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Message: [QUOTE="uw mitch, post: 1030579, member: 13665"] Thanks Lysons! Continuing on...so a while after I met Wes, I was taking my truck in to the nearby Midas for some brake work. As it turns out, brakes don't work so well when a pad get so worn that it falls out...but that's a different story. So while the Midas guys have my truck on the lift they notice the yoke on the transfer case has some play in it. They want what I thought was pretty stupid money for the job, so I called Wes to see if it's something he could/wanted to do. Indeed yes...so that was either my first mistake or the best thing ever. While I was having my transfer case done, I asked about some replacement shocks. He got me fixed up with Fox's - turns out one of my shocks was completely dead - what could I expect with a 14 year old truck. Also while I'm there I poke just a little bit at what kind of performance goodies he'd recommend for a ~400HP build. He piqued my interest by telling me he was working on a T4 kit of his own! Of course like a good trusted adviser he said supporting mods first. So the first most obvious one for a 4R100 is whose trans? BTS? John Wood? Other? I ended up going with a Trans+Medic trans from Cory in Gresham, OR for multiple reasons - Wes runs Cory's trans in his truck, the price was very reasonable, and mainly Cory is local and in talking to him about the goals for my truck, he said it'd be no problem, and IF I were to run into a problem I could have my truck taken in, instead of being dead on the side of the road and needing to have someone ship my trans somewhere. Photos: 1. Trans+Medic shop in Gresham OR 2. They build their transmissions using Precision of New Hampton torque converters 3. Another shot of the converter 4. Cory usually has a 4R100 built and on the shelf for quick turn around installs 5. Another shot of the trans If course the simultaneous important thing was to get new tunes from Jody to accommodate the different valve body, which is a TransGo Tugger. So with trans done, I figured I would sit tight, and do injectors and hpop at the same time as the T4 kit. But that was not quite how it has worked out, but that's okay, having a staged build-up is actually kind of nice because I've been able to dyno in Wes' shop at each stage of the build. More later... ~Mitch [/QUOTE]