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When did your 4l60e die?
Mine went good until about 95,000 miles with headers, catback, and gears, with a tune! Then it started refusing to shift into 4th at wot and the regular shift from 3rd to 4th was pretty slow. Now i have a race built 4l60e and a custom built 3000 stall! Hopefully this one will last another 95,000 miles. Knock on wood!
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From: FS Arkansas
Originally Posted by jeremyb4c
mine started slipping in third and fourth gear with 101,000 thousand on it but 92,000 thousand of that was police car duty so im surprised it even held up this long
Mine never died, it was just replaced with a 4l80.
I have a 101,xxx on mine, and it is starting to go. I am having problems with lazy shifts and Converter not locking up. I just got it tuned too. So it kinda sucks. lol
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11 Second Club
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Sandwich, IL
70,000 miles and it finally died about a month ago. That's after about 200-300 track passes with 1.65-1.75 60's. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.
Personally I would have gone the other route and gotten the tranny first. The transmission takes stress every time you go WOT. The rearend only takes stress on launches where you dead hook or during wheelhop. And many A4 guys have gone into the 10's on the 10 bolt by simply preloading the drivetrain before every launch.
Behind the kind of power you have that transmission won't last long. I would start saving now for a built 4L60E and I would seriously lay off racing/extended WOT runs until you have enough cash saved.
Good luck.
Personally I would have gone the other route and gotten the tranny first. The transmission takes stress every time you go WOT. The rearend only takes stress on launches where you dead hook or during wheelhop. And many A4 guys have gone into the 10's on the 10 bolt by simply preloading the drivetrain before every launch.
Behind the kind of power you have that transmission won't last long. I would start saving now for a built 4L60E and I would seriously lay off racing/extended WOT runs until you have enough cash saved.
Good luck.
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Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Sandwich, IL
Originally Posted by Pntbll309
Then one night I got on it and "POOP!!!" and no forward gears. Drove home in reverse.
So I drove thirty miles of expressway doing 50 mph in second gear and I thought that was bad. In reverse I probably would have been arrested for suspicion of drunk driving
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Joined: Jul 2006
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From: Arkansas born, stuck in Toledo
I think I may have the record... 26k with a stock car, and it had NEVER been raced. My wife and I were going to the store when after a stoplight it would not shift into 3rd. I took it to GM (it was still under warranty) the mechanic said the 3-4 bands and clutches were bad.
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Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Sandwich, IL
Originally Posted by BobDoLe
after about 20 WOT 3-4 shifts with torque management removed, it will die.
Besides the 3-4 shift happens at 142 MPH with 3.23 gears and with 2.73's you'd hit the speed governor before you could hit 4th. Anyone who consistently reaches 4th gear at WOT needs to have thier license suspended and sanity checked.
128K miles on my stock 4L60E, 4000T.C. ran in it for probably 15K miles, and half that time without a tranny cooler. Runnin just fine w/ no problems bustin off 11's at the track consistently and 1.6x's with occasional 1.5x 60ft times. Full bolt on car, runnin slicks/skinnies at the track, 315's on the street,...MS3 cam. Explain that!!! hahaha im knockin on wood right now by the way, but i've got plenty of miles & plenty of mods
Originally Posted by Formula_Power
I know asking when will my trans will die is like trying to pick lottery numbers but i just wanted to know wht some others experiances were. When did your stock a4 take a dump..was it from abuse or just normal wear? what kinda 60fts/ets were your running when it let go?
I had to choose between a trans and rear since the new 408 set me back some and i decided on the rear since i knows it a verified weak point now I am kinda worried about the trans. My car is a 98 formula with 487 hp and 462 tq and will hopfully be at least a low 11 maybe better depending on the day
thanks
I had to choose between a trans and rear since the new 408 set me back some and i decided on the rear since i knows it a verified weak point now I am kinda worried about the trans. My car is a 98 formula with 487 hp and 462 tq and will hopfully be at least a low 11 maybe better depending on the day
thanks
