You'll see them when you get under the car) Shift linkage (both rods and the mount thing. Clutch (you'll need an alignment tool as well) Flywheel (be sure to get the bolts that hold the flywheel to the crank!!!!) Here's what you'll need for auto to manual swap: Could be a urban legend, I just never took the chance. Something about the output gear falling out of place otherwise. **I've always been told that when removing the CV axles, do it one at a time and stick a large socket or something in the output shaft hole before removing the other side. IMO, if you're going to go that route, gut the LX completely and strip everything from the GT. To swap a GT engine into the LX would require you swap a ton of the wiring harness, power steering pump and lines, AC compressor and lines, alternator, etc. Some more rare donor cars would be a Ford Escort LX-E or a Mercury Tracer LTS. The 1995-1997 Kia Sephia are also identical engine and transmissions but I'm not sure if shifter and pedal assembly would be the same. If you want to find a GT donor car, the Mazda Protege LX is identical mechanically. I've done an auto to manual swap but on an LX to an LX.ĭenisond is very knowledgeable but I could have sworn that the GT and LX bellhousings were different. We use them both - but use the 5-speed more when trabelling on roads with less traffic. We still have both the original 92LX with its auto trans, and the 94LX with its 5-speed trans. But I bought a 5-speed (needing work of course) rather than fiddle with doing a swap. Having goteen my first escort, with its automatic transmission (which I had to rebuild), I wanted to have a 5-speed as well. I only use the OverDrive when on open roads, as this eliminates a lot of 'hunting' between 3rd and 4th, which wears out the 3-4 clutch pack faster. The automatic trans has a switch on top of it, called the "neutral safety switch", which does 3 things: It keeps the starter from working if the shift lever is not in park or neutral it turns on the backup lights in reverse and it lets the trans control module know if you want to use all 4 gears, or to use the bottom 3 which is how I drive mine in the suburbs. This interlock can probably be bypassed without much trouble.Īnd the part of the console where the shifter sticks up is different on an automatic trans, versus what it looks like on a car with the manual transmission. It just requires that you push in on the key slightly, in order to get it turned to where you can pull the key out. The ignition switch for a car with the 5-speeed does not have this interlock. There is a difference between the ignition switch for an automatic trans, as it has the interlock for having the lever in park or neutral when you start the car. And you would need to change the 'socket' that the shifter rides in. The other hard to find parts needed for swapping in a 5-speed would include the two rods that run from the bottom of a 5-speed trans, back to the shift lever. I doubt the inspectors look for this stuff in the rural parts of VA where they dont have emissions testing. The car was old enough to be exempt from emissions testing, but the emissions equipment still needs to be there. So I had to call up the VA dept of environmental quality and get them to tell the inspector that my car (92LX) really did not come with EGR. The inspector was going by the hood, which showed the plumbing for an GER, since the 91LX did have EGR, but the 92/93 dont - outside of CA. I had a 92LX with no EGR, but due to a crunch, I had gotten a hood from a 91. It might have to do with whether they have emissions where you live. It simply unbolts.Īs to how much hassle it would be to change the PCM from one kind to the other, I cant imagine. On a car with an auto trans, there is a metal plate covering the hole for the clutch rod going through it. This also involves the brake master cylinder reservoir, since that is the source of fluid to the clutch master cylinder. The pedals just bolt to a bracket at the lower end of the steering column, and if putting in a manual trans, adding the clutch pedal and the clutch hydraulics would be required. By the same token, a car with the 5-speed transmission does not get info from the trans, other than whether your foot is holding the clutch pedal down or not. The car with an automatic transmission expects to get info for controlling the trans - and if that info is missing, I think the check engine line would come on. Not ever having done the swap, nor wanted to - I can only surmise.
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