Best shop to rebuild 48re in oklahoma

[timelessconstructionllc]

I'm looking to have my transmission rebuilt and i've been told by numberous people that the 48re can be made to hold up to 600 hp with no problem and it can be done for significantly less than buying a built transmission. I would love to buy a built transmission but it just isn't in my budget. Can anybody tell me the best place in the Oklahoma City area to take my transmission to get it beefed up?

 

[timelessconstructionllc]

Did I ask the wrong question or something? Nobody knows a good tyranny shop that's reasonably priced?

 

[Wertles]

I can't give you any information for Oklahoma but I was in the same boat as you here in NY. Best advice I can give you is talk to ALL the transmission shops, ask what they would do to beef up the trans and see if it matches up to what you have in mind. I found one shop referred to me by a friend and the owner spent 2. 5 hours talking with me about different options and answering my questions. He also had the best warranty of all the shops. The 3 other shops spent no more than 5 min with me and did not earn my business. I have only 1500 miles on the rebuild so far and it has performed as expected. This weekend will be the first long haul with a load so this will be the initial true test. Listen to your gut and good luck. Cerb can give you a good idea of what is needed to make a good trans if you are unsure.

 

[timelessconstructionllc]

Thank you . I appreciate the insight. Where do I find cerb? Cause I'm pretty much clueless ad to what I need and I don't know a good TC from a posTC etc etc

 

[tkerrigan]

You could call Standard transmission or (Bluminals?), they advertise in the TDR magazine and are excellent shops. I think that Standard will ship a transmission built to you specs to a good shop for installation. I'm sure that they would lead you through the entire process and make it easy.

 

[Wertles]

Cerbersiam is a TDR member here. He has many posts dealing with transmissions. Give him a PM or wait an hour or two and I'm sure he'll chime in.

 

[timelessconstructionllc]

Ok cool. thank you. That would help tremendously cause, i know i need a bunch of stuff but i don't have a clue what is good and what is going to hold up to 600-700hp at the rear wheels.

 

[LBARTLETT]

I have not had a Goerend 48re but I did have a 47re and was very pleased, you could contact them and see if there is a certified installer in Edmond



if there is he might be a worthwhile local rebuilder saving you from buying a fully built transmission, just a thought

 

[HBarlow]

Nothing short of a full high performance towing transmission built by one of the big and well known names we all know on TDR, DTT, Goerend, etc. will hold up to 600-700 hp. If you expect to run a truck with that kind of power on a transmisison built by a local rebuild shop you are destined to be very disappointed.

Be prepared to spend $6k-7k for the transmission you will need.

 

[NavyDood]

Nothing short of a full high performance towing transmission built by one of the big and well known names we all know on TDR, DTT, Goerend, etc. will hold up to 600-700 hp. If you expect to run a truck with that kind of power on a transmisison built by a local rebuild shop you are destined to be very disappointed.

Be prepared to spend $6k-7k for the transmission you will need.

Exactly^^^

Give Dave a call at Goerend and tell him what you are looking for. He won't sell you what you don't need. If there is a local installer, then that makes your life very simple.

 

[cerberusiam]

i know i need a bunch of stuff but i don't have a clue what is good and what is going to hold up to 600-700hp at the rear wheels.

A lot depends on what you are intending to do with it. If you want to make 600-700 HP on a dyno just to do it and you use the truck normally the rest of the time, thats one thing.



If you want to go to the track and do boosted 4x4 launches time after time, hook up to sled and drop the hammer on weekends, or do a full tilt 100+ mph boogie across the desert to clear the cobwebs tha's another story. :-laf



DTT, Goerends, Garmons, and others can do both if you tell them what you want to do and spend.



You can either spend a lot of money or learn restraint. Kinda back to the old question how fast do ya wanna go?

 

[timelessconstructionllc]

Its my daily driver so i try to take pretty good care of it, well all except for the skinny pedal. I'm pretty hard on it. I might drag race every now and again and i want to be able to 30 foot dual tandem with a hoe on it from time to time. Mostly just looking for something that won't fall apart if i do drop the hammer regularly.

 

[cerberusiam]

Yeah, if you want to play hard and tow heavy with impunity its gonna cost a chunk of change.



The towing is the easiest to build for. The racing and wanting to hammer it, budget at least $5-6k for lots of billet parts. You will likely break it anyway under the right circumstances but it may take longer.



Your not going to tow at 600 HP, more like about 400-450 is going to be the limit there so its relatively easy to build to that scenario. If you limit your racing to that also you can get by cheaper, but, if you want to crank the fuel up with a big turbo and do real drag racing with 20 psi boosted launches, $$ca-ching$$.



A Goerend installer close to you would be a good choice. There are DTT installers in DFW area. Garmons and Suncoast you would probably have to order.

 

[timelessconstructionllc]

For some reason I just feel like I really need 500hp. What would my best option be that could handle that?

 

[cerberusiam]

For some reason I just feel like I really need 500hp. What would my best option be that could handle that?

Slippery slope coming up, more is never enough! :-laf



For that I would do one of Goerends $1200 custom triple disk TC's with lower stall and higher efficiency. They are monsters and I believe lifetime warranty on internals.



Opie input shaft, not the fat shaft, composite flex plate, billet servos and band hardware. Leave your stock intermediate as its pretty tough. Keep the stock output shaft for the fuse in the system. If it breaks it generally is not going to trash eveyrthing.



Don't think you would need a billet drum or the billet planetaries but a upgrade tot he OD unit would not hurt.



Upgrade the clutch count in direct forward, and OD clutch packs and add billet apply pistons where available. DTT has some good stuff for that.



Use Raybestos Blue clutches all the way thru and Kolene steels. Replace the weakest thrust washers with upgrdes or roller bearings and have the trans setup on the tight side of the specs.



That should give you a solid unit that will take hard work and play. Finding a builder that knows how to put it all together is the last item and the hardest.

 

[timelessconstructionllc]

thank you cerb, i'm going to try to get ahold of dave at goerend's next week and i'm going to read him that list, verbatim. and see what i can get all of that done for.

 

[LBARTLETT]

IMHO you have make a smart choice. I know there are probably his certified installers closer but there's a great shop In Madisonville Texas that did my 01'



My understanding is the Goerend certified installers have spent a week at Dave's shop helping rebuild and understand how the transmission's work and how they should act once installed



keep the thread going please

 

[zzman]

Calll Bluementhal's in OKC

 

[timelessconstructionllc]

Ok. I'm not having so much luck getting ahold of dave at Goerends. You have to go thru a long drawn out recording when you call, only to find out that he's not one of the options for people to talk to. Anybody have any suggestions?

 

[Wertles]

Leave a message. They will call you back.