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Old Nov 14, 2006 | 06:41 PM
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say hello to my little freind ....a4 auto...no more clutch carnage no more broken tranny shafts... did i say i could have done this 4 clutches ago... ...the track has retired me to earily for the last time !!!! starting my auto buld up in dec will have it converted by jan 07
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I hope you are using a RPM trans or equal
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Old Nov 14, 2006 | 10:48 PM
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yes I'm using . AUTOWORX /Marty level 10 with nitrous converter
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 07:43 AM
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yes I'm using . AUTOWORX /Marty level 10 with nitrous converter
I'm doing the same combo buddy! Looking forward to changing my avatar to 9's next season!
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 07:54 AM
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Congrats. I knew eventually you'd see the light.
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 08:13 AM
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I'm doing the same combo buddy! Looking forward to changing my avatar to 9's next season!
I'll be there on the starting line with my camera when you and Roy are doing this next year... It will be interesting to see who is the 1st to make it into the 1.3x sixty foot zone... Don is knocking on the door with a 1.41 already!
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Congrats. I knew eventually you'd see the light.
mark do you how hard it is to say you were r---t ..see i didn't say it
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I'm doing the same combo buddy! Looking forward to changing my avatar to 9's next season!
I'm sure you'll do fine ..champ
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Originally Posted by roythomas
say hello to my little freind ....a4 auto...no more clutch carnage no more broken tranny shafts... did i say i could have done this 4 clutches ago... ...the track has retired me to earily for the last time !!!! starting my auto buld up in dec will have it converted by jan 07

There is a little electrical work involved in the conversion. I have seen some of the electrical work from your tuner/garage, i hope they do a better job then what i have seen. What is the labour gonna run ya?
i did mine last year and would never go back to a 6 speed.
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Mike who did your conversion?
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Mike who did your conversion?
Mikey did it himself if I remember correctly. All us Ottawa guys do our own installs We got no money left

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There is a little electrical work involved in the conversion. I have seen some of the electrical work from your tuner/garage, i hope they do a better job then what i have seen. What is the labour gonna run ya?
i did mine last year and would never go back to a 6 speed.
what work are you refuring too !!! what person worked on the vette .. or do you know
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Mike who did your conversion?
Hey Arun, i did the conversion with a buddy. I gathered all the parts up, did my homework and then tackled the job with my buddy. We had to make a wire harness because the years were not the same. 1997-1998 are the same harnesses and 1999-2004 are the same. I had to match the 2 harnesses together. Apperently some ppl don't think its a big deal. There is no way u can know my car was a 6 speed if i didn't tell someone. No extra holes. U will need to jump a few wires in the PCM harness over to new spots. I used factory PCM pins that were about $4 each. Make sure to get the gasket and coupler that joins the tranny and diff together. The 6 speed has it built onto the tranny, the automatic needs to have the coupler and gasket added on. Just tap it on witha rubber mallet. Swap out the tranny harness that runs above the torque tube. Just bypass the clutch switch or the car won't start. U will need a shifter cable bracket. This needs to be welded to the tunnel. Auto shifter fits into the 6 speed console. If u don't get a auto rad just use external cooler it work better anyway. Get the pcm reflashed for the A4 tranny.
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what work are you refuring too !!! what person worked on the vette .. or do you know

My car was down at there old shop before i owned it. There were wires soldered and left bare. Blobs of solder applied like playto. I had to redo the line lock wires and any other electrical stuff they did. My cousin owns the former ARE C5 and the wiring was a mess in that as well. Fuel pressure module was placed under the washer bottle and when the fluid would leak out it would short the module and gauge wouldn't work. Bad location boys. Then the MAF wires were stripped for some reason and all taped together bare. This kept blowing fuses and would leave us stuck everytime. Wires looked like they were stripped to probe them but never covered back up just all taped together and shorting out. Lets just say from what i have seen, electical work is not their talents. Fogger fuel pump wires shorting causing the pump to keep running and eventually burn out. The list does go on but i don't wanna come accross as a hater.
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Originally Posted by roythomas
what work are you refuring too !!! what person worked on the vette .. or do you know

Alot of people call themselves the best but from what i have seen i would call them average at best. Let me know what it will cost u maybe we can do it for you the right way here in Ottawa. No butcher work here.
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Originally Posted by mitymikec
Alot of people call themselves the best but from what i have seen i would call them average at best. Let me know what it will cost u maybe we can do it for you the right way here in Ottawa. No butcher work here.
How fast have you gone in an IRS C5?
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How fast have you gone in an IRS C5?

I have gone 10.7@ 131mph. The car has a bone stock LS6 motor out of a 2003 Z06. 150 shot dry homemade kit of nitrous. Valve covers have never been off the car. Only mods are a 3200 stall, nitrous and KN air filter. Stock LS1 exhaust manifolds, injectors, fuelpump, gears, intake,MAF and the list goes on. The car has a stock A4 tune from a mail order.
Car 60 ft 1.50. It is driven alomost 600km every weekend to and from the track. It runs tens on the same wheels i drive those 600kms..I have recently put headers on the car but haven't been to the track with them on but it felt great on the street..
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Originally Posted by mitymikec
I have gone 10.7@ 131mph. The car has a bone stock LS6 motor out of a 2003 Z06. 150 shot dry homemade kit of nitrous. Valve covers have never been off the car. Only mods are a 3200 stall, nitrous and KN air filter. Stock LS1 exhaust manifolds, injectors, fuelpump, gears, intake,MAF and the list goes on. The car has a stock A4 tune from a mail order.
Car 60 ft 1.50. It is driven alomost 600km every weekend to and from the track. It runs tens on the same wheels i drive those 600kms..I have recently put headers on the car but haven't been to the track with them on but it felt great on the street..
You should come down to Toronto and see how you stack up against some of the cars put out by the shop you are putting down
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Old Nov 17, 2006 | 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by mitymikec
My car was down at there old shop before i owned it. There were wires soldered and left bare. Blobs of solder applied like playto. I had to redo the line lock wires and any other electrical stuff they did. My cousin owns the former ARE C5 and the wiring was a mess in that as well. Fuel pressure module was placed under the washer bottle and when the fluid would leak out it would short the module and gauge wouldn't work. Bad location boys. Then the MAF wires were stripped for some reason and all taped together bare. This kept blowing fuses and would leave us stuck everytime. Wires looked like they were stripped to probe them but never covered back up just all taped together and shorting out. Lets just say from what i have seen, electical work is not their talents. Fogger fuel pump wires shorting causing the pump to keep running and eventually burn out. The list does go on but i don't wanna come accross as a hater.
i for one have had bad hair day's.. but i have done by my choice 4 differnt combo's with no discount for nice guy..no isues..sorry for the burden you have had...but i think you will find as thing.s do get better with time..AUTOWORX ROCK'S while most talk
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how much does this conversion cost more or less parts & labor ? sounds interesting .
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