Anyone done it yet? Any tips on it?

 

heres a tip, sell your auto and buy a manual TC, its going to cost you a lot of $$ to do a conversion and will completely destroy the resale value of the car

 

my car is in the shop right now for that.

 

ummm that nots completley true, 1200 bucks for the swap including parts/labor

 

Yea that’s about right im paying 1k for labor and the parts I got from a flipped over 5spd tcat my shop. Ill be heading over to the shop later to take some pix of the trany.

 

really? 1200 auto to manual swap? including PARTS and LABOR? awesome deal..

mystik, gimme the details.. i wanna convert also. you're doing this at your dealer? or at a shop? if you're doing this at some shop, will dealers be willing to do it?



my friend paid 2200 for his auto to manual swap on a 1994 mazda 626.

 

318 but didnt you buy a turbo kit made for the auto?? why would u wanna swap now

 

hehe yeah I did but I want more power and im getting ready to put down like 350whp when all said and done. me and dezod are gonna be doing a special project

 

hey chris you back already...i got to ask you some questions about headers...

 

No way man, a tranny swap would cost over 3k for our cars if you wanted to add in parts. I was just lucky enough to have a parts car in my shop with the motor and tranny in fully working order.

Theres a lot more to a tranny swap than switching out the transmission, you goat swap out the ECU, you gota make a custom bracket for the clutch, swap the main engine and interior panel wiring harness, swap the gauge cluster and, shifter. Ill try my best to fill you guys in on this.

And yea Tong call my up.

 

i just called my dealer and they said they don't do tranny swaps. boo

mystik, which shop is doing your swap?

 

oh, sounds complicated. lol.

 

i would of thought it would have been alot more than 1-2k for this!

 

Right now it’s at the body shop that I work in. we subcontracted a qualified mechanic to do the swap. The dealer will never do a transmission swap because of warranty issues and your odometer will rest.

 

I wouldn't think that an Auto swapped to a 5 speed would ever drive like a true 5 speed; I might be wrong though. Good luck with the swap.

 

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too much work if you ask me!

 

You are in luck then... you would have probably paid over 5k and then HOPEFULLY gotten it done right the first time If you are doing anything outside of warranty, find yourself a good private shop that you know is trustworthy. No offense to all of the dealer people out there.. they arent all bad.. the shop in our family just gets a TON of business from the 5 or so shoddy dealership service departments.. or at least from the fed of customers of these places.. and the labor rates there are about 40% higher than most of the private shops in a lot of cases.

 

That's not bad. Only $1k per gear.

 

If all you guys want to go 5speed why did you get a Auto...you should have gotten a 5speed from the get-go.

 

I got the Auto...girlfriend's gettin the Manual...win/win situation for me!