Ive got 6K pretty hard miles on mine. Shifts like brand new. Probably have 50-60 power shifts with 0 issues,
The trans was designed and rated for a heavy gross weight vehicle by the trans maker and therefore is ideal to be suited in a truck chassis. Ford decided to install it in the mustang due to how stout it is. The trans specs are 396lb ft of torque with a gross weight of just over 9300lbs. The trans maker doesn't tell the vehicle manufacture what they can install it in, just what they would expect it to be in from their trans rating/test.
This trans is far from cheap, just cause its China made people assume the worst. The trans in our weight cars will be able to handle 700+ ft lbs.
Ive got 6K pretty hard miles on mine. Shifts like brand new. Probably have 50-60 power shifts with 0 issues,
i dont get the MT82 hate. i have ZERO problems with mine and i can shift the hell out of it. and thats with the stock shifter bracket.
i think the problem comes with guys that are used to tremecs. they are a different trans, more stout and ok with being bullied into gear. getrags need to be finessed. if you change your shifting style i think you will find out that that MT82 is just fine.
it took me a few weeks to adapt to it but now i have no miss shifts, no lock outs, no grinding nothing. its a little notchy but thats par for the muscle car course imho. with my 3650 i could hammered out shifts and it never missed a beat. if i try to drive my 13 like i did my 07 the MT82 isnt happy. but if i glide it into gear(and you can still do this very fast) its perfectly fine.
you just need to listen to the trans instead of forcing it. this tranny doesn't need much pressure to get into gear, let the shifter do its work. dont man handle it.
mine is awesome too. way better than the 3650 or t5
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This trans is far from cheap, just cause its China made people assume the worst. The trans in our weight cars will be able to handle 700+ ft lbs.
The MT-82 is the reason I traded my Boss in on a Cadillac and will never own a Ford again.
I worked for a leading equipment manufacturer in the oil & gas industry. We always had HELL with Chinese manufacturers - Tolerancing, quality control, and maintaining material specs (especially metals) were pretty much alien to them. There is a reason parts made in China are cheaper, and it's not just because of the labor rates.
^ this guy lol
^ this guy lol
i'm not sure exactly what parts they use their zeiss to measure, but.
a cmm is a coordinate measuring machine, basically it is a computer controlled machine that runs a program to check the dimensions of a certain part. these machines are super accurate and can calculate a sorts of theoretical points and positions. a part it would take man hours or even days to check this machine can do in mins. I know companies use them for checking valve bodies for automatics, just not sure where else these use them at. these cmm's are very sensitive, they need to be in a "clean room" and use air bearings to glide across their granite base (which is typically 12" thick or more). zeiss is suppose to tear them down and check everything, clean everything, and then recalibrate everything every so many hours, according to the guy doing one of ours at work ford has told them not to come do these pms any more.
that seems alright, but here is what happened where i work. people use to lean on the machine arm when it was not in use. so one day i remember talking with some coworkers about how we have been slowly moving our work offsets (cnc mills) more and more the same direction to continue to run good parts and how odd it was. after a few days of this we had quality bring a shit load of parts back saying we need to recheck them because they are no good. so we recheck them all and they are good. send them back through and they got rejected again. so we checked them on another zeiss out on the floor and sure enough they were not good parts. zeiss came in and discovered that the mast had been tweaked a few thousandths and it was enough to throw everything off. now if we were running typical "push go" machines and quality was the only one checking the parts then these parts would have went to our customers and they would have never know the difference until their plasma chambers started screwing up
like i said i'm not sure where ford uses these but for them to cancel the schedules pm's is a sign that they are taking risks to keep cost down. heres a picture of a zeiss cmm checking a valve body
i dont get the MT82 hate. i have ZERO problems with mine and i can shift the hell out of it. and thats with the stock shifter bracket.
i think the problem comes with guys that are used to tremecs. they are a different trans, more stout and ok with being bullied into gear. getrags need to be finessed. if you change your shifting style i think you will find out that that MT82 is just fine.
it took me a few weeks to adapt to it but now i have no miss shifts, no lock outs, no grinding nothing. its a little notchy but thats par for the muscle car course imho. with my 3650 i could hammered out shifts and it never missed a beat. if i try to drive my 13 like i did my 07 the MT82 isnt happy. but if i glide it into gear(and you can still do this very fast) its perfectly fine.
you just need to listen to the trans instead of forcing it. this tranny doesn't need much pressure to get into gear, let the shifter do its work. dont man handle it.