Okay first off this not to start a trans war by any means. Is anybody running a BD trans in your truck? ( I know about DTT lots of info on here) I am looking into one as well as some others (that are located in Canada) Shipping from the states and duties if any will be a pain in the butt. What are your impressions overall, I just got a price bit higher than some others but theres a dealer with in an hour of me. There will be no drag racing sled pulling or what not, daily driver maybe tow a bit down the road and generally drive it with a heavy foot.I am looking for a honest 300-350 hp to the ground. What do you think.

 

I'm sure it will be fine at that leval or higher. I have a Goerand set up and love it!

 

i've installed a couple in customers veichles. all have been happy.

 

I have BD's Single disk dual clutch surface billet converter, updated clutch packs, updated planetaries and a rebuilt valve body and shift kit. Mine holds great now and 3 people around town had there trannies done like mine and they are running over 500 ponies with no problems. I only have 5,000 miles on my tranny but I have a gut feeling that if my stocker lasted as long as it did then this will outlast me owning this truck. Just make sure that you are getting a new converter because mine was bought from a wherhouse and was one from the "bad batch" which I am told is when BD used a different company for their applying compound of the plates for around 6 months and they just come apart at around 5000 miles, needless to say my first one happened to be the "faulty" converter. BD pays the company I had do the work so it was all under warranty but now I have a brand brand new tranny and I was kinda upset that it happend to me but I can understand how hard it would be to track all of those converters by their serial numbers. Also when you send the faulty converter in they send you a new one right off of the assembly line so it will not happen for sure! I'm going for 350-400 hp as well and my shop said this tranny would be more than enough pulling over 10k all the time. Hope it helps.

Jered

 

If your goal is just an honest 350, just buy a valvebody for 450 bucks, less if used, buy a new converter for 1200 bucks and be done with it. If you don't have the skills yourself and a shop is gonna pull it, you might as well have them freshen it up, but all that should still be less that buying a "big name" full blown tranny. You don't need that stuff, unless you might get bitten by the HP bug and want 500 HP in a year.

 

I've ran there transmission, before. I don't like the LX converter (low stall). For a truck in your power range, BD is a good buy. Just change the transmission oil often and it will last. I haven't follow BD for a while but their X converter wasn't too bad. I just don't like the idea of low stall converters, it makes the truck to sluggish on spool-up and pushes on the brakes pretty hard at stop lights. I've ran three different types of transmissions and converters, hopefully this one will be the last one. It gets expensive, its been the worst part of the truck. If you tow heavy, you might consider upgrading your tranny cooler.