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[thatguytommy]

well here it gose. i have found an 84 civic it has an bad H.G i dont want the motor i want the body it is in great shape way better then mine. plus the guy that lives across the street from my girls mom house backed into my driver sider door and pushed it in a good way. so i will get some money and i found this civic and its an auto. how hard is it to swap my 5 speed in it? do i just lose the auto and the linkage and just put in my 5 speed set up in. and i will have the fun in running all my wires again in this car . it wasnt really fun the first time . maybe this time it will be better.


thanks tom

Edited by thatguytommy, 31 May 2010 - 11:22 PM.

[3gencivic]

you will need to swap the. transmition mount, engine harness, clutch and throttle cables, cluster, dash wireing, you will have to run a pair of wires form the trans to the shifter wireing for reverce lights. you will have to remove the auto shifter wireing. slice in the nutral wire. shifter linkage and shifter.

[thatguytommy]

It should take a weedend to do . Lol or a week. I was thinking about just swaping out my dash in to the other civic. And I have the backup light delet in the rear. It sounds like a lot of work. I hopeing to find another si in good shape .but the ones I looked at were not worth the money.

[Bubba]

I just did a manual to auto conversion on my 87 civic dx.

The reverse light delete will save a little trouble. I agree with 3Gcivic on most of the points- passenger side trans mount, throttle cable, shifter linkage. But I'm not sure why you would need to change the engine wiring harness.

You will need to put in a blocking plate where the auto shift cable comes through the floor, and you will need to put in new carper to cover that area.

You will need to change out the plastic e-brake covers.

The manual car has a little metal rim at the base of the shifter that the rubber shift boot hooks around. It seems to be spot welded in, so you will need to come up with a way to fasten the rubber shift boot to the floor.

[zakats]

no need to swap harnesses, there will be extra plugs but you can cut and cap them off...
I did an auto to manual swap a few months ago, it isn't really much more work than a regular ol engine swap, just gotta make sure you have all the right parts before you start or you're in for a headache running back and forth to get what you need

[thatguytommy]

no need to swap harnesses, there will be extra plugs but you can cut and cap them off...
I did an auto to manual swap a few months ago, it isn't really much more work than a regular ol engine swap, just gotta make sure you have all the right parts before you start or you're in for a headache running back and forth to get what you need

won't I have to use my si harnesses in side the car for the ecu and vss ?
And thanks for are y'alls help..

[Bubba]

Oh yes- good point- you will need the Si harness to put the fuel injected engine into a carbed chassis.

[TribalHatch]

would there be things needed like the si gas tank and such ?

[Gabe87CRX]

No.

[rexsk8er]

anyone mention the pedal assembly?


bout the biggest PITA on any auto-manual swap

[zakats]

ah... swapping to efi.. guess that explains why you wanted to swap harness's

[3gencivic]

i mentioned the engine harnness becuse when i did the swap the auto dose NOT have the same firewall to engine connetor becuase it dosnt use a reverce from the transmission so the connetor is smaller on the auto then the standered.