Auto to manual conversion
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Instructor
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Auto to manual conversion
So in a hypothetical sense what would be need to do a COMPLETE conversion. I was talking with a friend about this earlier as we own an automatic that we are looking to do something with. More of a just so we can say we did it kind of thing.
Racer
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From: Azusa Ca
Love to do the same thing. I hope someone will chime in with some details instead of the common "just get a manual car answer"
Burning Brakes
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Besides the obvious, it's going to require a fair amount of fabrication, you'll have to mount a clutch pedal, install the hydraulic lines, master cylinder, change the transmission out. I'd imagine even if you could do all the work yourself, you'd never recoup the investment
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I don’t care about the investment so to speak as this is more of a something to do project. Not a change and resell deal. What’s stopping me is trying to find out if I need to change body harnesses and/or computers.
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In the process of getting the parts together now. You pretty much need everything from the motor back. I wont say its bolt on necessarily but theirs no major difference in the body that would prevent any need to fabricate anything, you just basically need everything out of the manual car. Pedals bolt up, all that stuff will transfer over. The harness needs some modification I know but I can't say exactly what as I havent gotten that far yet. Idealy the easiest way would be to find a wrecked manual car on copart and just grab everything you need out of it. Tune will need to be corrected as well. Its doable just alot of work. The hole for the shifter is already there, the auto shifter mechanism sets in it. Maybe someone here can verify but I think the rear subframes are the same between manual and auto, i could be wrong on that though. I'm doing the piece it together as I find the parts deal so not in a rush.
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In the process of getting the parts together now. You pretty much need everything from the motor back. I wont say its bolt on necessarily but theirs no major difference in the body that would prevent any need to fabricate anything, you just basically need everything out of the manual car. Pedals bolt up, all that stuff will transfer over. The harness needs some modification I know but I can't say exactly what as I havent gotten that far yet. Idealy the easiest way would be to find a wrecked manual car on copart and just grab everything you need out of it. Tune will need to be corrected as well. Its doable just alot of work. The hole for the shifter is already there, the auto shifter mechanism sets in it. Maybe someone here can verify but I think the rear subframes are the same between manual and auto, i could be wrong on that though. I'm doing the piece it together as I find the parts deal so not in a rush.
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i unfortunately have not, I have a lot of the stuff setting here but my main hold up has been finding a diff. I just havent been too pressed to do it but eventually it’ll happen.