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Originally Posted by sleepydsm
I have a Shep stage 3 but only make half the horsepower. Its awesome shifting at redline with no worrys, actually being able to downshift, and having a nice smooth tranny. Car has a 4 spider center diff, double syncro 2nd, "HD 3/4th gear", the stronger Chromoloy forks (option I paid extra for), etc. All the weak points are addressed, but honestly just get a Shep Stage 4, its a few hundred bucks more. I'd also advise against a welded center diff or spool. Get the 4 spider.
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Sounds like you're really happy with your shep and went all out with it. Thanks for the opinion Keven!
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Originally Posted by Halon
I'm running just a TRE stage 1 with the 4-spider diff option. I never really pushed it yet, but so far I have no complaints. Great guy to deal with. He was very helpful on the phone, and willing to answer any and all of my questions. He threw in some shifter linkages for me as well since my tranny situation was all goofy.
He also didn't charge me a core charge, so I got to keep my old tranny and he just shipped me the rebuilt one. Nice because I only had to pay shipping 1 way.
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Did you pay extra for no core charge? I'm really leaning towards the tre stage 3 at the moment and everything I've read about tre has been really positive.
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Originally Posted by Super Bleeder!!
I would get a complete evo3 gearset installed by Jack.
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Jacks premium build comes with evo 3 3rd/4th gear but comes with their own machined double synchro 2nd and 1st and is an extra 380 for an evo 3 1st. With the extra evo 3 first it makes it more expensive than the shep and tre which already have the evo 3 1st.
Any reasoning behind reccomending Jack, what do you have in your car?
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Originally Posted by brando
i would do the jacks premium, they have been proven to be more than good enough on more than one high horse street build.
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Jack does have a lot of good information on his website and seems everybody has really good things to say about Jack as well. I've still got a lot of more reading to do before I spend so much money on a tranny.
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Originally Posted by JET
I have a Shep stage 3 with billet shift forks also. I am making the same HP you are and it has held up well for 4 years (probably 15k miles). The welded center diff really does suck, get the 4 gear spider. If you want to lock them up going to the track, throw a welded VC on.
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Dang, only 15k in 4 years?! I put 3k'ish miles on my car in the 2 months I drove it and did at least a quick pull to get up to the speed limit every time I drove it
Have you had any problems at all with itl in the 4 years you've had it in the car? Have you always been making as much power as you do now? Also how come you guys went with the steel forks?
According to Jack they really aren't needed with their double synchros
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Thanks again for all the opinions and the posts. Really does help the decision process. If anybody else just has good info, please post the links. I always like to do a lot of reading before I blow so much damn money.
Oh yea, anybody have a welded center diff that I could get a ride in and maybe scare me away from it?
