into the car and when it was introduced to my power levels it gave up quick. I took the tranny apart I must say I was very impressed with the gear detail that TRE put in it.
The transmission shift like butter no matter what rpm I chose to shift at this also impressed me. I contacted Jon at TRE and spoke with him at length about what may have happen. I must say this guy is very nice but can talk the living daylights out of ya nontheless I enjoyed him sharing his thoughts with me
I gave him the numbers off the tranny and he immediately recognized who he did the work for and informed me that the tranny had extensive road race use and that he built it 3 or 4 yrs ago. I said oh really. At this point I had to try and look at the positive side of this issue. I was able to save the Quaife LSD as well as most of the gears. I took 3 busted trannies and made one good one setting preload with sauder and all of what it takes to build a tranny and all I can say is if my arm was long enough I would pat myself on the back. The build took me a good 8 hrs most of this time sorting through what was usable and what was not.
The newly rebuilt unit is now back in the car and ready for track/dyno and whatever it need to do but here are some pics of the carnage and the insides of my rebuilt unit enjoy!
The transmission shift like butter no matter what rpm I chose to shift at this also impressed me. I contacted Jon at TRE and spoke with him at length about what may have happen. I must say this guy is very nice but can talk the living daylights out of ya nontheless I enjoyed him sharing his thoughts with me
I gave him the numbers off the tranny and he immediately recognized who he did the work for and informed me that the tranny had extensive road race use and that he built it 3 or 4 yrs ago. I said oh really. At this point I had to try and look at the positive side of this issue. I was able to save the Quaife LSD as well as most of the gears. I took 3 busted trannies and made one good one setting preload with sauder and all of what it takes to build a tranny and all I can say is if my arm was long enough I would pat myself on the back. The build took me a good 8 hrs most of this time sorting through what was usable and what was not.
The newly rebuilt unit is now back in the car and ready for track/dyno and whatever it need to do but here are some pics of the carnage and the insides of my rebuilt unit enjoy!