need transmission help

[ShadowBolt]

I don't know exactly what Joe added to make it shift so much better but it really helped. It may have not been more than $600.00 or $800.00 as I don't keep up with exactly what I spend doing this stuff. You could ask Joe what it is that he did to make it shift so much better. Before it broke it shifted as well as a T5. Jay and I do not even try to shift like Michael does or I don't think we would finish a weekend. I certainly do not push it as far as shifting really fast. I am going to ask Joe what all is broken but I'm almost sure the input shaft is one item.

I was going to switch over to a 3650. Aaron and others have ran it as is from Ford and have had no issues. I talked to Tony at Astro, a guy that owns Pro Force and Joe and they are telling me the 600 should hold up better than a 3650. Hell I don't know what to do. If I'm going to have to replace them every other year I will go back to running a $1800.00 T5 at only 75 lbs. Since we are not drag racing I don't think the 10 spline input shaft is an issue but I have gone through two A5's and a TKO600RR in 10 years of CMC racing. The thing that bothers me is I was getting four years out of the A5 (these were rebuilt units as there are no new A5's) and we were running every event NASA Texas put on (and NOLA three times). In the last two years we have been running the 600 I doubt we have ran in more than six or seven events.......TOTAL! This is the kind of shit that makes me think of quitting. It's not really the money it's all the work to get to the track and then clean up and put it all up when you get home and not getting to race the full weekend due to parts failures. Then of course I get tired of the wife saying "didn't you just buy that transmission brand new (not rebuilt) for $2500.00 less then two years ago and now he is telling you it's torn all to hell"? I assumed a transmission that is rated to hold up to 600 ft. lbs. of torque would last ten years in a 260/310 CMC car. I even remember telling Kathy "well we should be through spending money on transmissions". "This new one is made to handle way more power than the 55 makes". This is why I'm asking if there is something we are doing wrong. I don't know what it would be but how in the hell do we tear it up with so little power? I would hate to have the TKO600 behind my Lightning. I doubt it would make it to the end of the street.

JJ