Thread: 99 gtp...

The end caps are rusted off of the magnaflow res its hardly worth scrap. Ive re welded them back on twice now. I was planning on getting a MBRP 30" resonator with a 3" in/3" out and run most the way down the center of the car from the down pipe back getting rid of the magnaflow res then adapt to the 2.5" piping further back. Then I rode in a car with a ZZP 3" catback that had a 30" res on it and it was the loudest miserable POS ever. My car is not even all that loud I just wanted it to be a little more stealth and 0 drone for those 1000mile road trips.

Pulled the trans out AGAIN! lol....going on a 2000 mile road trip figured I would go through, refresh a few things. Some people change their oil before a road trip, I rebuild my transmission. That GTP life...



Its getting a fresh stock convertor this time, mine has 30k miles on it. Its getting another fresh chain just because. This one only had 12 or 13k on it but I dont really ever tear it apart and NOT change the chain. This time I am also doing a mechanical diode input/3rd sprag. I was still using the original 99 one in this trans and the elements were falling out of it when I popped it apart. Ive been meaning to do that upgrade. I wanted to do the Sonnax billet 3rd piston but my 12 plate 3rd stackup still looks like new and Dacco didnt have one on the shelf so thats not going to happen this time around. Ill explain the rest with pictures.

The raybestos blue 2nd gear clutches were not so fresh. I even have 7 in 2nd now and they still got toasty. Trying the Borg warner hi energy plates this time around.




The input clutches were still working some how but they were torched, This is the one clutch set that I dont think would have made the 2000 mile trip. These didnt have much life left in them. These were 4 raybestos blues and 1 standard, another custom experimental thing. I was trying to get 5 clutches in the input pack but I only had 4 blues. I used the one stocker to take up the clearance and some how it is the only one that isnt black. I think TEP dave was dead-on when he said these raybestos clutches drag and burn up. They dont even make raybestos HD plates that work with the diode sprag so we will see how it works out with 5 03-up stock style plates.







Stock sprag beat up and falling apart.

I think this whore finally needs a name, my thread title was too long, now its too short

Transmission is done and back in. My custom built sub finally came in! So the trunk is complete, that is good.

Looks good man, I love all the trunk space haha.

Love SA audio I always wanted some of their 8s that can handle like 500rms just to have

How did the 4th stack look?

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

How did the 4th stack look?

4th looked like brand new still. ~20k miles on it. Cant figure out how im torching input and 2nd clutches though. I have the separator plate drilled out pretty aggressive, Sonnax boost valve and AFL update, transgo shift kit, pump internals look like new still. Last time they were damaged we took all the waves out and put extra frictions in every stack. A lot of the aftermarket parts for big power guys are to address issues with 3rd. My 3rds still looked like brand new.

Well it made it to tulsa again! 1k miles down 1k to go. Even got the guest parking lol

Took the car on a 1600 mile trip from Vassar, Mi to Norfolk, Va over the 4th. First time having major issues on the road. Somehow lost the sidecover gasket sitting in DC traffic with 105* ambient temps and 230* trans temps. Was losing around 1qt per hour. Didnt even realize I had problems until I got down there and it was leaving puddles in the driveway. I jacked it up and took the wheel off while I was down there to try and fix it. There is oil running out of the back corner of the bottom of the side cover. The axle seal and square cut cover seal are dry. It is running right out where the second torx bolt forward from the rear is. Had to stop and pour 2qts of oil in the trans every 2 hours all the way home. Nice oil screen across the back by the time I got home. Sat in traffic for 8 hours trying to get out of Virginia on the return trip. It ended up taking 4 gallons of ATF and 18 hours.
This is what I saw all day

Originally Posted by jayroca

Man I wish I knew you were local would have been good to see a red clone of mine modded lol

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First time making the trip, I've got a friend in the navy down in Norfolk. On the way down MD was a breeze except for sitting in traffic for 2hrs on the Capitol beltway. On the way back up it took me 8hrs to make it from Norfolk to DC area. I95 NB was a parking lot for 140 miles.

Avoid I95 if at all possible..

That was the problem I didn't have a choice. I had to take 64 to 95. The only alternate route was surface streets. I left Norfolk at 11am and I didn't make it to 495 (140 miles away) until 7pm. I tried to get off of 95 at Fredericksburg and take US-1 north to avoid it. It wasn't any faster than sitting in the traffic jam though. Still took me 2 hrs to go 20 miles. Got back on 95 at dumfries and all the traffic was gone. Breezed through 495 didn't hit any stopped traffic the rest of the way home. I was just trapped in Virginia with no way out, and the longer I sat in traffic the more fluid it dumped out.
Funny part was even screwing around on surface streets and dumping atf in every hour. Way up in PA around 9-10 pm I ended up next to a chick in a droptop camaro that I was next to in traffic trying to get across the bridge out of Norfolk at 11am

Hows the new transmission working out other than the leak? You still have no wave plates?

Yea the trans works great, I've got 5k miles on it this time around already. I haven't had waved plates in it since last spring I've never noticed a difference. My dad loves to pull the "that's what you get for building a race car for a DD" card every time I have a issue but this stupid leak has nothing to do with that LOL. The sidecover gasket dumping oil for no reason on a 1600 mile trip after being dry for 3 months since the last build, that's just my ****ty luck...

Oh yea, I have that luck as well, lol. I just went through my transmission, and everything seems good so far. I wish I woulda talked to you about the whole deleting the wave plates thing, but I'm tossing around the idea of building my old transmission up a bit then swapping it in place of the one I just went through. What did you end up using for a TC?

Stock jtfm