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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 11:13 PM
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i want a 3600 stall... its a DD that gets races every "so often"
besides that... I dont care. Im poor, so the price is pretty much all I have
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Old Aug 30, 2007 | 02:38 AM
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save your money, $350 will buy you a small stall that would be a waste of time, money and effort. get an empty water jug and put your change in it, count it at the end of the month and buy a kick *** stall, hell u might just have a enough to even have someone install it

just my $.02
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Old Aug 30, 2007 | 02:53 AM
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This is not a part on the car you want to go cheap on. It will be worth it in the long run. I just seen what happens when one of these blow up at my buddys shop. Metal shavings every where thru out the tranny. Needs to be completly cleaned out and rebuilt. Now there is some money gone down the drain. Save your money. Get a quailty one. Another $.02 worth
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Old Aug 30, 2007 | 03:24 AM
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stlls make o break how an automatic perform...spend as much as you can, im a proud ss3600 yank owner...i moved from fuddle to them...fuddle wasnt as bad but i picked up alot of up top mph
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The used TCI SS3500 I have sitting in my garage.
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The used TCI SS3500 I have sitting in my garage.
how many miles on it? whats wrong with it? (IE, why is it not in your car?)
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for that price ur gonn have to wait till fuddle has a sale.
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Originally Posted by PhantomR/T
how many miles on it? whats wrong with it? (IE, why is it not in your car?)
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Old Aug 30, 2007 | 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by PhantomR/T
i want a 3600 stall... its a DD that gets races every "so often"
besides that... I dont care. Im poor, so the price is pretty much all I have
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for that price ur gonn have to wait till fuddle has a sale.
Can't do $350, but we can do pretty close. Current sale pricefuddleracing.com/specials is $375.

Let me know if you have questions.

Thanks,
John
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am thinking about it...
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Old Aug 31, 2007 | 10:13 AM
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hey, your from florida right? i got a 100 dollar used tci from a local guy, fried lock up clutch, sent it back to tci and for 175 shipped both ways they fixed it and warrentied it. try to find a used one and get it refreshed.
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Old Aug 31, 2007 | 11:28 PM
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I met you at UCF. I have this name on Fuel **** also
you car is NBM, right?
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Old Sep 1, 2007 | 07:21 AM
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you get what you pay for.
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Old Sep 1, 2007 | 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by gillbot
you get what you pay for.
Yup...especially when it comes to a stall..seriously dude..save your money and get a good one..
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Old Sep 1, 2007 | 06:22 PM
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It will cost more than $350 in the long run if you cheapen out on the converter. **** TCI, they don't know **** about LS1 converters. Go Yank or Vigilante. They are the ONLY ones who know our cars and our transmissions.
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Old Sep 2, 2007 | 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt D
It will cost more than $350 in the long run if you cheapen out on the converter. **** TCI, they don't know **** about LS1 converters. Go Yank or Vigilante. They are the ONLY ones who know our cars and our transmissions.
i would say thats an ignorant statement. ive seen several people on here going fast on tci's. just because they dont post doesnt mean they are a bad comapny or "dont know **** about ls1 converters" they are a big company so once in a while they have let downs in customer service and suddenly they are a horrible company. i call bull ****.
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Old Sep 2, 2007 | 10:35 AM
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Thats like trying to look for a "good" car for $1000. It won't happen. Save your bucks, and get a good quality one.
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Old Sep 4, 2007 | 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Hennytime
i would say thats an ignorant statement. ive seen several people on here going fast on tci's. just because they dont post doesnt mean they are a bad comapny or "dont know **** about ls1 converters" they are a big company so once in a while they have let downs in customer service and suddenly they are a horrible company. i call bull ****.
Kevin Winstead himself (Head of R&D) told me that 150 of the last 500 converters they have sold to LS1 owners have blown up. Yeah, they know what the **** they are doing. I got lucky enough to have two of them myself. One blew up after 3 months, and the other took three dyno pulls and then grenaded. I threw a Yank in and my problems went away. By all means, waste your money.
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i'm rockin the TCI right now no problems
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 02:11 AM
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goin with an Art Carr convertor. Hopefully its good for me
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