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Originally Posted by stephen_becker;1****56
George - I was not aware of these additional items and issues that you brought up today - Most of what you had issues with belong squarely with SAI under warranty - The transmission replacement puzzles me as that was a new 4 speed transmission and you spoke with the builder of the transmission and the issue with the slip out was caused by heat from SAI not installing proper heat shields (that they finally started putting on later production cars).
Nevertheless, I am on this with SAI & their legal in the AM and will get back with you promptly
SGB
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Stephen thanks for the $1100 reimbursement check, I appreciate that. I was never aware of the fact that you had submitted the additional invoices to Shelby International, Las Vegas it was my understanding from our correspondents, that you were going to handle that. However, if SAI has the invoices will just wait and see what they will do toward the warranty.
As far as the transmission and clutch, unable to shift after the car got hot problem, we never did figure out what caused the problem. At one point after we had ceramic plate coated the exhaust system, we thought that might take care of the issue but sure enough once the car heated up it would refuse to shift from fourth to third or to any gear then after it sat and cool off everything would work fine. At the end it got to a point where the transmission would not shift at all hot or cold.
The only thing left for us to do was to pull the transmission and clutch then tear into both. However, given the fact that the four-speed at 70 miles an hour was turning 3300 RPMs I decided since we were going to have to pull them; we might as well replace the transmission with a five speed and replace the clutch with a hydraulic clutch. Since then the car has performed very well without any additional shifting issues.
Let me know if you hear anything concerning reimbursement to me from SAI.
Thanks,
George