im considering investing in a swap to a manual...can anyone please give me a bit of information about this would i need a whole new tranny or would the same one still be used and also about how much would it cost to make the swap my car is a 2000 v6 if that makes any difference

 

i was thinkin bout doin this to my older stang....totally not worth it. should b about 2 grand in total. and if ur smart ull prolly get gears and a tlock while ur at it.

commin from some1 with a v6. get a gt and get it in manual if u want a standard that badly. other then that ask jack the ripper.....hes got an amazing auto stang and im sure he can give u some more input if u wanna bring up ur shift points (tuner necessary :P)

 

would i need to swap out the whole trans?

 

might as well. get a better tranny then a stock one. FRPP is great.

 

hold up scratch that....dun think they have transmissions

 

yeah i was thinkin about it because im pretty sure the problems with my car has to do with the transmission( i cant just put it in drive and move...i have to have it in a lower gear get rollin than bump it to drive in order to go) so i figured that if i need to put a new transmission in it than i might as well swap it to manual as well

 

u might. im callin a friend for u now.



he says that u can keep parts if u can find a beat up one off some1 else to switch back and forth with.

in the end he also said dont do it.

what makes u wanna get a manual so badly just curious? if you wanna just bring up some times at a track then just get a xcal or somethin and ull b fine.

 

whats wrong with ur car? need some info, try describing as best you can what it is

 

i would just rather drive stick...its my first car that ive had for 2 years and when i was buyin it my rents wouldent let me get a v8 or a stick because it was my first car...if i could i would just sell it and buy a v8 stick but im in college and money is 2 tight to be tryin to do that now

 

i got the same deal. what kinda problems u got with it right now

 

im not sure whats wrong with it...at first i would just be driving down the road and when i would hit the gas the engine would just rev than it stopped doin that for awhile and was runnin fine for like a month but now like i said when ever gears change like say backing out of a parking spot and i go to put in from reverse to drive or even park to drive the car wont move so i have to drop it into a lower gear to get it rollin...but once its actually moving foward i can put it in drive and it will move

 

is it leaking anything? check ur tranny fluid.

for the night jack ur back end up and look if it dripped anything when u wake up in the morning. had the same thing wiht a fox body. it was my first car too.

i ended up tearing a hole in the transmission from neutral drops trying to be a show off and squeek my tires.....the easy way. gimme a break tho i was 16 and didnt know i should b holdin the break while i do it:P

 

haha...i love breakstands...my friend who works on cars said i had a tiny leak in the transmission about a year ago and every once in awhile ive put in more transmission fluid and a few months ago i put in some stop leak stuff for transmissions and as far as i know their hasent been anything leakin since i put in the stop leak...would gettin the leak checked out and fixed possiabally fix the problem?

 

yes. no question about it. quite the expensive job though. i got fed up with it and sold me car and bought a newer one. got a 95 v6 after that.....then i blew the suspension on that too. now im in a 01 v6.

 

damn...i was rele hopin it wouldent be that expensive of a fix, my dad was talkin about takin my car and using it as a trade in along with his car so he could get a new one ive finally talked him outta it...if its gonna be 2 expensive to fix i might as well let him get rid of it and pay off the rest of the note...the only bad thing about it is i get left mustangless and no money to buy a new one lol

 

do you think it would cost less than a grand to fix???

 

bang for ur buck.....fox body 5L. much cheaper then u could sell ur sixer for. and if its 88 or older u can make it an "antique" on ur insurrance. atleast where im from

so get ur dad to trade it in...then buy ur *** a new stang :P

pull the whole daddy....ill give u my car if u give me some money back :P

 

i knew the guy that was gona do it for me and he said it would just b parts that he would charge me for.....so i couldnt give u a straight answer, sorry

 

dont tempt me...i would love a fox body...ive always wanted one lol...i may just do that over summer...the hard thing would be gettin someone to buy mine

 

cough*parts car* cough

lol my first car was a 90 5L Lx god it was great.

worse comes to worse just let ur dad take it like i said and then have him pay u what the discount form the dealer woulda been for ur car.

or......auction

 

i found a 96 v6 for like 3k lol plus its a stick...only bad thing is its got 120k miles

 

120 for a 96 aint bad. my 95 had 200 when i got it and i went a year and a half on it......+ i drove the **** out of it. thats y the ball joints got fucked

 

damn...i love mustangs and all...but i hate buyin them lol

 

love buyin them.....hate spendin money.

ok well im off to work. keep askin around for more opinions. theres many differences between canada and US. ur switch might b cheeper then u think.....however i was talked outa it......best the luck and welcome the the boards