I drove low miles and mostly e-way. Never too fast....around 70 e-way.
I only went to the track 2-3 times a year, made 5-10 passes each trip.
I was the original owner. I didn't race it all all until about 50k-60k(when it got payed off)
At about 5 years..i lost OD.
The complete rebuild was going to be $1800
So i got the motorsport "low gear set"
(another bad thing about the AOD..2.40 1st gear compared to 3.35 T5)
and TCI convereter.
I stopped doing the 1-D-1 shuffle(you should too, you will smoke it waaaaay quick)
And also only drove in town in D..no OD(weakest link in the AOD is The OD)
It lasted 8 months. Started slipping OD again.
I sued the trans shop....i knew it was nothing they did..but they originally told me 1 year warranty..when i picked it up they said" your probably gonna beat on it so we changed it to 6 months" thinking it was "bulletproof" i didn't care (the first one lasted 5 years right???)
So they settled out of court....agreeing to completely rebuild a bone-yard AOD w/ new converter and shift kit.
After about a year and a half, that one started whining( people made me pop the hood...thought i had a charger in there)
The whole time..the car is only worth 14.40's???
At this point my buddy is going 12.60's for waaay less than what i have invested in trannies.
I didn't even rebuild it...I traded it for a 3 thousand dollar snowmobile.
I hated that car....it was about 7 years old w/ 105k on it and i had to get rid of it for 3 grand!!!! couldn't sell it the way it was and definitely wasn't going to rebuild again.
I think for the 3-4 grand you can spend on truly bulletproof (and still weak geared)AOD you can have a real auto trans to race with...a c-4 or power glide....hell, i thought about doing the art carr 700r4 swap.
I'm not just bustin balls...And there are people who love them....But not me.
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