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Old 09-19-2009, 09:43 AM
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With mods in my signature, will my 60e hold up? I plan to daily drive my Nova will the occasional jumping on it once in awhile. I'm hoping to push the engine up into the 400 rwhp range and thats about it, so some more mods might come in to play until I get it up the the rwhp that I want.

I'm not going to be done with the car for about a year and a half and am stock piling/budgeting for parts and was wondering if I need to think about the trans.

It was a junkyard engine/trans that had 90k miles on it, the fluid looked great when I opened it up and I'm running two external coolers for it also.

What do you all think?
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it will be fine,mine took 400 rwhp all day,for a few years then I changed my whole setup,good luck
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Some are lucky and some aren't. Mine went out at 27k miles with basically stock power, but fluid was able 1/2 quart low, so that was probably the issue.
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i've been beating on mine for years at 400rwhp.
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thanks for the confidence guys, I also forgot to mention I set torque management at 50 percent too, so hopefully that won't hurt it either, but if it does, oh well, guess I'll get me a built unit.
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I've got 430rwhp n/a in a 3600# vert. Mine has held up well, it saw 525rwhp today on the bottle and has been 10.80's @ 127mph with big 275/60's killin' the gear. So, good luck and be safe




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