manual conversion

[BuildItYourSelf]

Can we reuse our driveshaft?

The gxp drive shaft is about 1.5 inches shorter.
I'm sure if you got a good driveshaft shop around you could get it shortened.

[Posidon42]

The advantage is that everything we have done to the cars, except for cutting the hole in the firewall, is entire reversible. If this turns out to be a monumentally bad idea, we can always put it back the way it was. Not that getting a driveshaft would be hard, but I personally didn't want to cut or permanantly modify any of the stock parts to make this work.

[G8GT721]

The advantage is that everything we have done to the cars, except for cutting the hole in the firewall, is entire reversible. If this turns out to be a monumentally bad idea, we can always put it back the way it was. Not that getting a driveshaft would be hard, but I personally didn't want to cut or permanantly modify any of the stock parts to make this work.

Which I hope it doesn't, as I am seriously considering it soon. I don't plan on modifying the old shaft, just buy I new one cheaper/less headache

[BuildItYourSelf]

I recovered more pictures of the build from my old phone.
3rd pic. Not the rear end isn't for my car. Its for a real car meant for drag racing/street.
Last pic is mid muffler cut to fit in trans tunnel. I had to redo it and take another 1/2 out of each side.

[BuildItYourSelf]

last pics are the plug for the clutch sensor under the dash. the markings for drilling the hole. and the hydrilic line from the slave routed under the booster tight up to the fire wall.
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[BuildItYourSelf]

Well today I got the car to run!!!
After a little trouble shooting she fired right up.
Turns out it was only the ground wire from the engine to the body. (Can you believe the sob gave me all the problems.) Its OK tho because I would have needed Chris whites modified bcm for the manual to work properly. (Bcm looks for the tcm to be in park to start and causes anti theft problems.)
The new bcm don't give a crap what the TCM thinks now and will start in reverse if it wants. Hahaso all seems good and all I have to do now is throw the manual back in the car along with all the crap that goes along with it. Do some more looking over everything and once its good to go I'm going to smoke the rears off the bastard because I had the car for a year and a half and I can now finally drive it. (Was in the military and car was in storage far far away.) But if you think about it I bought it wrecked and I was only able to work on the car a total of less then 45 days so far and its just about done. I would say that isn't to bad at all.
I hope there isn't any major problems when she starts road tests.
I will keep everyone posted.

[G8GT721]

Welcome back to the states!!🇺🇸

It's probably for the best if you burn the rears they have been sitting to long could be unsafe. Come to think of it do the fronts aswell for safety's sake!!

[BuildItYourSelf]

thanks but I have been in the states since feb. I was in Colorado and the car was in pa.

let me know if you do the swap ill give you my number and we can talk about it and ill give you all the info you will need.
now that all the issues have been solved it really isn't that bad. plus once you sell the auto stuff the price isn't bad either.

[Posidon42]

Congrats man. I am seriously jealous and appreciate all of the help you gave me. I'm also looking forward to getting my car running, but I don't get back from my deployment for another couple of weeks. Already have some stuff on order so it will be waiting for me. Burn some rubber on my behalf!

[BuildItYourSelf]

I removed this thing that holds the key in until its in park from the column and it works fine.
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