View Poll Results: Would you?
Spend up to $600 on a man. trans conversion
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use the money for more power?
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Manual conversion or performance?
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Originally posted by BigVinnie
A 5 speed manual is performance, compared to a auto.....
A 5 speed manual is performance, compared to a auto.....
It depends on what you want to do with the car. If you like dragracing, or if you ever drive in traffic, the automatic is the way to go.
If you like "motorsports" that involve long, pointless tire-smoking exhibitions or sliding your car ***-backwards off cliffs, then the manual conversion is definitely superior.
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Originally posted by PNG
Please try again.
It depends on what you want to do with the car. If you like dragracing, or if you ever drive in traffic, the automatic is the way to go.
If you like "motorsports" that involve long, pointless tire-smoking exhibitions or sliding your car ***-backwards off cliffs, then the manual conversion is definitely superior.
Please try again.
It depends on what you want to do with the car. If you like dragracing, or if you ever drive in traffic, the automatic is the way to go.
If you like "motorsports" that involve long, pointless tire-smoking exhibitions or sliding your car ***-backwards off cliffs, then the manual conversion is definitely superior.
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i want a DD, i'm not driving it this winter. I want to garage it, and either do engine work and lower it, Or do the conversion and lower it. I'm trying to decide. Anyone know where they sell the whole conversion? I'm going to jack it up on jack stands all winter while i'm painting my rims and ****. But overall i just want a little more power, and a manual trans. Mabey some kyb gx2 and s-techs.
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I would do the manual swap.
More power is always great, but what is the point in an auto?
The manual literally puts the power at your fingertips.
You can controll all that power at your whim. At first it is a ***** driving around. But when you come up to a red-light, your first in line. You get a feeling shifting through the gears, so utterly different then just punching it and having an auto shift for you.
Just my 5-cents.
I get bored driving in an auto, feels like something is missing.
More power is always great, but what is the point in an auto?
The manual literally puts the power at your fingertips.
You can controll all that power at your whim. At first it is a ***** driving around. But when you come up to a red-light, your first in line. You get a feeling shifting through the gears, so utterly different then just punching it and having an auto shift for you.
Just my 5-cents.
I get bored driving in an auto, feels like something is missing.
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Originally posted by toycar
when i did my auto-manual swap i was able to accelerate faster than with auto. and you won't have any gay speed governer(auto ecu's didnt come with it) so you can go as fast as u want
when i did my auto-manual swap i was able to accelerate faster than with auto. and you won't have any gay speed governer(auto ecu's didnt come with it) so you can go as fast as u want
where did you get ur's from? How much did it cost? where can i get mine?What tranny's will fit on mine? 89-98?
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Originally posted by Atown 240
just out of coursity, do you have an auto?
just out of coursity, do you have an auto?
I just ran brackets this past weekend at NHRA Pomona. The car ran 14.48 in the quarter, and I made it to round three before taking myself out with a rookie mistake - I didn't catch the fact that they'd put my dial-in into the system wrong until I was halfway down-track and wondering why I was about to lose a race I should have won.
As a "hardcore drag monkey," I love it when other drivers are checking you out in the lanes - most of them (the ones who have never bracket raced before, generally speaking) laugh when they see two pedals, but the guys who are serious about it go out of their way to make sure they don't get paired with anybody running an automatic.