Transmissions and Drivetrain Need help with your trans? Problems with your axle?

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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 08:43 PM
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Car: 1989 trans am
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shift kit ?

what is the easest kit to install that will let me control the up shifts. any help will be much aprecated
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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 08:46 PM
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B&M makes the simplest to install kit. It locks the accumulators with spacers, needs 3 or 4 holes drilled in seperator plate, removes 2 springs from valve body(1 is replaced with a steel rod) and a pump spring.
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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 08:47 PM
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If you are looking to change the rpm points that the trans shifts, governor recalibration is the answer.
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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 09:52 PM
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thanks for all the help. the shop that rebuilt my trans got the car to shift right most of the time, after i sent the car back 3 times. when the reverse and first went out. now the trans shifts fine sometimes but others it lags, and when i get on it will redline unless i ease off the gas. i know they did a poor job of the rebuild and i want a foolproof way to fix it untill i can throw a t56 in the car.
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 12:25 AM
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The Trans-Go Performance Shift kit that I have, offers smooth part throttle shifts, and firm WOT shifts. It includes the Corvette servo, large boost valves, and "modified" Trans-Go Performance Shift kit, and necessary seals. If your transmission is in good shape, then this kit should do what you want. Let me know if I can be of help?
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 07:57 AM
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Car: 1989 trans am
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how hard is it to install i have never worked on a transmission befor but i have done about everything else on my car. do i have to pull the trans out? thats not a major problem because this summer the motor is coming out anyway(the preivous oner beat the crap out of the car. its got 61,000 mi and the motor acts like its got 160,000 mi) thanks for the help.
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 02:18 PM
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Originally posted by Pro Built Automatics
The Trans-Go Performance Shift kit that I have, offers smooth part throttle shifts, and firm WOT shifts. It includes the Corvette servo, large boost valves, and "modified" Trans-Go Performance Shift kit, and necessary seals. If your transmission is in good shape, then this kit should do what you want. Let me know if I can be of help?

i 2nd that... i have seen the B&M kit make transmission go out faster the tran-go kit have alot more involed in the whole thing... with the tran-go kit you redo just about the whole vavle body i had this kit in my 700 before i swaped to a TH350 i have a video of my car at RT 66 Race way with TONS and i mean TONS of VHT on the ground and i still brake the ties lose goign into 3rd gear (street tires not slicks) whats that mean to you.... the faster the shift the less slipage the longer the transmisison will last you

also with the trans-go kit you can hodl any RPM at any gear in other words if you put it into 1st gear you can drive that car untill your bouncing off the Rev limter and it will not shift untill you tell it to you can also do the same for down shifting

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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 03:58 PM
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i think ill go with the trans go kit, thanks for all the help i know ill need more in the future so thanks in advance.
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 04:13 PM
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i see you live in chciago i have a built 700R4 transmisison with a trans-go skift kit already installed trans has less then 1,000 miles on it and has some other mods done to it... its up for sale if you want a trans that is already built up
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 09:18 PM
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Car: 1989 trans am
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if i had money id buy it, i just dropped all the cash i had getting the trans rebuilt. i was stuck because i use my car for work and every day without it i lost money so i went to the place that quoted me the least time to do it in and i got a crappy rebuild that i had to take back many times to get somewhat right.
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