Well the past couple of days I've been hearing strange clunking and minor booms from somewhere in the engine bay everytime I take off slowly. Turbo+rebuilt engine+CM stage 4+12psi=extreme wheel hop=bye bye tranny. All this with only 63k original miles on a 97 and 6k miles on rebuilt engine. Another factor I believe, is because I didn't have the rear engine mount secured to the car. I was bar hopping last night and had my lil brother come pick up the car for me and drive it home. I went to get the car ready for him. I put it in reverse to get it out of the parking lot and it wouldn't go. I take it out of gear and put back in reverse again and it went. My little brother get's about 3 miles on it. He hits a pot hole and that's where he heard the final noises and sees metal pieces and fluid falling from my car. There's the about a hand size piece witht the tranny fluid drain plug attached to it and some gears that dropped out. I'll take pictures later. Now I needs to do some tranny shopping. Anyone know what the expected price would be for a used one?
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#105, "RE: And the motherlover went...." In response to Reply # 0
that sucks! hope you can take out a big loan or are a rich rapper.
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#108, "RE: And the motherlover went...." In response to Reply # 2
If your a high HP guy, I would recommend going with the Neon SOHC swap with a 2GNT bellhousing. The 3.55 Final drive and the .72 5th gear will make a good combo for less wheel spin off the line and high overall MPH.
#110, "RE: And the motherlover went...." In response to Reply # 3
I guess it's time for me to learn about the tranny. What does the bellhousing look like and what does it do? Is switching the bell housing something I can do on my own? Don't forget the only thing that I didn't do on my own was getting block bored, head milled and crank polished. Other than that everything else was from reading and you guys here on this board.
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#116, "RE: And the motherlover went...." In response to Reply # 5
since the area around the drain plug that blew off and a couple of gears are well sitting on the garage floor, I believe the differential just decided to throw a party and things just got a littlw rowdy. But thanks man, Armond's page just enlightend me on quite a few things.
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#125, "RE: And the motherlover went...." In response to Reply # 6
The differential's LOVE throwing rowdy parties! I still have yet to take the last tranny I blew apart but the hole is directly below the differential right in the bell housing. I should take it apart to see what gave.
