sounds like the guy is stahlling......

 

well today i was at the shop at 6:15 before school....he acaully went to UPS and got the TC last night instead of waiting till 1pm to get it today....so he is installing it right now and HOPEFULLY everything works out ill get it back this afternoon....now if it goes out sometime on the way to maine and back, then ill b pissed!....so hopefully it doesnt come down to the ATS which you can find for less then 8 grand, but even close to that I dont want to spend in a transmission....yet!

 

this is a large wad of cash buddy...i hope ull built the engine to make this tranny built worth it

 

looking at the BD twin turbo system right now...but thats about half as much as the tranny!

 

making power on these trucks is easy and not too expensive. . .holding the power and putting it to the ground is where it becomes expensive.

 

yeah i am slowly finding this out the expenseive and hard way!

 

got the truck back last night at 10...he stayed after hours to make sure i got it back before i head to maine...great buy that holds true to his warrenty...if this one craps out again....he has a BD waiting for me! which willl be sweeeet!

 

that's quite the tranny there. I just hope you won't need to use the warranty cause that's what I've seen so many have problems with.

It's like buying the life time warranty starter from your local auot parts store. Sure, they'll warranty it for life but, once you've replaced it 5 times, you couldn't care less about a life time warranty and more... you just want something that works. I've seen several guys have to warranty their tranny through ATS up to 3 times. They did it the first time but, fought to warranty after that. Their warranty is for your basic daily driving. If you break something from getting crazy... it's not gonna be covered.

Just a little insite from what i've seen over the last couple years. You may be just fine and I hope you get lots of burn outs out of it :-)

 

suncoast would be just about the same price with everything wouldnt it? i really dont need or want the lock up box...just another way for my self to take out another tc.....and i acaully am starting to like suncoast better listening to you and bryan here at the transmission shop who is a dealer for summit and siad he is going to look into trying to get their parts for my rig..he has built many of the local guys cummins, duramax, and powerstroke tranny....i am only the 3rd 2ng gen he has done and he says they are so much harder to get correct then any 03 and up!...dont know why....but mine has more problems that anyone was well...lol....my luck! but he isa great guy and did it all under warrenty....

 

I'm not saying Suncoast is the only way to go but, it's been a race/pulling proven set up for many trucks. ATS does make some nice stuff and maybe they've gotten better about honoring warranties ??? I've meet Clint ( the owner ) several times at races and he and his crew are a bunch of great guys. To mahy people think though that just because they offer a warranty that they can go out and abuse, race or pull with them and it will be covered..... not the case. It would be like taking your truck to the dealer for warrarty work after you broke something using programmers, they say... sorry, no help for you.

You really don 't need a 8K trans either unless you plan to start racing or pulling. A good TQ and input shaft would do wonders for you. You have to remember though.... just because you spend 8K doesn't mean for one minute you'll not have problems. Spend your money wisely brotha !