[STROSEC]

I'm looking to rebuild the transmission on my 85 Carrera. Has anyone heard anything negative about the rebuilt transmissions offered by Veretexauto?

[smdubovsky]

I'm currently trying to get them to send me a rebuilt tip transmission. They want the old one back first(?!??) and have given me the run around for 2mo (though I haven't been good at remembering to press the issue.) They didn't have any problem charging the CC $4k w/o shipping anything. IMO, 'Al' and the boys seem shady as hell. If I could find one somewhere else I'd buy it.

Bottom line: No way *I* would ever buy a 'rebuilt' 915 from them.

[Lupin..the..3rd]

Originally Posted by smdubovsky

I'm currently trying to get them to send me a rebuilt tip transmission. They want the old one back first(?!??)

How do you ship the old one back first?? Don't you need the crate and packaging from the new one in order to do that? And what are you supposed to do with the car in the mean time? What an absurd policy.

[Rick Lee]

If you guys are gonna bother with shipping and wait times, just send it to a reputable place. Check out californiamotorsports.net. I'm picking my 993 tranny up from them tomorrow and, if I weren't having some extra stuff done to it, the tab would be the same Vertex charges for their rebuild. But CMS is top notch. I got an hour-long tour of their shop and these guys are the Porsche tranny experts. I dropped my tranny off there less than a month ago and they were closed for a week during Xmas, so I'm happy with the TAT. If anyone wants to discuss offline, PM me.

[pjalexandre]

Which 986 tip do you have? It is an Audi/VW FWD trans turned around, at least that is the case for the 5 speed 986 gearbox. 99-02 Passat for example, bolt on, move the shifting mechanism over and flip the ring/pinion so you have 5 forward gears instead of 5 reverse. 3-500 any day of the week.

Originally Posted by smdubovsky

I'm currently trying to get them to send me a rebuilt tip transmission. They want the old one back first(?!??) and have given me the run around for 2mo (though I haven't been good at remembering to press the issue.) They didn't have any problem charging the CC $4k w/o shipping anything. IMO, 'Al' and the boys seem shady as hell. If I could find one somewhere else I'd buy it.

Bottom line: No way *I* would ever buy a 'rebuilt' 915 from them.

[BlackTalon]

Originally Posted by pjalexandre

Which 986 tip do you have? It is an Audi/VW FWD trans turned around, at least that is the case for the 5 speed 986 gearbox. 99-02 Passat for example, bolt on, move the shifting mechanism over and flip the ring/pinion so you have 5 forward gears instead of 5 reverse. 3-500 any day of the week.

Oh man, it would be soooo cool to have 5 reverse gears!

[Trak Ratt]

Originally Posted by BlackTalon

Oh man, it would be soooo cool to have 5 reverse gears!

Most think you are stuck in reverse when droving on the track... BANG, POW, Oh snap, 10 ring

[BlackTalon]

Originally Posted by Trak Ratt

Most think you are stuck in reverse when droving on the track... BANG, POW, Oh snap, 10 ring

Right -- now just imagine if I could do it even faster!

[smdubovsky]

Originally Posted by pjalexandre

Which 986 tip do you have? It is an Audi/VW FWD trans turned around, at least that is the case for the 5 speed 986 gearbox. 99-02 Passat for example, bolt on, move the shifting mechanism over and flip the ring/pinion so you have 5 forward gears instead of 5 reverse. 3-500 any day of the week.

All 986/996 use the ZF 5HP19. Also used by BMW 3/5, VW, and Audi by the zillions (in comparison). The automatic stack is the same but cases & R&P are all different. Can't flip a hypoid R&P anyway.

Vertex is giving me the line that the valve bodies are different between otherwise identical boxsters so they want to get my trans back first so they can rebuild my valve body into their already rebuilt trans. I have the BMW ZF manual for the umpteen different varieties and while there are suble differences in some of the other parts they only list one valve body. Vertex hasn't provided proof that porsche uses different bodies. I have a hard time believeing that a modern auto thats completely controlled by computer would use a different bodies (and the bmw docs seem to support that fact).

Yanking the guts out of an audi trans and swapping is a good idea but a ZF gasket/repair kit is something like $800. So by the time you factor in the slightly different parts, hassle of swapping, and the (high) risk of it not working right the first time you put it back in and having to do it all over again (for a 3rd time!), and buying a new torque converter... No thanks, I'll buy a remanufactured or used one. Im sure the rebuild guys are getting the donor rebuild parts from bmw/vw/audi trans. I don't have the time or desire to figure it out though.

[Trak Ratt]

Originally Posted by smdubovsky

blah, blah, blah...

Vertex is giving me the line that the valve bodies are different between otherwise identical boxsters so they want to get my trans back first so they can rebuild it cause they don't have another.
Blah, blah, blah... $800. Blah, blah, blah... I don't have the time or desire to figure it out though.

Fixed! Don't know what kind of job they do but their prices for 915s are ~what the parts would cost for a true reuild.