can anyone give me some advice on a transmission s

[Tom Civic]

btw, I'm from Houston. What's a decent price to get a 99 auto civic ex jrsc converted to a manual? 1,000? I'm on a budget and want it done reliably also. Thanks.

[JRCivic]

Tom,

For the $1000.00 price tag... are you referring to LABOR alone or PARTS AND LABOR ???

For the labor, I would say this is a bit steep... however, your parts alone would cost nearly that if you bought all salvage (used) parts. There is alot you will need...

Manual Transmission, shift linkage, shifter, shift boot, manual console, flywheel, pressure plate and clutch disc, upper transmission mount, front transmission bracket, manual gauge cluster, clutch pedal assembly with slave cylinder, new brake and gas pedal assembly, hard line from slave to transmission... and this is just the big stuff. There is a host of nuts, bolts and wires that will be needed as well.

Good luck.



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'93 Civic Si H/B with B18C1, JRSC @ 8psi
Best 1320: 12.68 at 110 mph

[fastfour]

Unless you have a ton of time and cash on your hands and are looking for something new to tackle, sell your car and buy a 5 speed. I have a feeling you will dump a ton of money and time into that car and not be happy with it.

Zach

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94 Civic Coupe/LS Hybrid
JRSC@6psi
Turbo Convert
Import Specialty Automotive (253) 473-2606

[Tom Civic]

wouldn't it be a little ridiculous to take all my existing parts including supercharger, sell the car and buy a new and put everything back on? Its gonna cost me alot for labor and I'm not sure I'll get an even trade.

[Tom Civic]

say I get a professional mechanic to do the install and I provide the parts, would it come out alright? can u explain how hard it is to do this job? I hear people get motor and tranny swaps all the time, I don't see why in my case it seems so hard. Thanks all.

[randomwalk101]

Tom, please don't take it the wrong way...this is just my OPINION. But I think intead of swapping out the transmission which I'm sure you will spend load of cash on parts/labor and time, why not just sell/trade in the car for some better performance flatform? You can sell it with the charger on at a higher price? It doesn't worth it to pull the charger out again. Even if you decide to spend all that cash and swap out the tranny, with a civic/jrsc at stock boost, even then, I don't think you can keep up with a GSR/JRSC anyways...
Another option is to save up and go hybrid. Can you imagine B18C1/JRSC(or Turbo) in a Civic?

[pest]

Do you need to change out the brake and gas pedals??

I always thought you could take off the brake pad on the pedal, replace it w/ a shorter one, and then add the clutch thru the pre-existing hole in the firewall and that would be all you have to do for the pedals.

Clue me in,

Pete

[Tom Civic]

jrcivic: I'm talking about everything. what's the total price?

pete: I have no clue. jrcivic?

[Tom Civic]

Yeah you guys are probably right. I never expected to be faster than an SC GSR but I just wanted to keep the same car and make it as fast as possible. Thanks. I'll just get a header instead.

[falconGSR]

Tom I am in the same boat as you with my Civic. Its an auto. It's too costly to swap a manual into it. I know how sentimental we get over our rides but it makes more sense to find a car with a manual...

I don't know what I am going to do though. In my personal situation, I can't sell the civic, and its staying an auto.


[This message has been edited by falconGSR (edited December 30, 2000).]