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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:00 pm
by ESSEXY-ZN
Ok took the car out for a long drive today. Testing it out. Goes smooooth xept for gear changes when the car is parked and i engage either reverse or drive thers a clunk dont kno what it could be. Any ideas? Mounting maybe? If so whereTF am i spose to get 1 lol? And she also shudders at the steering wheel alot under braking. She has a wrong offset rim on 1 side at the rear and allignment off. Could this be the cause?
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:15 pm
by djtreble
Don't waste money sorting out the auto box, change it for manual.
Also the shuddering could be wheel alignment but it's more than likely a warped brake disk if its under braking.
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:51 am
by ESSEXY-ZN
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:54 am
by ESSEXY-ZN
What is an average cost for a swop like that? Need a figure so to budget. Will chek out the allignment on friday. Tanx
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:10 am
by djtreble
Swap the g'box? Not entirely sure but I'm pretty certain you can bolt up a normal SR20DET manual gearbox to the engine, for the swap you will need:
- Manual gearbox
- Manual gearstick
- clutch and brake pedal
- Clutch Master and slave cylinder
- Clutch lines
I have heard that people have done the auto to manual swap on s14's and s13's without changing the main ECU, so it would probably be the same case with the S15
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:29 am
by NIZAN-R
- Manual gearbox sr20det from s13/14
- Manual gearstick
- clutch pedal s13 needs a spacer s14 strait fit brake pedal easy jus cut dow to size with grinder
- Clutch Master and slave cylinder can use s13/s14 use the same as clutch pedal
- Clutch lines
-s13/s14 sr20det flywheel and clutch
-s13/s14 sr20det flywheel bolts
-s13/s14 gearbox bolts
-gearbox crosmember and mounting
-drive shaft
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:39 am
by rat
NIZAN-R wrote:- Manual gearbox sr20det from s13/14
- Manual gearstick
- clutch pedal s13 needs a spacer s14 strait fit brake pedal easy jus cut dow to size with grinder
- Clutch Master and slave cylinder can use s13/s14 use the same as clutch pedal
- Clutch lines
-s13/s14 sr20det flywheel and clutch
-s13/s14 sr20det flywheel bolts
-s13/s14 gearbox bolts
-gearbox crosmember and mounting
-drive shaft
Sounds about right but wow what a list
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:39 am
by djtreble
Oops, seems I missed a few:
You also need:
- Spigot bush
- gearbox oil and clutch fluid
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:49 pm
by ESSEXY-ZN
Shit dt is alot of parts. Stil any idea what these parts will cost in total? Sori for the questions just need to kno what im gettin myself into
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:12 pm
by djtreble
I could probably get a full conversion set for about £4/500 here without the spigot bush and fluids
Not sure how much, or how regularly a manual conversion comes up for sale in SA. I'd imagine not a lot.
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:47 pm
by ESSEXY-ZN
+- 6000 in rands but then again this is s.a so say if i were to pik up the parts here maybe 8k lol anyway thats not a bad price if it should be straight fit or little fabrication however shouldnt there be something to remove in the engine as well nearby the crank?
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:23 pm
by djtreble
If you can get your car on a ramp then you won't need to remove the engine. Everything can be done in situ.
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:34 pm
by NIZAN-R
you need to remove the auto spigot bush from the crank
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:31 pm
by ESSEXY-ZN
Ok picking up slowly but url kno of any good guys in dbn who can sincerely do this for me. Cape n jhb too far for me and id like someone experienced not some high named vw tuner whos done 100s of auto to manuals but doesnt kno the 'anatomy' of the sx as im not lookin to hv the car b used as a trial n error thing... If url kno what i mean. Contact numbers of ppl who can do it would help cheers
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:50 am
by poizen
if gary cant help you then i can
