Not Sure if this is the right place to put this if not sorry, For those wanting to swap auto to five speed heres my advice I just finished mine today and it ROCKS now every one has thier opionion to what is better forget all that and go with what you want I did mine for me and I think its the best time and money spent for me a few minor bugs to work out but nothing major.

BTW the the car is a 2004 GT was auto now 5 speed with Steeda Tri-AX short thorw sifter SteenRacing Stage to heads Comp 270 Cams Mac longtubes and Mid Pipe Magnaflow Cat Back Ford Racing 4:10 Gears, Acufab plenum and 70mm throttle body BBK CAI, SCT tuned by ED Clark

 

What was the total cost for the complete swap?

 

1600 for parts was quoted 650 for install but being a cheap *** got a friend and we did the install It is a PITA would have been well worthh 650 for me but it was fun and a good excuse to drink beer

 

Just to clairfy all parts except the clutch and Steeda Shifter Came out of a wreck 2004 GT

 

How did you deal with the ECU issues. Did you change it, or tune it?
When I bought my car my wife said ok as long as it was an auto. That's some wifely advice I wish I would have not followed.

 

I left the stock ECU the only issue I have right now is the CEL is on and my speedodmeter only reads to 30 Mph, I still have not reflashed the computer yet but will get that done and get it tuned this week but it drives sweet I really thought I would have some issues with the RPMs hanging while the computer still tries to shift the auto but it has not done that

it drives great and sounds good enough to give a DEF man a woody

 

what parts of the swap were the PITA parts? Did you have to modify the trans tunnel at all?

 

Trans tunel was ok,the hardest part was the pedals, i took the seat out and it still sucked so i removed the steering colum, and it made it easy, it really is just time consuming

 

Post the dyno graph when you get it tuned. And were those cams degreed? Can you give me some specs about the heads, flow #, what valves and springs are you using?

 

Damn man .. I am in the same situation (2000 GT Auto) as you and all this happened for listening to my damn wife , right now I am dying to make my stang manual but trying to get Ideas on how much would this cost having it done by a shop 'cause I sure dont know much about this ..(new to Stangs)

 

If this is what you go for it, I was quoted 600-650 for the install at a performance shop

 

thats a good price yeah , I really wanna do it and I have been to some local Shops in LI>NY and they said it would be around 3G's and done in 10 hours ..

 

Were there any rough spots during the main removal/install? Usually it's easy to remove things off the car, so I'm not worried about dropping the auto part. But was there anything to worry about when installing the manual tranny?



Also, what did you do for the dust shield? Where did you get the shield and bolt for it? The dealer quoted me $18 for that bolt, and my thread pitch gauge won't fit in the little hole so I don't know what size bolt goes in there.

 

I got everything from a wrecked car, The only real hard part was installing the pedals I removed the steering colum it then was not to bad