had 97 civic was given to me. Goin to swap a GSR into it soon. Need to know how much work am i lookin at to get the Clutch assem. installed in the car?
Any help would be great.

Searched it up (not to much help)

 

Your searching skills suck then.

This has been covered many times.

Auto to Man conversions are easy, especially on Hondas due to their simplicity. Just gonna need a man transmisison, clutch cylinders, clutch lines, shift assembly, shift linkage, manual ECU, clutch pedal or manual pedal assembly (either, or), and 'tis about all. May be a few other odds and ends but that's the main gist of it.

It's not hard at all, can be done in 1 day if you have all the parts (assuming you don't run into any trouble) assuming you've never done it before.

You get somebody that's done it before and you'll be able to knock it off in no time at all (depending on how fast you work as a team).

 

It's not that easy, and it cannot be done in a day

 

Syndacates pretty right on that. If you have all the parts, then it will be an easy conversion. Try to find someone who has done it before, and it would be knocked out in notime.

 

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The first automatic to manual transmission swap I've ever did was on a chevy, the next was on a Honda. The one on the Chevy I was working with a friend (who knew everything inside and out ), the Honda I did by myself, I had all the parts and I did it in &lt; 1 day. It is that easy and CAN indeed be done in a day.

 

Did a swap and took me nearly two days. It was worth it. , didn't have to pay an extra 1000 to have someone else do it.

 

im about to do it saturday, it's goign to be a ******* cake walk.

 

getting the pedals in is gonna be tricky...should be easy...only cutting that is needed is to remove the automatic shifting assembly.. and put a new sheet of metal over the whole....other wise its pretty straight forward..just like a swap..10x easier then doing one in 92-95 egs...good luck!!took me whole weekend just to do it..


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Modified by k_motor at 9:56 PM 11/27/2006

 

Hope you don't have a bad back, doing pedals when its 110 outside

 

Im about to do it this weekend with 40 degrees. Will suck ***

 

I did 2 manual swaps on civics, the pedals could take a whole day alone, not to mention swaping intake manifolds and some wiring. I bet you cut the brake pedal in half, I don't do things half-***. Beside looking under the car to see the spot welds drilled out for the cable holder, you can't tell the car was converted.

 

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I did my pedals when it was 100+ outside, dripping and soaked with sweat

 

Doing it in a day and all is great and can be done but expect 3 days and hope for 1. Take your time, not worth it to rush.

 

will i need any other special tools besides a 8mm punch, and a huge *** socket for the axles.

 

After swaping the auto to manual, would i have any mechanic problems because the car it wasn't desing for that, .I have the money to do it, but im worry that i might screw it up, and start spending money on repairs, wich i havent had any problems with the auto transmission, i just want something fun to drive, and some more hp, i have a 00 honda civic and want to do a b18c swap, but i m not sure yet if i should make it stick shift or leave it auto? what would you advice me with?

 

you don't need to take the axles out, and you can use a backwards drill bit wrapped with some electrical tape as a punch

 

My ride...Its auto, iam going to convert it to stick asap. Car was given to me so i couldnt complain. heh

 

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I did mine in one day and had no clue what i was doing. even landed up running to the junkyard a couple times that day. only thing that may slow you down is the wiring at the auto shifter

 

Seriously if you dont think you could handle this i dont recommend doing it. Its not a hard job but you should be well knowledgable in doing it (esp. if its 96-00 cause theres quit a few wiring jobs to do). Heres a how to on everything that needs to be done for 96-00 for 92-95 just do all the labor stuff and get that auto to manual mount, you cant do it without it.

If you dont feel that your knowledgable about this swap i recommend not doing it yourself and just paying to get it done.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1337459

 

Someone told me i needed new axles. Well im going an 89 si tranny on a 91 auto

 

yeah, I m changing it too, to stick shift it seems more fun plus i would like to a turbo, but tomorrow the ppl at the jdm shop they re gonna tell me how much is going to be for the b18c swap with labor and everything..so cant wait to drive stick, i want to have some fun driving.

 

Me either...School has me broke though so i gotta wait till summer before i do any swapping to my ****..sucks alot...Maybe throw in a nice little turbo for ****** around on the streets

 

my civic is auto, but im going to changed to stick shift for some fun driving, is it $5,000 thousand dollars to expensive for a b18c1 swap, with transmission, axles, everything included with labor, or is okay?



Modified by 00****chico at 11:41 AM 12/2/2006


Modified by 00****chico at 11:43 AM 12/2/2006

 

I just finished a jdm B18C swap with a 5 spd conversion.. took me a while but I wouldn't pay the labor price on that ****. I doubt $5k is going to cut the mustard if you're including labor in that figure. I wouldn't be surprised if labor would run you upwards of $2k for someone knowledgeable to do it.

The first time around you have to figure everything out, get used to what you're doing, so a day might be pushing it. It's definitely possible though. I would say a weekend should be feasible even if its your first time. Looking back, the second time I'd have to do all this I could probably do it in 1/10th the time frame.

However, I disagree on the pedals being the hardest part. I would say it'd have to be removing the auto tranny and putting the 5 spd on since its so damn heavy, especially if you leave your engine in. I had my engine out (since it was a swap anyway) and tilted it up so I could "drop" the transmission onto it... took me like 2 hours for all that and wound up crushing one of my fingers when the input shaft finally fell into place and the entire housing came down . So yea, engine out is the easiest way, but don't do what I did