[Buzz]

I have a non - world class T5 behind a +/- 450 hp/tq 383 stroker in my Unique. I have been expecting it to fail from the day I bought the car (over 4 years now) so I have made no attempt to treat it gently. After years of merciless beatings and abuse, it still shifts as smoothly as ever and now with the recent addition of a Hurst Billet Plus shifter, I can bang my shifts like never before. When I'm in the mood to scare the civilians and stampede the local livestock, I occasionally launch hard enough to boil the tires through first and smoke them on both the second and third upshifts. The ability of the drivetrain to overwhelm the tires no doubt plays a role in preserving the box but it also endures lots of more conservative, but still hard, up and down shifting without a complaint. In fact I like it so much that when it finally implodes or I upgrade the engine - whichever comes first - I will replace it with another T5 from G-Force.