my transmission swap

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Keyan

Discussion Starter · Mar 14, 2007

its in..

i still have 3 things left to do.

the steering rack needs to get bolted in and to the steering column.

And I bolted up the starter and tried to start the car. sounded horrible. I come to find out the m/t and a/t starters are different? Looks like I'm going to spend 125 dollars of money I don't have to get a m/t one because I never pulled it off the junk car.

I also have to work out the wiring for the starter circuit. I jumped 2 wires that I thought i needed to jump (power to the line that senses if the car is in P or N) and when the key was in the on position the starter was going. So I need to tap into a "power when crank" wire (somewhere???) in the engine bay and then I'll be good to go with that..

I worked on it for 2 hours last night on my lift, and today I started bright and early at 745, worked straight until a 15 minute lunch brake at 130, and then worked straight until 830pm. I've had a long day and it's not even done yet and will probably end up costing me 125 bucks for a M/T starter

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Cypher

· #24 · Mar 15, 2007

i'll take that last part as a challenge! reece when you get the torque converter we're going to try and prove keyan wrong! hahaha

good job dude. i've seen several xds with bad auto trans around and i had thought about getting them just to swap to manuals because it wouldn't be that hard. i can't believe you didn't even think the starters would be different... hold on there was something else i wanted to say but i'm sure i'll think of it later

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Cypher

· #28 · Mar 15, 2007

i thought thats how it was. now keyan has to learn to drive a stick proficently

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Cypher

· #31 · Mar 16, 2007

keyan had a v6 tib?

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Cypher

· #48 · Mar 17, 2007

what'd you know... keyan can do something right :tongue:

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Cypher

· #51 · Mar 17, 2007

he got the orginal donor car for pretty cheap so it wasn't that much at all.

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Cypher

· #89 · Aug 29, 2008

Are you boosted or something? How are you beating up your trannys that bad?

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Cypher

· #91 · Aug 29, 2008

Sounds like a code 18. I have 138k on my trans and its seen its share of abuse. Track runs, teenage driving, dyno, and its still going strong. I am convinced that one day I'm going to blow it up but so far its holding fine.

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Cypher

· #95 · Aug 30, 2008

This is not a thread to discuss your reckless pursuit to see how fast the car will go, this thread is for swapping from automatic to manual. Please keep it to that.

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