My ol beater tbird

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Reply #15 – March 02, 2019, 12:33:25 PM

Put a new shifter in the car this week went from a column shift to this tci diablo shifter kept missing shifts trying to work that column shifter and the nitrous so hopefully this works out better. I have the nitrous and launch control wired into the buttons on the shifter. Going to a race tonight so we will see how it does. Also I pulled the trigger on an aod monster transmission so within the next few weeks I'll he putting that in.

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Reply #16 – March 02, 2019, 02:01:54 PM

What?! No column slam shift skillz Dog ??? Hell, I can see why..sittin on them stock sponges. Surprised you dont end up

at the tree sacked out on those bean bags. Wheres the race buckets ?

I want to see a huge exchange intercooler where that passenger seat is next time you post a pic

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Reply #17 – March 02, 2019, 04:19:54 PM

Somebody has been looking through my Summit and Jegs cart haha

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Reply #18 – April 18, 2019, 09:46:54 PM

Finally got my trans from monster transmission got it installed and didn't have second gear, So I called them they told me it was my governor and they'd send out a new one so I'm hoping to have time to just swap out my governor from the old trans for now and see what happens, with any luck I'll have it fixed by this Saturday for a race. Also I got my hands on a turbo coupe header panel.

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Reply #19 – April 22, 2019, 09:07:15 AM

Looks good!
How did you make out with the governer replacement? Did you make it to the race?

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Reply #20 – April 22, 2019, 10:44:59 PM

The governor they overnighted me did not fix the problem, also the governor out of the old trans that I know worked did not fix it either.

Now, I seem to have also lost 3rd and 4th gear while driving it easy trying to get it back home so not the best weekend, and I did not make the race. I'll get it figured out soon and report back. The new trans has less than 50 miles on it.

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Reply #21 – April 24, 2019, 07:51:21 AM

Who makes that cowl hood Dog ?? Are they available pin on only or bolt down too ?

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Reply #22 – April 24, 2019, 09:10:42 AM

Vfn fiberglass its a 5" extended cowl. They do have bolt on options as well just not for the extended style for obvious reasons. Took them about 2 months from the time I ordered it until it got to my door. Fit was very nice from the beginning, did not have to do a lot of tpuppies.

http://www.vfnfiberglass.com/8488tbird.htm

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Reply #23 – April 24, 2019, 03:28:38 PM

Browsing the F-body forums, I've seen a lot of bad press about Monster transmissions. They would help a lot of guys up to a certain point, and then cut communication. Be careful with them.

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Reply #24 – April 24, 2019, 08:48:01 PM

Well I believe I'm in the cut communications phase now because they won't respond to me anymore and I have been surprisingly calm with them. So now to plan my next steps why the car sits in my garage and stares at me.

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Reply #25 – April 24, 2019, 09:55:46 PM

Man, that sucks. I hope they make it right with you.

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Reply #26 – April 30, 2019, 10:25:27 PM

Update, I decided to just buy a rebuild kit and performance valve body for my old transmission so I'll get that one going and take out the monster transmission junk and see what happened.

I've tried countless times to get ahold of monster transmission for help, even for just technical advice but no one will contact me back about anything. So, learned my lesson there unfortunately.

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Reply #27 – May 01, 2019, 05:15:47 PM

If you paid for it by credit card, call your credit card company and file a dispute and have them do a charge back on Monster transmission for selling you a junk transmission.

They can have their junk trans back, shipping on their dime. You don't owe them a penny, actually they owe you for trans fluid, labor , etc but you'd never get that short of litigation.

Sounds like they have a business model of ripping people off. One day, their luck will run out and they'll do it to the wrong person.

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Reply #28 – May 01, 2019, 07:57:12 PM

Quote from: Outsidedog – on April 30, 2019, 10:25:27 PM

Update, I decided to just buy a rebuild kit and performance valve body for my old transmission so I'll get that one going and take out the monster transmission junk and see what happened.

I've tried countless times to get ahold of monster transmission for help, even for just technical advice but no one will contact me back about anything. So, learned my lesson there unfortunately.

That sucks. Hopefully you get it worked out, and your money back.

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Reply #29 – May 02, 2019, 08:23:05 AM

Document everything including when you called Monster Transmission then call your credit card company. Might take a month, but you CC will get to the bottom of it.

Sorry you are going through this. I went through something similar a few years back.