I just got off the phone with TCI. The tech guy there was very helpful and when I told him the symptoms (noise from converter area and no gears till it cools down) he said "I'm pretty sure the splines on either the input shaft or the converter have rounded off." I told him that the car probably only has 100 miles on it so far and he said he sees this occasionally.

So, we have to pull the engine and ship the tranny back to them in Missouri. Not looking forward to doing that, and Don is really bummed, however this is the hobby we have chosen and sometimes this is the way things go.

I'm more optimistic (of course it isn't me who laid out all the money for the car ) and I'm thrilled we at least have the handling issues corrected.

Don