Okay...
I completed my conversion at 2AM this morning.
I am running the auto computer on my car still. (Runs fine, but definetely no grunt over 4500RPM at all!)
I needed: Manual tail shaft (Wagon and sedan shafts ARE DIFFERENT!) gearbox, bell housing, flywheel, pressure plate, clutch, clutch cable, manual pedal box, speed sensor + plug, reverse light plug. And a manual starter motor A **** load of bolts, manual pedal box, console.
Basically, drop the whole exhaust (Bar the manifolds)
Pull the tail shaft out.
Undo all electrics+vacuum lines+coolant lines on the box.
Undo the gear linkage (One bolt)
Undo the 6 bolts holding on the gearbox.
Slide gearbox back slightly.
Undo torque convertor cover.
Undo torque convertor from auto flywheel
Pull gearbox and TC off all together.
Undo the bolts holding on flywheel.
Remove auto starter.
Put on manual start
Put on manual flywheel.
Put on clutch + pressure plate.
Remove all interior console.
Drill out the 8 rivets holding in the "brass/copper" centre. (Auto shifter is "stuck" to it)
Put on the piece that goes on the bottom of the sump for the manual box.
Put gearbox up and onto flywheel. (The shifter has to be unbolted, this is only 4 bolts and piss easy)
Do up cross member + the 6 bolts holding gearbox to engine.
Put on new tail shaft.
Put exhaust back on (I can't say this enough, REPLACE ALL GASKETS WHERE A "BREAK" WAS MADE!!!)
Climb inside.
Put on gear shifter again.
Put "gold/brass" cover on and rivet it in.
Put centre console back over the top.
Plug in wires into the auto nuetral start switch, and set it into the "neutral" or "park" position.
Plug in handbrake light.
Put top console lid back on.
Rewire speedo via this method: (Copied from another thread on here)
Ok here is how your wire it up. the 3 wires on the speed sensor are
white/blue wire up to earth
purple/white extend the wire up to behind your glovebox where ontop of the ecu there is a white plug, joint this wire into the purple/white going to the speedo, if you cut and join it on the wrong side it wont work. the last wire on the speed sensor i think from memory is pink/blue this gets wired up to 12 accessory power.
Back to me:
Then you will have to fudge around and find the reverse lights.
Tools needed:
Rags - Lots of them.
Full GOOD socket set (With a LARGE range of sizes)
Good spanner set with a LARGE range of pieces.
Screw driver set.
Hammer may be handy.
Drill for the rivet removal
Rivet gun + rivets
Solder + soldering iron + electrical tape.
Spare wire.
Need more info?
Just holler!
(This conversion was for a VR, I put in a VP S2 T5 gearbox, with a heavy duty clutch, all up it cost me $1343, as I did all of the work myself *including new clutch, pressure plate, spiggot bush, and machining the flywheel*)
