Thread: School me on torque convertors

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I think you should throw out all that high dollar crap and go back to a Jackson!!!!! IMO store bought mass produced trannies will never be as good as the one's done one at a time by real trannie builders!!!!! B&M has gone the same way, got too big and the quality went right out the window.........

On the rare occasions that I actually cave in and run an automatic, mine are built at Jim's Automatic Transmissions..... He's a guy I went to school with and I see his tranny in his car running 8.90's every Sunday at the track.......

the names TCI and B&M used to mean something, not anymore IMO. I had a holeshot converter that was so far out of spec from one end to the other I could not even bolt it up. B&M tech line recommended I take it to a lathe shop and have some material removed, tried that and it could not even be spun up. Find someone local who rebuilds trannies, and your looking somone in the eye when/if yolu have a problem. No phone call, no reshipping, walk in and see the man. After the holeshot dilema I went with a Trans Specilities unit TC, heard good things on Coan, and BTE as well.

Originally Posted by bigjon 454

the names TCI and B&M used to mean something, not anymore IMO. I had a holeshot converter that was so far out of spec from one end to the other I could not even bolt it up. B&M tech line recommended I take it to a lathe shop and have some material removed, tried that and it could not even be spun up. Find someone local who rebuilds trannies, and your looking somone in the eye when/if yolu have a problem. No phone call, no reshipping, walk in and see the man. After the holeshot dilema I went with a Trans Specilities unit TC, heard good things on Coan, and BTE as well.

It's funny, my local mechanic said the same thing to me when I asked if I should rebuild my c6 or just buy a TCI from Summit, which was 300 less. He said take it to our local guy,and you won't have problems. I hope he's right, I pick it up on thursday. 3year 30 k warrenty, and they want to inspect it once I'm driving the car to check for any leaks. Seemed like good guys.

to rebuild a tranny must be awesome, they scare the hell out of me. In all my years and all my friends, no one does tranny rebuilds.