Level 10 Transmissions

[rainmaker]

*Flame suit on*

www.levelten.com

Looking for the reputation of a transmission builder up in NJ. This is for a non-syty application. Anyone here have any experience with Level 10 transmissions? I hear all kinds of stuff on these guys and am looking for help from my SY/TY brethren. I know the Supra guys think they're crap, but BW tells me Nissan guys love them. Everywhere else I look I find the same thing. DSM guys are mixed on them, but Honda guys love em. I'm thinking it's like most vendors out there. No one is perfect, and when a mistake is made a vocal minority is the only source of info. That's why I’m hoping someone on the SYTY board has credible reliable information on these guys.

Anyone?

 

[Tydriver]

Had a Level 10 kit for my Tbird SC that I no longer own. What a joke of a kit it is/was. Hardly any instructions, had to buy my own gaskets (between the valve body plates) and pan gaskets. Also had to buy a HAYNES manual because their kit was such a joke.

I called and bitched and bitched and bitched, cost me about $10-15 in tech support phone calls, in addition to the initial kit price, the Haynes manual I had to purchase and the misc gaskets.

To top it all off, I barely noticed any difference in the kit's performance, the car shifted almost like stock.

It was later removed and replaced with a kit from Baumann Engineering. I was quite pleased with the end results of that kit. The odd part is, my buddy who is a big Ford Nut had a Gen 1 lightning that he had their Truck Trans kit in, and that thing was a monster on the shifts. This kit I had for my SC was like a HONDA shifting.

Another friend has a 300Z TT and he says they make the killer setup for those auto cars. My experience however was less than favorable. I would avoid them myself, but thats because I've gotten burned.

 

[Captain Morgan]

thats Level 10 in NJ huh...............

RUN, do not walk away from them...

I have heard both good and bad, more bad than good and the bad ones were REALLY bad.

In all fairness the might be "ok" with the import stuff, but even that takes them forever and a day to get anything done.


If your looking to send your transmission to NJ, might I suggest Dynotech Performance. Now owned and operated by Eric Schertz, he is well know in the Turbo Buick community for his 200R4's as well as the Impala SS and F-Body communitys for his 700R4's. I am running one of his Hi-Pro trannies right now with a ProTorque 10.5" 2800 low stall converter and I couldnt be happier.

 

[rainmaker]

Damnit. Oh well....back to the drawing board. Thanks for the info guys. Guess I'll keep gassing it till the tranny goes boom. With my luck that'll be about an hour....