I talked to him and he thought it could be a bearing. Since there was no catastrophic event and fluid looked clean it's likely a simple fix in a rebuild. I thought about having him rebuild it but he had no cores at the time and I was eventually talked into go to the Magnum XL.
I'm hoping I like it and it works well in the car. It was definitely more expensive to go that route but it seemed to make sense from what I was told.
lol. Yeah those were some definite pro's. I went with the wide ratio closest to stock. Are you running a magnum XL?
Yes 2.66 first and a 4.0 rear gear.
Hopefully I didn't go wrong with the 2.97 ratio trans. I have 3.73's in the rear. Is yours in a GT500? did you do anything to cover the big hole in the trans where the shifter comes through? The original seal and plate were too far back now.
The 2.97/3.73 is a better combo for many, I’d say for street pulls and especially launching on bias ply tires.
Yeah it still seemed like a good drag combo on slicks for me. I'm at 700 RWHP now but I will probably be content in that range with this car. I ended up buying a mustang GT rubber lower boot that supposedly fits the hole correctly and seals to the shifter so hopefully thats good.
I did the Modern Driveline kit (MDL) on my 13gt. It was a complete kit, nicely put together. The only part that I bought on my own was the clutch.
Saw them l(MDL) in my search , thanks for reply. It just didn’t specify Gt500, so wanted to make sure I get all the parts I needed.
So for my 07 I was told I needed pigtail harnesses or a gps module I believe. I opted to get the pigtail harnesses that I didn't need. All that was needed was to extend the one harness. One thing I didn't see was that with the different shifter setup the new shifter will be in a slightly different location in the tunnel and a 2005-2014 mustang GT rubber boot will be required to seal the hole up properly. Now that I have 100 miles or so on the trans I can give a small amount of feedback. It shifts nice and overall I think it feels tighter and quieter. However lugging in 4th gear is noisy. It's the only gear I notice it in but it's loud. I'm told it's normal by others but my TR6060 didn't do that.
Thanks man for feedback. Was going back and forth and decide on oem tranny from Ford and will be adding a cooler to it. I’ve been road racing since 16’, so knock on wood it held up quite well
I don't know if you could go wrong either way. The previous owner of my car road raced it very hard and had over 30k on the trans. I put about 10k street miles on it at a bit higher HP level. He did however have to have the stock trans replaced at around 7k do to a failure road racing. I put some more miles on mine this weekend and I'm really liking it and it seems like the trans is wearing in and it's working even better.
