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Nov 22, 2009
Joliet, Illinois
Hey just seeing if anyone out there has any ideas/advice for me aight heres my story.

So one night on the highway I was messing around with my buddy in his GSX; we both have litterally the exact same mods both auto just mines a talon:: we hit about 95 ish then my 4th gear just died I mean died it would work fine up until 4th gear so i limped it back home tore out my trans and decided it was shot!

The car still ran but it was making a horrible clunking sound from the trans so I bought a JDM one from ERIC OF JAPAN (in Chicago) $450 low and behold I install it and fire it up and the starter hesitating to engage the torque converter, problem 1. Else wise car drove just fine drove it around the block and then i pull back in my drive to hear than awful clunking coming from the trans/bellhousing area..

Any ideas anyone im pullling the motor and trans again friday and if anyone knows what kind of starter a JDM AWD auto tranny uses please let me know because im quiet sure I need that as welll. okay thanks guys! :hellyeah:

And the Car I'm talking about is a 95' Talon Tsi AWD AUTO
 
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So after many things going wrong with this swap it was the flexplate bolts coming loose I had to re tighten them now like 4 times then finally I just used thread locker now it's all good.

Only word of advice if anyone wants to do a jdm swap trans... DON'T!! It will work but gear ratios are way different (cause it's out of a SUV)
 
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