Jakes Transmission Sanger TX

[Jake's Performance]

My experience as a car enthusiast and graduating up the ranks as a builder is that a shop that is damn GOOD at rebuilding a typical transmission for a stock or near stock vehicle may not be very good at a performance build at all.

And it's not due to a lack of ethic, quality, workmanship, or otherwise. It's just not their niche.

They may be able to build a 4L60E or 4L80E for a stock pickup that will last twice as long as the OEM unit did, but when you add 100 HP or more, they couldn't make it live if they spent 3 months and 10 units trying.

There are many "performance" shops that do decent run of the mill performance work. You're average shop that can build a TH350, TH400, or Powerglide for a weekend toy, street/strip car, or mild to moderate bracket racer.
Typically these shops use someone elses valve body and oftentimes upgraded parts.
Nothing wrong with this. Someone else did the design work and they get lucky or spend enough time to develop a good combination of parts that works.
That's all that most customers care about. It works...

Some shops are more advanced, actually designing parts, correcting faults in other designs or parts, and can actually figure out complex hydraulic circuits/problems.

To be honest,
CKPerformance is in the last category. Chris is a sharp guy. His QC is lacking. We all make mistakes, but some of us admit to them, correct the problem and keep going.

Other shops that are in the last category would be Hughes, ATI, TCI, Coan, Griner, FBPerformance, Extreme Automatics, RPM, and probably a dozen others I've forgotten to mention.

Some of the larger vendors are excellent but it's hard to talk to a real tech, but instead a salesman.

I know firsthand it's hard to be a smaller operation and do the building, answer the tech questions, and run the show.
Some customers won't talk to my other techs, they demand my attention even when my techs are more than capable of helping them. They aren't salesmen, they stand at the build benches alongside me and build, dyno, machine, etc.

I don't know which shops in TX ya'll have used. I don't know of many performance shops that do development. CircleD, Century, myself?
Art Carr is out of business, so is Redneck.

The best advice is to do your research, find a shop that fulfills your needs, see what they have out there that is similar to your combo working, and talk to them.

I refer customers all the time to other shops for transmission work depending on what they are looking for.

[Crazy Blu]

As soon as my va check comes ill be getting an 80e from you...