Will Buy The Wiring Harness From Anyone Who Has It

 

Why?? if ur switching from auto to stick, just change the tranny/pedals

 

Robert Said I Needed A Diff Harness

 

if you need it, drive up to LA (san fernando valley) junkyards and grab it.

 

Its not ABSOLUTELY necessary. You can do the swap without it, but will have to rig up something for the reverse lights. Other than that, its not necessary.

 

rig something up?? i dont like the sound of that!! what about the neutral saftey switch?

 

just be sure that the tranny comes with those wires for reverse lights. it will be a direct plug in to the stock harness.

 

got one! ode' to the rotaryshack team!

 

errr... I never knew that manual trannies had wiring harnesses. I didn't know they had anything electrical with them. Is there supposed to be a neutral saftey switch? If so, then mine definately doesn't have one that works properly. I've accidently tried starting the car in reverse 2 or 3 times >.< (First months that I had the car [had never driven a stick on a daily basis before]. I don't do it anymore, though )

 

your harness has been rigged!! uuuaaahhhh

 

Mine's soon to be rigged

Nothing connected to the tranny yet, finished the auto-5spd swap not too long ago.

 

The what?

All of my RX-7s have been able to be started in gear. It's almost a required function for *when* your clutch hydraulics die.

The wiring harnesses are identical in many respects, after all manual cars have the PRNDL-light connectors under the shift boot (aka the connectors people like to connect and blow the interior lighting fuse). The neutral switch and 5th gear switch are mainly emissions concerns, although the emissions testing performed in most states never goes up into 5th gear and so it's not that important anyway.

- Pete (my car's backup lights don't work, either...)

 

i was wondering about the pedals... i am looking at an 85 GSL, and the only downside to the car is that it's an automatic. how hard is it to swap the pedals in? do i have to weld any brackets to the firewall, or is it all bolt-in? thanks for the help, Ian

 

Its all bolt in, but is a total bitch since you have no working room. Its a good idea to try and get pedals from the same model year, and is much easier to keep the original bracket and change the actual pedals than to try and replace the entire bracket with the pedals. I learnt from experience, rx7doctor set me straight.

 

cool, thanks for the info. anything else i should know about a tranny swap, besides unbolting the old one and bolting the new one in (along with wiring up reverse lights)?

 

What year is the automatic? If its got the overdrive (like mine did) You will have to make brackets for the crossmember to bolt the tranny up.

 

auto driveshaft is different from manual.....you need a little center console thing for manual, you need clutch flywheel and pressure plate, you need the clutch master cylinder and the lines...the pedal assembly and the wiring harness, and then you have to change your timing to manual...throughout bearing, the fork for the clutch

 

thanks again, but i don't understand what you mean by changing the timing. if you could clarify

 

im pretty sure that it is slightly different for manual so you get a timing light and adjust it, the timing is the ignition, and the exact setting is in the manual

 

The neutral safety switch is on the automatic tranny equipped cars and keeps the engine from starting unless the AUTO tranny is in neutral. You just have to jumper the switch, you don't need a different harness. Don't make things harder than they have to be.