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I think my tranny just took a crap on my Trans Am.. hopefully not the engine
Was driving home from Ramsey just cruising.. Noticed a light smoke coming from the rear of the vehicle.
Turn onto the busy intersection near my house and start going up the slight incline of the hill and all of a sudden the car won't shift into 3rd and I'm cruising at 30mph at like 3500rpm in 2nd...
Pull into my driveway and a crapload of fluid is coming from just near my Y-pipe. Some smoke was coming out of the engine also so thats why I'm scared it might be the engine... I heard no popping noises or anything before this happened... Oil of some sort was all over the rear of my car
Hoping its not the engine.. If its the tranny it just means that I can finally upgrade to an FLT...
Was driving home from Ramsey just cruising.. Noticed a light smoke coming from the rear of the vehicle.
Turn onto the busy intersection near my house and start going up the slight incline of the hill and all of a sudden the car won't shift into 3rd and I'm cruising at 30mph at like 3500rpm in 2nd...
Pull into my driveway and a crapload of fluid is coming from just near my Y-pipe. Some smoke was coming out of the engine also so thats why I'm scared it might be the engine... I heard no popping noises or anything before this happened... Oil of some sort was all over the rear of my car
Hoping its not the engine.. If its the tranny it just means that I can finally upgrade to an FLT...
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I think my tranny just took a crap on my Trans Am.. hopefully not the engine
Was driving home from Ramsey just cruising.. Noticed a light smoke coming from the rear of the vehicle.
Turn onto the busy intersection near my house and start going up the slight incline of the hill and all of a sudden the car won't shift into 3rd and I'm cruising at 30mph at like 3500rpm in 2nd...
Pull into my driveway and a crapload of fluid is coming from just near my Y-pipe. Some smoke was coming out of the engine also so thats why I'm scared it might be the engine... I heard no popping noises or anything before this happened... Oil of some sort was all over the rear of my car
Hoping its not the engine.. If its the tranny it just means that I can finally upgrade to an FLT...
Was driving home from Ramsey just cruising.. Noticed a light smoke coming from the rear of the vehicle.
Turn onto the busy intersection near my house and start going up the slight incline of the hill and all of a sudden the car won't shift into 3rd and I'm cruising at 30mph at like 3500rpm in 2nd...
Pull into my driveway and a crapload of fluid is coming from just near my Y-pipe. Some smoke was coming out of the engine also so thats why I'm scared it might be the engine... I heard no popping noises or anything before this happened... Oil of some sort was all over the rear of my car
Hoping its not the engine.. If its the tranny it just means that I can finally upgrade to an FLT...
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I finally let a decent amount of it drip out on my cardboard piece and took a paper towel to it. Its the tranny fluid.
My guess is that a pump broke or my rear main seal blew out
My guess is that a pump broke or my rear main seal blew out
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I think it is coming from the front pump on the tranny. Fluid was pooling and the pan is still on. Maybe I blew the rear-main ?? idk
But its going to be down for the count for about a month or two (FML, nice weather) until I get the money and then I'm going to get my new opti, ignition stuff, M/T tires, and a FLT Stage 4 to connect my Yank SS 3600 too
Hopefully by then I will have some money to start working on suspension parts too, but I'm not going to get too ahead of myself.
But its going to be down for the count for about a month or two (FML, nice weather) until I get the money and then I'm going to get my new opti, ignition stuff, M/T tires, and a FLT Stage 4 to connect my Yank SS 3600 too
Hopefully by then I will have some money to start working on suspension parts too, but I'm not going to get too ahead of myself.
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I think it is coming from the front pump on the tranny. Fluid was pooling and the pan is still on. Maybe I blew the rear-main ?? idk
But its going to be down for the count for about a month or two (FML, nice weather) until I get the money and then I'm going to get my new opti, ignition stuff, M/T tires, and a FLT Stage 4 to connect my Yank SS 3600 too
Hopefully by then I will have some money to start working on suspension parts too, but I'm not going to get too ahead of myself.
But its going to be down for the count for about a month or two (FML, nice weather) until I get the money and then I'm going to get my new opti, ignition stuff, M/T tires, and a FLT Stage 4 to connect my Yank SS 3600 too
Hopefully by then I will have some money to start working on suspension parts too, but I'm not going to get too ahead of myself.
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I wish.. Already have the Yank SS3600 and 29k BTU tranny cooler though so I'm probably just going to stick with what I got
Guess it was a nice way to upgrade my tranny to one a little more.. power holding... but the goal was originally to have the money before I did that
(Repairs on the DD kinda tapped out my safety fund)
Guess it was a nice way to upgrade my tranny to one a little more.. power holding... but the goal was originally to have the money before I did that
(Repairs on the DD kinda tapped out my safety fund)
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Now the question on what new tranny to get
Need opinions from people who use both
Performabuilt level 2 or FLT Stage 4?
Performabuilt is $1650 w/ free ship and they buy back old core for $150 and take care of shipping costs with that and 1 year warranty
FLT Stage 4 = $2275 w/ shipping and core charge. $300 redeemable when FLT says my old core is good.
What do you guys think?
Need opinions from people who use both
Performabuilt level 2 or FLT Stage 4?
Performabuilt is $1650 w/ free ship and they buy back old core for $150 and take care of shipping costs with that and 1 year warranty
FLT Stage 4 = $2275 w/ shipping and core charge. $300 redeemable when FLT says my old core is good.
What do you guys think?
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Now the question on what new tranny to get
Need opinions from people who use both
Performabuilt level 2 or FLT Stage 4?
Performabuilt is $1650 w/ free ship and they buy back old core for $150 and take care of shipping costs with that and 1 year warranty
FLT Stage 4 = $2275 w/ shipping and core charge. $300 redeemable when FLT says my old core is good.
What do you guys think?
Need opinions from people who use both
Performabuilt level 2 or FLT Stage 4?
Performabuilt is $1650 w/ free ship and they buy back old core for $150 and take care of shipping costs with that and 1 year warranty
FLT Stage 4 = $2275 w/ shipping and core charge. $300 redeemable when FLT says my old core is good.
What do you guys think?
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I'm going bigger on the tranny now for my future build
Eventually want 355 longblock w/ LE2 heads/cam and a 200shot of nitrous
Stage 4 FLT would be fine with that for sure
Idk much about Performabuilt though??? They claim its rated for 700hp but idk if thats fully believeable
Eventually want 355 longblock w/ LE2 heads/cam and a 200shot of nitrous
Stage 4 FLT would be fine with that for sure
Idk much about Performabuilt though??? They claim its rated for 700hp but idk if thats fully believeable
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Talk to CPT about a transmission. Heard nothing but good things from their customers
http://www.cahallperformancetransmissions.com/
http://www.cahallperformancetransmissions.com/
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I'm going bigger on the tranny now for my future build
Eventually want 355 longblock w/ LE2 heads/cam and a 200shot of nitrous
Stage 4 FLT would be fine with that for sure
Idk much about Performabuilt though??? They claim its rated for 700hp but idk if thats fully believeable
Eventually want 355 longblock w/ LE2 heads/cam and a 200shot of nitrous
Stage 4 FLT would be fine with that for sure
Idk much about Performabuilt though??? They claim its rated for 700hp but idk if thats fully believeable