Need an opinion on trannys

[sleepydsm]

Pretend you were in the market for buying a modded DSM. Lets say it has 450awhp on a DynoD. If this car had a stock tranny that worked great, would that have an effect on you buying the car?

[aaronspeed]

Nope not at all. You can have that trans modified when the time comes for $1300 that will handle a lot more than that. if it shifts fine now don't worry about it till something happens.

[goodhart]

I would be a little skeptical, my car was making ~250 AWHP DD when my freshly rebuilt stock tranny completely granaded. The shitty thing about it was that it had maybe had 10-12 launches, none of which were even within 3 months before it took a poop on me. I was just doing normal driving making a 3-4 shift and it went BOOM. Next tranny I hope to buy will be a Shep/TRE/Jack's

[turbotalon1g]

Hell no, I would just keep in mind that it would be something to upgrade, but a lot of people are making that much power or more on a stock trans, some refuse to pay that much to build it.

[Goat Blower]

For that power level, you don't really need anything more than a good rebuild by Shep for around $1000, or you could splurge and get the 4-spider diff for added strength. If you can verify the current stock tranny is good as-is, there's no reason it can't handle that power already.

[Matt D.]

If it drove good I wouldn't think twice about it.

[slowbubblecar]

Depends. If my goals were to make 600+ hp out of the car I was buying, I would put more efforts in finding a car with a built tranny if I was buying. If I was looking to keep it around 450whp, I wouldn't care as much.

[blageo23]

Id say it depends on the price. If you want alot for a 1g and I was looking it better have a built tranny. But then again just because it has a built tranny doesnt mean it will last. right Kevin?

[craig]

I ran my old 1g stock tranny with 420awhp for a while then it grenaded.

[sleepydsm]

Yeah my Shep stage 3 blew up...