hey HT. Dont flame on me please and just hear out my story. well im a full time college student with a part time job that pays min wage. and recently my LS Auto motor has been craping out on me. it has 156k miles on it and well i guess its almost done for. Im also planning to do an auto to manual swap. but right now i dont have the money for the tranny and a GSR motor at one time. but i have money for the gsr motor. so my question is: is there a difference between the wire harness from the auto to manual one. and is the shift linkage different. or just what do i have to buy to make this auto gsr work. yeah i kno i heard it all from get a new car or just go LS turbo or what ever. but im into NA and i always wanted vtec haha. but i think i can wait and milk my motor till it finally blows and save up for the complete swap. so what do u guys think? and thanks for your input, and please no negative comment.

 

ever think of lsvtec?
itll be a lot cheaper and easier to swap a newer ls engine into your car, just to get you around town. Then once you get enough cash, you can convert it to lsvtec.

 

yeah i thought about ls vtec but i just dont have the time for lsvtec and im not much of a hybrid motor guy. well jsut because my friend blew 2 of his lsvtec motors.

 

buying the gsr engine is a great idea but if u want to convert to manual, i think it be much better and less problems to just buy an oem manual. but if you dont want to sell then save up ur $ and do the engine swap and the manual conversion.

 

why not b20? Hella torque and less expensive than gsr

 

haven't u heard B18c is #1

 

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yeah i looked into b20 but cant rev high and well if i get a new motor i want something faster than what i have right now.

 

just get the gsr

 

ok if i go gsr then wire harness and half shaft ect.. are they all the same? or what do i have to do to make this auto gsr work? and my friend has an auto gsr ecu

 

ok so whats it gonna be auto or manual?

 

well so far im just going to get the motor and put it with my auto ls tranny.

 

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You will not like it at all with that Ls auto tranny. You be better off with a complete gsr swap including wire harness, ecu and shift linkage.

 

unless u know a shop in so cal that can do it in like a 2 days without laggin i would probally do it right away. with a loan form my parents or friends.

 

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if your goint to start something new just do it the right way do the complete swap.

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if you are going to do it yourself you need the drivers one halfshaft (i think drivers
+jack shaft but its been a while), you can splice peces of the harness to make it
work, the new ecu, a conversion trany mount,and the shift linkage. Expect it to take 3-48 hrs depending on ability. My best advice is to do what you want. Have
some freinds help and budget in beer into the equation for your freinds.

 

i see. man so confused still. but i guess i'll wait and read more on the forums about turbo ls and the whole swap. thanks HT.