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Re: New Passon Performance 5 Speed update
[Re: 1fastrunner]
#868299
02/15/13 01:06 AM
02/15/13 01:06 AM
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Sugarloaf, PA. USA
JamiePasson
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Yeah,
Its 12:05 AM and I'm STILL at the shop on Valentines Day... I've been here since 6:40 this morning. I am not crying by any means, but come on guys. I am not draggin my feet. BELIEVE ME! The bottom line is I don't want this: (ss700 thread on the question and answer forum) to happen to me. Not literally because I KNOW they fit, but nightmares for customers after the sale. I PERSONALLY installed one in each body style car. BUT, after this LONG road, the last thing I want is pissed off people calling and then trying to take care of problems that develop.
Toples, I can understand your thought process and agree to a certain extent about missing sales. Yeah, that keeps me up at night, but that is just part of the game. I have learned to deal with it. We are getting between 10 and 20 calls per day asking availability, so the interest is there. We have 228 preordered units so far as well. We are just about ready to start building. I am waiting on an interlock sample. As soon as I can prove that out, I will order the production run of those parts and start building.
I want to make this clear AGAIN. I never would have mentioned word one of this unit, but McLeod was supposedly ready to release a trans and because the market is so impulse driven, I had to say something. It still makes me angry that they forced my hand like that, but I was between a rock and a hard place. Oh well, water under the bridge at this point. We will keep plugging away.
Jamie
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Re: New Passon Performance 5 Speed update
[Re: JamiePasson]
#868300
02/15/13 01:17 AM
02/15/13 01:17 AM
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poplar bluff mo.
toplescuda
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That is great i hope you sell all you can build
id love to have one in our 71 non console charger
id love even more to have one behind my blown hemi
1970 barracuda convert. 1 of 59
1970 pro street A.A.R. clone (panther pink)
1971 charger
2015 hellcat challenger. Redline red
2014 quad cab 4x4 ram 8 speed hemi
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Re: New Passon Performance 5 Speed update
[Re: JamiePasson]
#868301
02/15/13 08:08 AM
02/15/13 08:08 AM
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Grand Haven, MI
patrick
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I want to make this clear AGAIN. I never would have mentioned word one of this unit, but McLeod was supposedly ready to release a trans and because the market is so impulse driven, I had to say something. It still makes me angry that they forced my hand like that, but I was between a rock and a hard place. Oh well, water under the bridge at this point. We will keep plugging away.
Jamie
that's right....did the Mcleod tranny ever come to fruition, or is it just vaporware? I haven't seen any mention of it since it was shown at SEMA...
1976 Spinnaker White Plymouth Duster, /6 A833OD
1986 Silver/Twilight Blue Chrysler 5th Ave HotRod **SOLD!***
2011 Toxic Orange Dodge Charger R/T
2017 Grand Cherokee Overland
2014 Jeep Cherokee Latitude (holy crap, my daughter is driving)
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Re: New Passon Performance 5 Speed update
[Re: patrick]
#868302
02/15/13 04:54 PM
02/15/13 04:54 PM
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NotRussia
2fast4yourBrain
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I want to make this clear AGAIN. I never would have mentioned word one of this unit, but McLeod was supposedly ready to release a trans and because the market is so impulse driven, I had to say something. It still makes me angry that they forced my hand like that, but I was between a rock and a hard place. Oh well, water under the bridge at this point. We will keep plugging away.
Jamie
that's right....did the Mcleod tranny ever come to fruition, or is it just vaporware? I haven't seen any mention of it since it was shown at SEMA...
In a way, I'm glad you did, otherwise people (who were in no rush to get a trans) would have bought Keisler/Tremec units instead of waiting for this new A-855.
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Re: New Passon Performance 5 Speed update
[Re: JamiePasson]
#868305
02/18/13 02:48 AM
02/18/13 02:48 AM
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Posts: 4,785
Utah and Alaska
astjp2
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Yeah,
Its 12:05 AM and I'm STILL at the shop on Valentines Day... I've been here since 6:40 this morning. I am not crying by any means, but come on guys. I am not draggin my feet. BELIEVE ME! The bottom line is I don't want this: (ss700 thread on the question and answer forum) to happen to me. Not literally because I KNOW they fit, but nightmares for customers after the sale. I PERSONALLY installed one in each body style car. BUT, after this LONG road, the last thing I want is pissed off people calling and then trying to take care of problems that develop.
Toples, I can understand your thought process and agree to a certain extent about missing sales. Yeah, that keeps me up at night, but that is just part of the game. I have learned to deal with it. We are getting between 10 and 20 calls per day asking availability, so the interest is there. We have 228 preordered units so far as well. We are just about ready to start building. I am waiting on an interlock sample. As soon as I can prove that out, I will order the production run of those parts and start building.
I want to make this clear AGAIN. I never would have mentioned word one of this unit, but McLeod was supposedly ready to release a trans and because the market is so impulse driven, I had to say something. It still makes me angry that they forced my hand like that, but I was between a rock and a hard place. Oh well, water under the bridge at this point. We will keep plugging away.
Jamie
Jamie, I am hoping for your sucess, some of the chatter is because of the need for some to be ubdated and without the occasional update rumors will abound. Just keep us informed and you wont have the spread of rumors. Tim
1941 Taylorcraft
1968 Charger
1994 Wrangler
1998 Wrangler
2008 Kia Rio
2017 Jetta
I didn't do 4 years and 9 months of Graduate School to be called Mister!
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Re: New Passon Performance 5 Speed update
[Re: astjp2]
#868306
02/18/13 02:31 PM
02/18/13 02:31 PM
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California
mickm
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Jamie, I am hoping for your sucess, some of the chatter is because of the need for some to be ubdated and without the occasional update rumors will abound. Just keep us informed and you wont have the spread of rumors. Tim
i agree. for good or bad, this thread is here, and that means the rumor mill is as well. pop in and give a one or two line update when you can, and that will keep everyone satisfied! 
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Re: New Passon Performance 5 Speed update
[Re: mickm]
#868307
02/18/13 04:22 PM
02/18/13 04:22 PM
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Virginia Beach, VA
Old School
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Virginia Beach, VA
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Jamie, I am hoping for your sucess, some of the chatter is because of the need for some to be ubdated and without the occasional update rumors will abound. Just keep us informed and you wont have the spread of rumors. Tim
i agree. for good or bad, this thread is here, and that means the rumor mill is as well. pop in and give a one or two line update when you can, and that will keep everyone satisfied!
agreed..
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70 CUDA CONVERT 500" 5SP (SUBLIME)
70 CUDA CONVERT 500" 5SP (PLUMCRAZY):TOO MUCH HORSEPOWER, IS ALMOST ENOUGH!
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Re: New Passon Performance 5 Speed update
[Re: LAR_414]
#868318
02/27/13 03:33 PM
02/27/13 03:33 PM
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Sugarloaf, PA. USA
JamiePasson
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Larry, Thank you. This was with the torqueflight in it. Like I said, once I put the stick back in it (5 speed testing was my excuse)  we had to rework the rear suspension and straighten the frame which I bent... Long story, but it was 11:00 pm when we left the track. I got home and just backed the truck and trailer in the shop and went up the house to bed. I came down the next morning and walked past the car and said to myself, "boy the one front strap really loosened up on the way home last night." The one front side of the car was like 4 inches higher than the other. So I loosened the straps later that morning and the car didn't come back up. So, I started to do some measuring. The passenger side rear frame rail was bent up almost 2". So, I got that straightened, put some real frame ties in and added a halo bar and front bars to the front frame rails at Herb McCandless's last Summer. There is nothing quite like working with a Legendary Drag Racer and listening to how they used to use tubing for the roll bars in the Sox and Martin cars that was so thin walled to save weight, you could almost squeeze it. Herb and his wife Marie are just WONDERFUL people! Herb's good friend Roger is always there help out too. 2 LOOOOONNNNGGGG days later, everything was good and the car is way more solid now. That was done end of year last year. We'll see how it leave this summer. Hopefully nice again. God it was fun to  on the track again.
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