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Old May 10, 2007 | 10:27 AM
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I was wondering how much would it cost me to purchase a 6speed tranny setup to do a conversion in my 04 coupe. And is it costly to have the work done?
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I was wondering how much would it cost me to purchase a 6speed tranny setup to do a conversion in my 04 coupe. And is it costly to have the work done?
You can find all the parts on the forum for around $1500 for an M6.

Give Cartek or RPM a call for a price quote, they have done this type of swap many times.
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I am not sure exactly what parts I need to buy besides the tranny and clutch master cylinder. Can anyone let me know what else I would need
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I am not sure exactly what parts I need to buy besides the tranny and clutch master cylinder. Can anyone let me know what else I would need
Off the top of my head:

Bell Housing
Torque Tube
Tranny
Shifter
Pedals
Transmission Wiring haness for an 04.
master cylinder
clutch
throw out bearing
I believe you will need to also purchase some switches.
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Old May 10, 2007 | 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by JSTAN
Off the top of my head:

Bell Housing
Torque Tube
Tranny
Shifter
Pedals
Transmission Wiring haness for an 04.
master cylinder
clutch
throw out bearing
I believe you will need to also purchase some switches.
^^ You will also probably want to change your differential gear to a 3.42 from whatever you currently have with your A4 (most likely 2.73 or 3.15)

It will probably cost about $1500 or so to do swap. Your car needs to be reprgrammed from an automatic to a manual.

My brother is doing this to his car. Has all the parts already.
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Old May 10, 2007 | 03:49 PM
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Most people say that the best way to do this is to find someone who wants to go from a standard to an automatic and you can just switch parts. Throw a post out on the FI section, a lot of those guys are swithcing to autos for reliability reasons.
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