transmission Advice Melbourne, FL area

[SUBVET]

Presently reside in Melbourne Beach,FL.
Would appreciate any advice as to where to go and which is the best in your opinions for a 2005 , 3500 , SRW , 5" Magnaflow , W/TST upgrade.
Would like to make this somewhat bulletproof as with present mods.
THANK YOU in advance !

 

[sluper]

There will be lots of options on this but if I were looking for a transmission I would check the ATS site. Used one of their manifolds on the 04, good quality and from my reading all their products are well made to good standards.

 

[DonFitzwater]

Suncoast is somewhere in Florida. They seem to have a good reputation.

 

[sluper]

Agree that Suncoast in in Florida one of my buddies had a Suncoast torque converter on his 1997. He had no issues as far as I know Just have not read a lot about them and there does seem to be quite a few that are happy with ATS. There should be an ATS distributor installer in Fla.

 

[fox]

Suncoast is a good bet for you. The other company has a large number of dissatizfied customers.

 

[CharlieFoxtrot]

Suncoast is in Ft Walton, in the panhandle. I do not have one of their trannys in my truck, but in a previous career I put their units in several Fords in my fleet. The Fords all had stock power from 7.3s but were mercilessly abused, towing horse trailers, 5th wheel campers and such, well over 20K LB every week all over the country, and pulling special equipment up to 40K LB (!!!!) at low speed on private property, on roads for short distances, in rough, unpaved conditions and up loading ramps, and in other strange circumstances. They worked flawlessly and the service I got from Suncoast was second to none. This career, btw, was when I was with a world-famous business that is generally associated with Florida and involved enormous gray animals with long noses and people with strangely painted faces, big red noses and large, funny shoes. If you get my drift.

Suncoast does have "approved" installers who may be near you, and will also gladly help you as a do-it-yourselfer, or will help your favorite local mechanic with any questions he might have if installing a trans for you.

Another builder who is generating some buzz lately is Monster Transmissions in Brooksville FL. (not to be confused with Factory Tech Monster Box transmissions, which I think got bought by Jasper several years back) They're very near me. I have no relationship or any personal experience with them, but I am interested in checking them out.

Good luck
kevin