{"id":16038,"date":"2015-06-19T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=16038"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:12:37","slug":"chevy-max-performance-kit-by-performance-automatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/chevy-max-performance-kit-by-performance-automatic\/","title":{"rendered":"[Video] Chevy Max Performance Kit by Performance Automatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-hAZqz4J0w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Performance Automatic now has a Smart Pack transmission kit that provides users with all of the odds and ends they need to finish a project. \u00a0They offer personalized customer service and great warranties, along with a generally great product.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t watch the video? Read the transcription below:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Performance Automatic started in 1983 as a general transmission repair shop, lifts, mini vans, Ford Taurus\u2019, and the owner was a real big Ford fan. So he was building some real big C4 race transmissions for a lot of the local guys and then it started to develop, he started building some of his own products, valve bodies and things like that, for these Ford racing transmissions. I came on board in 1993, just as the 5-0, Ford Mustang 5-0 market was really starting to explode so the street performance and the race performance really started to grow. So we found our niche in the Ford racing transmissions and then we got so busy with that we kind of started phasing out the mom and dad minivan market and started focusing just on manufacturing, after market, street performance transmissions for the Mustang.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As that market hit its high we were busy and we weren\u2019t really doing anymore GM, but as the racing market and the economy started to change a little bit, more guys were going into the street rod stuff. So we started and developed Ford street smart packages, which are complete transmissions, torque converter packages, from the start and then as they gained popularity, the Chevy guys say, \u201cHey. Nobody&#8217;s selling us complete kits, why don\u2019t you do some Chevy Kits?\u201d\u00a0So we started doing some Chevy kits and we have some Chrysler kits and then we went from doing a lot of three speed transmissions into the over drives and then from over drives into the electronic over drives, and now, we are all the way into doing six speed transmissions. We get a lot of feedback from the racers, but more than the racer only, the enthusiast. And now they want electronic five speed and six speed transmissions that have lock up just like they get their normal everyday driver that\u2019s what they want to get into their baby, their performance car, their muscle car. The smart pack, everyone has a choice, of the type of transmission or the people they want to buy their product from.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our products complement the other manufacturer\u2019s product providing the end user with everything they need to complete the project. If they don\u2019t supply it to them, they need the product and we have a good enough reputation in the business that even if they don\u2019t have our transmission, they know we are going to provide them with the finishing kit to finish their project easily and correctly. It doesn\u2019t matter if he buys a transmission from Performance Automatic, if he gets a used transmission out of a junkyard, he buys a transmission from a local shop, gets one from his buddy.\u00a0It doesn\u2019t matter where that transmission came from, who built it or whatever. He\u2019s got it, his transmission and converter, our smart pack will supply him the dip stick, the mounting hardware, the nuts, all of the pieces he doesn\u2019t have are going to be in one box ready to go. A lot of times people buy these transmissions and they are thinking it\u2019s going to go right back in the vehicle. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One of the biggest misconceptions is that they buy a transmission, \u00a0the transmission is complete. But if it needs a tv cable or an engine controller, all those pieces aren\u2019t included. They are assuming that you already have a dip stick\u00a0to put it in, while we are assuming all you have is the transmission and torque converter and you need the nuts, you need the bolts, you don\u2019t have fluid, you don\u2019t have a dipstick or controller or tv cable or you know any of these other pieces that you need so if you need them we sell them all to you in one package deal. I think the reason that people are drawn towards Performance Automatic is one, our customer service and our information\u00a0provides\u00a0a lot to customers that is common knowledge but we give them all the information so they have all the facts. We know the product; we have people that are racers answering the phone, guys with street rods. We go to the Goodguys Events and the NSRA events and the races.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Warranty is very important to us so all of our warranties are better than everybody else\u2019s. Where other companies offer 30, 60, 90 day warranties we offer 1 year, 2 year and lifetime warranties on a lot of our components, so our warranties stand out. When we get these customers, for example they buy a lifetime warranty street smart package, they are our customer forever, they\u2019ve made and investment in our product and we are going to keep them around. So when they start another project, they have a friend that\u2019s building a car, they come to us because they know that they are only going to have to spend their money one time and we are going to give them a great product, everything they need and they are only going to have to buy it one time. When you have customers, and I\u2019ve had customers that I\u2019ve known for the whole 21 years I\u2019ve been at the company, I\u2019ve sold them three speed race car transmissions, they converted their race car to a speed car so I sold them a replacement transmission that came in that car originally, they started being more involved so now they are driving the car on the highway, so now I sold them an overdrive transmission, then they\u2019ve stepped up and they\u2019ve added fuel injection and a new create engine to their combination so now they want an electronic transmission so I\u2019ve kept the customer and gone through all the stages with them, which makes it real good and they\u00a0sold their transmission to their buddy who is just a level below them with their project and its funny because I\u2019ll look on the internet for used car parts and look up transmissions and Performance Automatic transmission does have a definite residual value on there which is nice to see because you know people are buying them, they know that even though the lifetime warranty only went to the original owner, if it was a good enough product to offer a lifetime warranty, that was the best available at the time the product was built so it is worth something to buy. Because we were banking on building a product that wasn\u2019t going to break. Someone was fortunate enough to find one used at a value so they are confident that it\u2019s not going to break for them. \u00a0Automatic vs. manual, when you look at the demographic of the customer and the technology behind the new electronic transmissions you can still have the options, I mean all of our electronic transmissions with our controllers have the options of adding a paddle shift so they can get that manual feel. And the transmissions, since they are computer operated and you have control and you can set it they are very fast, sometimes faster than someone can shift a transmission. Going back also, a lot of our customers are street rodders, who are very performance oriented; some of those guys aren\u2019t getting any younger so pushing a clutch pedal in and out is and extra chore for them, but going with the modern day 4, 5, and 6 speed transmissions, still gives them that feel of shifting gears. So a lot of them are going towards automatic transmissions because\u00a0it\u2019s faster, it takes the error out of trying to shift a transmission, it\u2019s easier on the body, its more consistent, you can\u2019t make any mistakes and then since a lot of these cars are dual purpose, it makes it easier for them to drive it around when they are doing the cars and coffee on Sunday morning. They want to hold their cup of coffee in their hand, well you can\u2019t hold your cup of coffee in your hand and shift at the same time, but you can hold your cup of coffee in your hand and shift into drive. In my opinion, and in my customers&#8217;, they tell me an automatic with the setup for performance with all the new modern day technology that goes behind it is a lot more versatile than a manual transmission. We have a great website, performanceautomatic.com. If you call our shop we have people that pick up, a computer doesn\u2019t pick up the phone, people pick up the phone and then we can refer you to one of our great dealers and you can get our products anytime they want, any place they want, all over the world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Performace Automatic releases their Smart Packs transmission kits.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":16039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1064,3034],"tags":[1760,39,3124,2830,2940,1593],"class_list":["post-16038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-news-releases","category-videos","tag-automatic-transmission","tag-chevrolet","tag-chevy-max-performance-kit","tag-performance-automatic","tag-performance-kits","tag-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/feat.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-4aG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16038"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16906,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions\/16906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}