MonkeyMagic

i am in the process of converting my eg to manual and swappin in a b18, but anywayz... i was just get sum stuff done wasting time at a friends house. and i took off the console, theres a white plastic thing with a slider in it that controls the gear indicator on the dash and the reverse lights...

I unbolted this and had it hanging down beside my console and when i went to back out of the driveway i couldn't see. so i slide the plastic thing to the reverse position and ~voila~ lights! (duh) but anyways the point...

i take off down the road, forgeting i had on my reverse lights, but i noticed my sorry a$$ d15 wus pulling harder than usual! and it was a VERY noticable difference.

so heres the thing....
to go faster put the slider in either reverse or neutral and all gears will pull harder and you won't go into that annoying overdrive in fourth.. then to save gas or go slow(er) (normal stuff) put in any forward gear or park, and finally if you plan on removing your keys...put it in park position

yeah i kno its kinda ghetto to have **** hanging out of your console but im poor and anything free that makes speed is awesome!

95hbMatt

haha..that is ghetto..here's some good info on rewiring it so you don't have to do all that with the slider....this is from youngkow here on h-t:

Auto to manual swap
Now, I did a complete engine swap, so I do not know what entail the transmission swap itself.

So the manual transmission should come with the slave cylinder attached, but if not, you will need one.
You need a master cylinder and the reservoir, and the clutch line and the clutch pedal assembly and a brake pedal from a manual car.
I used a braided stainless steel, but trust me, your better off getting all of the hard lines from Honda. The stainless works good, but it was a b!tch finding all of the right fittings. Also I thought it was going to be a lot cheaper, but it ended up costing about the same.
There are two switches on the clutches, but I opted not to use them. If you want you can wire them in. I will tell you later on in this little write up.
First, detach the shifter cable from the auto shifter and the tranny and pull it out. Then remove the auto shifter. Yay! <IMG NAME="icon" SRC="https://honda-tech.com/forums/images/smilies/emthup.gif" BORDER="0">
Then you need to cut out the cable guide. I just bought aluminum and covered up the gaping hole.


Now drill two holes for the shifter stabilizer holder, called a rubber extension mounting (#16) @ http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/...y5=SHIFT+LEVER and I used a piece of aluminum for strength where it bolts up.


Now everything will bolt right up. Attach the shifter to the little rod sticking out of the tranny, attach the shifter stabilizer rod (#13){ from the HAP link above} to the tranny, and bolt up the rubber stabilizer holder.
Now for the wires. Remember, these color codes are for a 99 civic lx.
Yours might be different. A Helms manual will help a lot.
There is a big plug that connects to the shifter assembly.

What you need to do is cut the plug from the auto shifter assembly, and leave about 5 inches of wire.
There are two really fat wires. This is so that you can start the car. You will need to connect these two together. Or what you can do is, run these wires to the switch on the clutch pedal assembly.
Then there is a black wire you will need to connect to a green wire with a white stripe. This puts the car in “park” so you can take the key out. Now you can also hook this up to the other switch on the clutch pedal, but remember everytime you want to take your key out, you have to press the clutch.
Finally, you need to find out what plug you used on the engine wiring harness to hook up to your reverse sensor on the manual transmission.
Find out what colors they are, and find the colors on one of the ECU plugs. You should find it at the ECU plug that has all of the auto tranny sensors. A multimeter helps a lot because there are multiple colors.
Run these two wires to the yellow wire and a green wire with black stripe at the big plug that you cut off from the auto shifter. Now your reverse lights should work.
Hopefully this made it easier on you, and not confused you.

civic dx

so you are saying to put that slider thing in neutral and the gear selecter in drive and it makes the car faster?