Manual swap update
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Manual swap update
Hey guys! just wanted to update everyone on my manual swap progress. car has been done for over a week now and it’s great, honestly everything went pretty easy and there wasn’t much that gave me trouble. if anyone has ANY questions on this swap please do not hesitate to ask. and to all the naysayers, just because you can’t do the swap doesn’t mean others can’t either 
. Worst part was installing the clutch pedal but if you just cut up the W shaped bracket and bolt it each bolt in individually it’s pretty simple. definitely worth the money and still came out to less than a built automatic lol
. Worst part was installing the clutch pedal but if you just cut up the W shaped bracket and bolt it each bolt in individually it’s pretty simple. definitely worth the money and still came out to less than a built automatic lol
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Congrats. I hope you have fully documented your process and can share it with the other members.
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That's great news. Would've been nice to have pictures or videos to document your endeavor, but I get it's a pain in the *** to do all that while working on the car.
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I do have some videos of mainly the removal process, they’re extremely long though so i’ll have to cut them down. i can also take pictures of the actual modifications i had to make to the car. it’s pretty straight forward. when i get the chance ill try and make a comprehensive guide to the swap
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I do have some videos of mainly the removal process, they’re extremely long though so i’ll have to cut them down. i can also take pictures of the actual modifications i had to make to the car. it’s pretty straight forward. when i get the chance ill try and make a comprehensive guide to the swap
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I have documentation but it’s taking some time to crop the pictures out of the videos because each one is nearly an hour long, i didn’t record any installation mainly because it’s pretty impossible to get my phone in the tight spaces you have to work in and honestly once i get going on working on stuff i don’t really stop. i will upload some cut down clips soon though!
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Swapping out the trans and such should be pretty straight forward. I would be interested in how/what you had to do to modify the various modules (ECM,BCM etc.) to work correctly? That's seems to be the hardest part to me. Nice job BTW!