mcfly4001

ok, done with the swap, just tell me if i missed anything:

mechanical:
put a stock flywheel on (torqued that big butt bolt to about 320 lbs, used lock tight, and gasket seal), put the clutch in (used centering tool), put the pressure plate on (tor. the 6 bolts to about 20 lbs, put wedge collar and wire ring in, throw out barring popped into place corretly (i think).

put tranny on, and hooked up the driveshaft, to the drilled out companion plate, fits good and snug.

put clutch pedal in, put clutch master cyl. in, hooked the clutch master cyl. to the brake master cyl. resevoir, attached lines to clutch slave cyl., bleed the line, clutch pedal popped up good.

hooked up manual starter, reattached torsion bar (cross member), put midpipe back on.

electrical:
drivers side kick panel, i found the starter interlock relay, and jumped the two largest wires. then, i went to the passenger side kick panel, and jumped the two largest wires in the X-05 harness.

installed the manual ecu.

hooked up the speedometer harness to the tranny.

i think thats about it, is there any vacuum hose adjustments? anything else i need to take off, or add? please shard advice, thanks.

mcfly4001

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rx7racer11

looks like you did it correct... what did you do about the rear differential did you swap it out for the 4.10's or did you leave in the 3.90's

mcfly4001

nope i kept the 3.90 gears from the auto, just drilled out the companion flange to fit the manual driveshaft,thanks for the response, anyone else?

Mahjik

iTrader: (1)

You might check the vacuum diagram, but I remember there being at least one extra vacuum line for autos than manuals. If you haven't looked those over yet, you might check that out.

I can't comment on the wiring, you'll have to bug ejmack or cover8 on that, but most everything else looks ok.

Just keep your cell phone and insurance card with you on your test drive, just in case.

ejmack1

Wiring sounds good, all i did was jump the two biggest wires in the tranny harness though... Accomplishes the same thing...

You'll be fine.... I see you took my advice on drillin out the 3.9 companion flange...

mcfly4001

mahjik, im going to look up some stuff on this vacumm hose change, but i have not ran across anything in my millions of hours seaching over the last few months, so if u have any leads that might help me on this, please feel free to help out.

ejmack1, yep, thanks for the idea about drilling out the companion flange, it works great, and saved me some money, im not even kidding here, parts and everything, after selling my auto tranny, i might have been around 700 bucks in all this, u were right about doing it cheap,

thanks to all, and anyone else?

Mahjik

iTrader: (1)

Take a look here and see if this helps:

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hreadid=179520

ejmack1

Mahjik is right... there is a difference in the vaccum syste... but I have a very simple solution... get rid of it and run non seq

mcfly4001

ok, so do i need to remove this hose going to this "empty pipe" and where exactly is this empty pipe, its just kind of floating there in the diagram, thanks,

mcfly4001

and what does this do do/for the car?

Mahjik

iTrader: (1)

Yea, you should be able to just remove it. I believe it's located near the Wastegate and Turbo Precontrol solenoids (just behind them if I remember correctly).

If you pull the UIM, it will make much more sense looking at the diagram and the real thing at the same time.

mcfly4001

thanks mahjik, where would i be without u, um, just for knowledge sake, what does this hose do?

Mahjik

iTrader: (1)

Unfortunately, I have no idea. I don't have any experience with auto's. I wonder if it provided something for the torque converter? I never traced that line.

mcfly4001

well dang, thanks anyway, i might go trace it for the fun of it, thanks

edscholl

hey dude-
did you have to get a new brake resevoir? how did you hooked the clutch master cyl to the brake resevoir?

JONSKI

Congrats!

Grand total = $?

mcfly4001

wow let me think, some of yall will have a hard time believing me, so dont call me a liar, or an F'ing idiot, cause im honest, i estimating, i think i had about 800 dollars in it, thats with new plugs and wires and a fuel filter, and most of the vacuum hoses changed, but i sold my auto tranny for 175, and the counterweight for 35, i had about 600 in it, really,

any questions,

Lord knows i will have them

brads

There is a nipple on the driver side of the brake fluid resevoir with a
rubber cap on it. Take the cap off and plug the hose from the cylinder
into it.


I take it you fixed the wiring problems you had.
Congrats Mcfly!

ejmack1

I believe yah

JONSKI

$800 including plugs, wires, and hoses! Dayam!

I need to get my *** in gear and my 5-speed on. I've got money saved up, but my biggest concern is how long my car is going to be out of commission, and whether or not I can find someone with all the parts I need for cheap (I wouldn't mind a used clutch, but I want the 4.1 rear end and 5-spd gauge cluster).


mcfly4001 and ejmack1,
On a scale of 1 (runs like s***) to 10 (runs like a new factory 5-spd), how successful do you feel your conversion is and why? What would you have done differently?

Thanks in advance!

ejmack1

Well, when i first got the conversion done, it drove just as well as a buddy's stock 5 spd FD.

I am now installing my new 5spd block, a newly remanned 5 spd and fairly brand new turbo's... so we will see how it works... Plus i will more than likely have a answer to those electrical questions without majorly modifying or switching harnesses... The wonders of a multimeter hahahah

mcfly4001

brads, the car is finally running good, i might have to make that trip down there to fl.!

jonski, mines about an 8 out of 10, bc, i used the auto rear end, i think the manual 4:11 gears are a must., and i had to do a complete tune up (which i needed to do anyway, cause i left my car sitting in the garage so long, long story)

dude, if i had, had all the parts in my garage, at one time, and a car manual, and a little more knowledge of these cars, i would have had it done in two days easy, no kidding, thats by myself, with no jackstand, on car ramps in my home garage, its not hard, everything just bolts up, the clutch master cyl. holes are already there, no drilling, the tranny goes up there easy, just one wiring change, a couple vacuum hose changes, that kind of thing. im sure u know more about these cars than i did when i started, and having this website was a blessing, so u will fly through it.

just be patient, and start putting a parts list together, and find them, they are out there, and i could try to help u out here if u need some help finding them,

later man

paul

Zyon13B

what about the backup lights? did you figure them out yet?