anyone in the east coast or new jersey who knows a guy or has a garage that can help me with my vehicle?

i thought about it hard ... and i've come to a conclusion that im going to try to change my car instead of buying another one.



im planning to either ...
1. change the transmission and have someone fabricate the clutch pedal and stick in the center consol. (if its even possible)
2. an entire engine swap from a d series to a b series.

i doubt places like RS strauss will do that. and none of the shops around here can do it ... they keep telling me something about "its hard and expensive" and the odb2 computer has to be changed.

anyone know a place?
(im looking to spend no more than 2.5k on number 1, and if i must, i'll probably go all out on number 2)

 

what? are you talking about just an auto -> manual swap? that's pretty straightforward, you just use a 5-speed pedal assembly.

 

excuse my termonology.

i just point to things when im explaining things ... but at least you get my drift.


has it been done before though?

 

auto to manual swaps have been done before, many times

 

ive heard it wasnt easy though....

 

yeah. i've just emailed a hell of alot of people just now and they all responded ..

"what your planning to do is opening a whole new can of worms."




this is gonna suck.

 

I had my car swapp from an auto D series to a 5 speed JDM GSR. You wanna spend 2500? My motor alone was $3,000 so good luck.

 

so you spent 2500 dollars on parts + services?

cause honestly, that isnt that bad.



people around here are smacking me with 6 grand.

 

I spent $3,000 on the engine. $250 for manual conversion including parts. $100 for a hasport tranny mount, and $850 for labor on the motor swap. Then I got goodies like a skunk2 intake manifold, new clutch, resurfaced flywheel, header blah blah. I dropped almost $6500 on everything. The shop did a good job. Theyre in Rockaway NJ its called custom car performance. www.customcarperformance.com Talk to rob, tell him Pete with the White GSR Civic recommended them. Theyve got good prices, best I found. Labor for swap is $850 and for the tranny conversion its $250.

 

i ****ING love this forum.


thank you pete.

one more question. how about the computer and whatnot in the car? did they tune that or is that a whole new subject?