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Message: [QUOTE="cbuttre835, post: 626998, member: 1190"] I have a "buddy built" transmission with less than 2,000 miles on it but I like it. He used factory clutches, factory planets (upgraded 4 and 6 gear ones though), and a Superior valve body. He mentioned clutches stripping out and even steered me towards a billet twin disc converter instead of a triple... they had the fewest issues with those due to the plates being a tad thicker, he said. He tuned the shifting in the valve body and the truck shifts perfectly. I had done the 'sonnax-and-springs' and it shifted fine, but was a tad hard in retrospect - but better than the slow, mushy factory shifts. He dialed it in perfect. I am running 2 Hayden 1679 coolers with the radiator "cooler" bypassed and I hardly see any movement on the gauge unloaded. I did get it up to 135 deg. while grossing 19,000+ hauling rock in a dump trailer. My buddy has spent 30 years building transmissions - they are the warranty shop for basically all the car dealers in town - he has seen lots of stuff break and knows what the weak points are. I priced Swamp's too and they were price competetive; they have a couple packages less beefy than a full BTS-type build and they are local to me too... but it came down to simple economics. I got in mine for less than $3k and it should hold 450 HP he said. For me, the cost, the wait, extra cost of shipping, and paying a local shop $400 or so to R&R (I don't have the tools or comfort level to do that myself) a BTS made it a near $6,000 option. [/QUOTE]

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