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Sounds like you got Corbin's luck!!
Anyone broke a BTS 5r?
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BOSS450
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Yea must be a 450 thing
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Ya, must be a gearing and weight thing.
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Ya dude, your looking for a 600hp truck not a 900.
How is deciding how to spend my 5,000+ dollars pointless? There isnt exactly a clearcut path here. Just looking for more input as all.
Are you offering to pay for my BTS 5r if I break it with 600hp?
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You act like you are the first person ever to be deciding on building a 5r. Also, if it breaks, Brian has a pretty good warranty.
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Lets say no one ever broke a BTS period and you get one and it breaks?
The point Charles is trying to make is that sh!t breaks and isn't "bullet proof".
I don't even own an auto and I am with you. If I am about to spend $5k on anything, I want to know every possible detail before I buy. From my observations, I will say BTS has a great reputation.
Oh yeah, don't worry about Charles...from the posts I have seen from him, his goal in life seems to be to try p#ss someone off. Don't give him the satisfaction.
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Doesn't matter which way you go. You can break either. At that point you will instantly think you should have gotten the other. Don't make it so complicated.
Nothing can be guaranteed, and as long as Brian will warranty his transmissions against a stock injector'd truck then you will be fine. There are a hell of a lot of people out there running way more power than what your planning on doing. most have good luck on a 5r. There are very few people running 4r conversions and even less with a bunch of miles on them.
Just take a stab at one. Let us know how it works. A lot of people have given their input but it still comes down to being your truck to live with.
Nothing can be guaranteed, and as long as Brian will warranty his transmissions against a stock injector'd truck then you will be fine. There are a hell of a lot of people out there running way more power than what your planning on doing. most have good luck on a 5r. There are very few people running 4r conversions and even less with a bunch of miles on them.
Just take a stab at one. Let us know how it works. A lot of people have given their input but it still comes down to being your truck to live with.
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How is asking if anyone has ever broken a 5R helping you decide? The 4R is supposed to be the "unbreakable" option in your "decision" right? Well I've broken them repeatedly at 600hp day in and day out street driving.
And here you sit asking if anyone's broken the 5R. My point being, yes people will break every version of the 5R, built by everyone who ever built one... plenty, loads, multiple times... if they apply decent power and do it often enough. The same is true for the 4R.
Make the decision based on whether or not you like the shift feel of a trans like a 5R, vs a stacked planetary trans like the 4R, or on whether or not you think that extra gear is important in the 5R, or whether or not you feel like going through the trouble of swapping things over, so on and so forth.
If you put down 600hp daily, and actually USE that power every day, you're going to break EITHER of them unless Jesus Christ built it for you out of unobtanium.
Other than that, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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Thanks for your input, now leave room for others to provide theirs.
I'm simply gathering everyone's experiences with them. If you wind up being the only person to consistently break both, then I can discount your experiences as an outlier.
Right now there are still strong opinions going both ways. Some say I'll never break a BTS 5r on stock fuel, others say they would only go 4R.
dude honestly the only way your trans is not gonna break is by leaving it on the shipping crate it arrives on. what your looking for doesnt exist, if it did we would all be running the same trans. id go with the 5r seeing you dont plan to add fuel. plenty of 5r's out there holding 6-700hp.
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5r, i threw alot at my stocker, probably 30 1/4 mile passes at 571hp an a few more with some spray, plenty of horsing around an racing ricers on the street to, a properly built 5r will treat you just fine at 600hp as long as your not stupid with it, hell if you break the bts 5r see if you can have them exchange you a 4r idk how they do it but if they just exchange you an new trans the 5r an 4r + plus conserion stuff is basically the same price i believe
smokinstroker
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Talked to Brian this week actually.
My 5r from him costs just as much as a "fully upgraded" 4r from him.
I will be running my 5r for now, and if i break it once the kinks are worked out of the 4r pursue that.
Honestly you should be fine man. I ran a BTS 5r in my 6.0 for 2 years on 37s and 35s countless track passes, burn outs, and boosted launches.
Okay fine or your way.. LOL
It will really boil down to what Brian will warranty for me. If he'll gaurantee the 5r at my planned power levels then I'll give it a shot.
If he isnt comfortable with that(which he has already told me), then i'll go 4r.
thanks again guys.
If he isnt comfortable with that(which he has already told me), then i'll go 4r.
thanks again guys.
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