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Originally Posted by Scarebird
Evidently you also ignore the experience of some posters on this thread and others because you know better...
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Evidently you ignored my complete comment.
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Originally Posted by Chief of the 60's
200's are lightweight boat anchors. The only people that think they work are GN people and the people that are stuck with their mistake.
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Most transmission shops won't even touch a 200 because they do not want their name affiliated with a product destine to fail. Performance shops will take your money, a lot of it, and build a 200 for around $3000.00 that may hold up fairly well. A $900.00 700 will hold up better and any good shop has no problem putting their name on it. You want better, you do a 4L80.
If GM thought the 200 was any good they would have designed a case to bolt it into a Corvette. However, GM was plagued with warranty claims due to poor metallurgy causing failure after failure that GM killed it off and cut their losses after a few short years.
To say a 200 is a good transmission is to say the Cadillac Northstar or HT 4100 is a good engine.
There is a good reason why GM puts that little blue button on the rear view mirror. It is so you can call a tow truck.