auto-manual tranny swap...PROS AND CONS????
06-13-2006, 07:45 AM
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theres 3 really good threads all about the swap. I am ok with cars, and did the swap myself in my garage in 10 hrs off stuff from this site and mabey a few others. oh and l2aine answered some dumb questions i had. most of the interior peieces i reused fror the manual. only thing i had to take off was the little bracket that had the auto gears listed or w/e. but my trim does say i have shift lock still. i even reused my auto crossmember. just dont forget to put grease on teh spindle....or add a cpl hrs
theres 3 really good threads all about the swap. I am ok with cars, and did the swap myself in my garage in 10 hrs off stuff from this site and mabey a few others. oh and l2aine answered some dumb questions i had. most of the interior peieces i reused fror the manual. only thing i had to take off was the little bracket that had the auto gears listed or w/e. but my trim does say i have shift lock still. i even reused my auto crossmember. just dont forget to put grease on teh spindle....or add a cpl hrs
06-14-2006, 01:44 PM
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^ what is the parasitic loss of the auto v. the manual? Granted for a noob nuttin beats auto in a drag race, but if you really know how to drive, manuals are usually better for getting power to the ground. Honeslty the only pro of having a manual is stop-and-go traffic where a manual can be a pita, for any other thing I'd take a manual.
06-14-2006, 02:03 PM
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ok i read a bunch of places and i got pretty much the same from all of them, they say the auto loses about 25% and that manual loses 13% ( those are just averages, not the exact numbers of all the sites.)
So auto lose quite a bit more then sticks.
So auto lose quite a bit more then sticks.
06-14-2006, 02:07 PM
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Let's be realistic here. 95% of the time, our cars are being driven from point A to point B on the street. Yes, a manual will get slightly better gas mileage under certain circumstances, but on the freeway the lockup converter takes that advantage away, and if you're driving a stick aggressively in traffic, you're throwing away any mileage difference anyway.
I've never lost a race in my 240 because I missed a shift. I've never burned up a clutch at the track or blown a launch because I bogged off the line. I don't get home from work with a sore left leg from driving in stop-and-go traffic. I can answer my phone while accelerating without running out of hands to steer the car.
I don't autocross, drift, or roadrace. Why would I even want a stick shift? What possible advantage does it give me?
I've never lost a race in my 240 because I missed a shift. I've never burned up a clutch at the track or blown a launch because I bogged off the line. I don't get home from work with a sore left leg from driving in stop-and-go traffic. I can answer my phone while accelerating without running out of hands to steer the car.
I don't autocross, drift, or roadrace. Why would I even want a stick shift? What possible advantage does it give me?
06-14-2006, 02:15 PM
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hey you can drive an auto just as agressivley and throw away the milage that it already dosent have over the manual.
the advantage it would give you would be the joy of driving, I feel when you have a stick you get more into driveing, you become one with the car, lol. And, you shouldnt be on the phone while driving anyway lol J/k.
the advantage it would give you would be the joy of driving, I feel when you have a stick you get more into driveing, you become one with the car, lol. And, you shouldnt be on the phone while driving anyway lol J/k.
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