I broke my aode about 100 miles after I put on the blower. Had it beefed up and no problems at all. I have a friend who has a stock aode and he has not been kind to it since his procharger went on and no problems for 5 years now.
Most people that drive sports cars wouldn't consider an automatic transmission. Of course there are exceptions - those that have track demons, or those that found the *perfect* car, except that it had an auto (I almost bought one, but held out). Still, there are those that prefer not to shift.
The "most people" you speak of... are the ones I LOVE to race. After the race, they rarely come back to talk. Many of them just drive out the exit of the track and go home. Oh the stories I have from people bashing my AODE, then seeing nothing but my taillights. I love it. To me it's worth keeping the auto for this reason alone. The fact that I can eat a burger going through town while driving, my g/f can "safely" drive my car, and I can get MORE performance out of a nitrous setup is just awesome. You say there is less performance, but think about the juice for a second. A 5 speed nitrous shot is on, off, on, off, on, off, on..... an AODE driver? ON...........
i just changed my filter the other day, got rid of the chattering a little bit from 2nd to 3rd... i only emptied out about 3qts of fluid, that **** was BLACK!!!!
the magnet in the tranny pan had ALOT of metal shavings in it... and im only @ 99k
...I'm guilty of killing mine...with the TFS set up...3400 stall.....think I fried it........oh well......got to pay to play...give a reason to cuss and throw wrenches.....
my converter crapped out on a stock motor after about 110K miles, had the whole shudder thing goin on, felt like i was goin over tons of lil speed bumps. 5speed cured that
Did it do the sudder at certain rpms? Mine does something like that but only at 1300~1500rpms and only when the cars at normal opertaing temps...never does it when its cold? So it was just the converter?