Thats awesome man! Congrats on the 7.60s passes. Looks like you will definitely meet your goal of an 11 second pass. Keep us posted on how the 1/4 passes go.

 

So if you want your tranny to have strong 5th and 6th gears, but yet be quiet enough to use as a daily driver, your only choice is a faceplated TR6060? I know faceplating isn't the greatest way to go for a DD, but it would have to be better than listening to straight cut gear whine on the interstate.

Or are the 5th and 6th gears in a stock TR6060 strong enough to use as power gears?

 

An upgrade T56 Magnum/TR6060 has very strong 5th and 6th gears. Faceplating doesn't necessarily make the gear stronger. It just eliminates some of the common failures of a standard synchronized T56 transmission. It gets rid of the slider keys that are a known weak link in T56s and should ALWAYS be replaced with solid billet keys in any performance rebuild. It also gets rid of the engaugement teeth that wear from clashing the slider and gear when shifting which causes poor shifting or popping out of gear.

Faceplatings primary objective is to help with high RPM shifting. With a synchronized transmission very high RPM shifting makes the blocking ring to a LOT of work to change the speed of the next gear, cluster gear, input shaft, (the entire propshaft in a C5 or C6) and clutch disk. With faceplating it has no choice but to change speed that is why you get such a positive "Whack" when you shift to the next gear in a faceplated trans.

If you aren't going to turn over 7,500rpm a triple cone transmission like the corvette or GTO T56 gearsets or the TR6060 will work just fine for you if you. If you are going to make over 650-700ftlbs I would recommend going with the T56 Magnum/TR6060 because the T56 starts to loose reliability at 650-700ftlbs.

 

Here is what i broke in my faceplated trans....