And unfortunately is out of warranty. I purchased the trans spring of 2009 and had it installed shortly after. Paid $2,200 for their level 2 with 9.5" 3K RPM Stall and trans cooler. I drove the car about 500 miles on a bolt on factory internal LT1 car with tops 300hp to the wheels. The car then was in a fender bender (light damage to the front right part of bumper and fender) and sat for a year with only an occasional trip around the block. The times I drove it the trans felt great and had no issues. I finally scrounged together the funds to dump into the body work for the car and began driving it more regularly again.
I began driving it occasionally on the weekends in nice weather. Put another probably 2K miles on it in 2011. Last year I did put some decent miles on it driving it daily to and from work another 4K or so. November of 2012 I was on my way to work and all of the sudden I noticed when trying to pass on the highway the car did not pull the way it usually did. Felt like it was hitting a wall and wouldn't go anywhere. Now keep in mind when the trans was running correctly it felt AWESOME. I loved the way it shifted and it felt very "crisp". When I got to work I popped the hood, pulled the trans dip stick and the fluid was completely black! I had changed the fluid/filter summer of 2012 and the fluid was perfect. I contacted Performabuilt and was told to change the Pressure Control Solenoid.
I then took my car to my shop, put her on the lift and dropped the trans pan. Tons of clutch material in the pan.. Pulled the trans out and opened it up to find lots of fried clutches. Everything else looked good to my eyes. I replaced the clutches cleaned old debris, looked for broken hard parts and anything else that looked amiss. Didn't see anything.. I'm not trans guy but I decided to give mine a shot. Put everything back together and put trans in car and its worse... S&*T.. I'm really sour with the situation. I do not want to ship my trans back to Performabuilt for their so called 600HP level 2 rebuild. I'm kind of torn on what to do. I've heard FLT is the end all be all of 4l60's but I don't want to spend 2K + for another (shipped to me trans) that I cant easily return for warranty work if need be. I wish I had driven the car more in the warranty period it would have probably broken and I would have had some recourse.
So should I drop the cash on an FLT,RPM,CPT trans or say screw it and pop in a t56 with a nice clutch and not worry about killing transmissions anymore? A stock rebuild on a t56 is pretty straight forward as is the swap and would be more than adequate for my bolt on 300hp LT1 car. Thoughts?
I began driving it occasionally on the weekends in nice weather. Put another probably 2K miles on it in 2011. Last year I did put some decent miles on it driving it daily to and from work another 4K or so. November of 2012 I was on my way to work and all of the sudden I noticed when trying to pass on the highway the car did not pull the way it usually did. Felt like it was hitting a wall and wouldn't go anywhere. Now keep in mind when the trans was running correctly it felt AWESOME. I loved the way it shifted and it felt very "crisp". When I got to work I popped the hood, pulled the trans dip stick and the fluid was completely black! I had changed the fluid/filter summer of 2012 and the fluid was perfect. I contacted Performabuilt and was told to change the Pressure Control Solenoid.
I then took my car to my shop, put her on the lift and dropped the trans pan. Tons of clutch material in the pan.. Pulled the trans out and opened it up to find lots of fried clutches. Everything else looked good to my eyes. I replaced the clutches cleaned old debris, looked for broken hard parts and anything else that looked amiss. Didn't see anything.. I'm not trans guy but I decided to give mine a shot. Put everything back together and put trans in car and its worse... S&*T.. I'm really sour with the situation. I do not want to ship my trans back to Performabuilt for their so called 600HP level 2 rebuild. I'm kind of torn on what to do. I've heard FLT is the end all be all of 4l60's but I don't want to spend 2K + for another (shipped to me trans) that I cant easily return for warranty work if need be. I wish I had driven the car more in the warranty period it would have probably broken and I would have had some recourse.
So should I drop the cash on an FLT,RPM,CPT trans or say screw it and pop in a t56 with a nice clutch and not worry about killing transmissions anymore? A stock rebuild on a t56 is pretty straight forward as is the swap and would be more than adequate for my bolt on 300hp LT1 car. Thoughts?