This transmission is just a stock rebuild with a manual valve body on it. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/TCI-112100/ Just wanted you to be clear on what you would be getting. Don't let the TCI part influence you so much.
Yeah, that's what this guy out here was telling me. I also talked to a tech at TCI(he didn't say much), then I e-mailed them asking for a spec sheet or list of all internal work, upgrades, etc. on that tranny. E-mail back said,....... " I don’t have a spec sheet per say, however that trans is a Competition 727 built with Red Eagle nitrided race clutches, Kolene steels, hardened shafts, and full manual reverse shift valve body.
The guy out here I've been talking to has mentioned stuff like 4 clutch planetary, billet drum, wider band/band strut, high ratio shift lever, oiling mods, billet servos etc. fancy sounding stuff and maybe unnecessary, but for $1200-$1500 not bad.
My brother had his trans built for $700, and he was pushing 475hpmotor..600hp with nitrous in a 4x4 van. I certainly can't see why a good rebuild with band/clutch upgrades, and a few other tweaks here and there, wouldn't be good enough for me and my 500 horses. That was my thinking also, was the 440's and Hemi's that these trannies were behind stock.
Even the tranny in my car now(not sure of miles), but other than some smelly and slippy, it held up fine. It didn't blow a sprag or drum, and it took some pretty hard abuse this summer. I think my tires took most of the abuse though.
But yeah, I was thinking $800-$1200 to build it for the power I'm running now, and it only has to last a couple years, and then I'm hopefully doing the tub, narrowed dana, 900 hp small block with blower
, etc. and then $$$$$ on a tranny.