What mods would be required (other than trans cooler) to be bulett prof at mid to high 200's rwkw? what sort of money would you be looking at?

Here's something to look at guys,

Attached are 2 pics of a band out of a late 1980's model Mercedes benz Gearbox.

Check out this band. Its 185,00km old

20 years ago, Mercedes were clever enough to realize that the bands had to be strong enough to take whatever any of their models would throw at them, so they engineered the band to be fitted in every version of their gearbox from their little 4 cyl up to the 6.9 ltr V8 monster.

As you can see, The ends are far from the pressed crap our fords get. The thickness of the band is actually more than double the thickness of the ion band and the ends are forged on. Notice its substantially wider, but the inside lining has ventilation grooves to allow oil to pass under it for cooling.

Pic 2 Shows the amount of substrate left on the band, and the thickness of the strap on the band itself.

If only we have had something like this in the ION 4 speed, Im sure it would have prevented plenty of the troubles we are having with it now!