Im about to do an Auto to Manual tranny swap in my 3rd gen and was thinking about hot wiring the auto main engine wiring harness instead of buying a whole new 5 speed main engine wiring harness. I have heard this is how some people do it. Is it hard? What all needs to be done to the auto harness to make it work for 5 speed? Any info involvin the wiring harness would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

Hey Siv,

While I don't know the answer to your question, its nice to see that you still have the 7. Man! Finally getting down to the swap huh? I think someone on the forum is seeling a engine wiring harness...check the for sale section.

Hope to see ya up in Jax sometime....

 

Hey man.. I bet your 7 is all decked out now huh.. Yea, i have all the parts for it now except Clutch, light weight flywheel and 5 speed main engine wiring harness.

My friend is gonna do the swap. Hope we can do it.. Im mainly worried about the wiring harness thing. I hear you can hot wire the auto one , but im not sure how hard that is or if its simple enough.

Send me an Email at Jsiv11@hotmail.com when u gonna be in jax again sometime. We can hang out or something.

 

I know there will be a difference in safety switches at least. The inhibitor switch in the automatic is used to prevent the car from starting in any gear other than park or nuetral. And the 5-speed has a nuetral safety switch that only allows starting with the clutch in. Don't know if the plugs are identical.