The critical connection: Why proper throttle valve (TV) cable adjustment is critical to a properly functioning transmission. It’s the beginning of Spring for most of the country and that means a lot of you are pulling the cover off the car and getting it ready to hit the road. We want to be sure your’re…
The “OBS” or C1500 (as many of us older guys still call them) Chevy and GMC trucks have had a bit of a renaissance over the past few years. We can still remember when they were new on dealer lots and we were thick into the Sport Truck days of the late 90’s and early…
Bowler Performance Transmissions Announces its new Night Stick short throw shifter for the Magnum F. Bowler Performance Transmissions is excited to announce the release of our new Night Stick short throw shifter for the Tremec Magnum F 6-speeds. The new shifter creates a 35% reduction in shift throw length for a crisp and quick…
The TREMEC T-56 Magnum, TKX, TKO, and T5 transmissions use a Ford based mechanical speedometer drive and require an adapter or a custom speedometer cable to drive a traditional speedometer. This mechanical adapter is the easiest and most economical solution to connect your existing GM 7/8″ threaded speedometer cable to the transmission. The one-piece design…
We are excited to announce the release of our new Carbon Edition Tremec Magnum 6-speed and TKX 5-speed upgrade packages. In the past we offered some various upgrades, but with the addition of our new in-house REM Isotropic finishing equipment we’ve been able to take these transmissions one step further. The Carbon Edition package is…
I feel like there comes a time for all of us, in this hobby, where we build the car we’ve always wanted, but once we’ve settled into it, we start pondering about the next thing we can change to give us a little more power, a little more speed, and a little more edge on…
We’re excited to announce the release of our new transmission cooler line manifold for the GM 6, 8, and 10 speed automatics. This new manifold is designed with a -6 AN size, angled fitting output to better align with the bellhousing of the transmission to keep the cooler lines tight up against the case and…
The Tremec TKX rollout is in full swing and even though we’re still waiting on some of the new models to arrive we’ve been busy working on new shifter options so that we can still offer you more direct fit options. Our newest design is this low profile side shifter for the C1,C2, & C3…
The car building hobby and industry has been continually embracing more electronic controls into use, and with the popularity of fuel injection and digital/electronic dashes there can be some confusion as to the best way to get the speedometer signal from the transmission to the ECM and then to the actual speedometer. We’ll try to…
It’s fairly often around here that we get a call from someone asking about the best way to handle a neutral safety switch install in their project, especially since many older cars and trucks were not equipped with them from the factory until it became a requirement in the early 1980’s. Each transmission handles this…
