well it was semi warm so i pulled the old one out. the clutch grenaded too. fun stuff. 3rd gear has no teeth, the shift fork is between the imput shaft and 5th. and about 2 handfulls of metal fell out of the bottom of the case. i have never seen a tranny this bad before. crazy. maybe i will post pics.

 

omg id love to see pics of that.... =P neways a nice story me and a friend are crusing down the highway at around 115mph on his 90 Camaro z28 got it like 2 weeks ago and he was trying to see the top speed and from nowhere we hear a clunk like metal falling and tranny fell str8 out running into the rear end we were making lots of sparks all over the place we were having a firework display on US1 we pulled over and look and ummmm so much scraping on the floor the tranny was broken in pieces and tranny fluid all over the place about 7 quarts of it it was fun and very exciting when the police officer stoped wondering what the hell the red stuff was all over the floor =P
TwEaK

 

hehe, exploding tranny stories are entertaining. anyone else have one?

 

Listen, if you have a little extra $$ on top of a rebuild, and you want maximum performance from your tranny, I have heard excellent second-hand reviews about the cryogenic treatment process for hardening them. It doesn't change the external size AT ALLmakes the gears much tougher. There is a shop here in Atlanta that does it for a lot of the racers here and they all like it very much. You can get pretty much the entire metal parts of the tranny (gears, shafts, maybe even synchros but those are supposed to wear I think) done, too... my next rebuild I will give that a serious thought.

Just my $0.02

 

i heard of that, totally forgot about it though. till now. how much are they charging for the treatment?

 

Don't know exactly. Their website is http://www.procryo.com though, so you can check it out. They also do powdercoating and stuff. I got them through a good referral from some guys at another shop.