I recently got a hold of a manual transmission my friend wasn't using from his new engine (his car is was originally automatic). I mated this trans to my D16Z6 which is going into my EF shell. Now the EF shell has a mechanical speed sensor wire coming from the firewall and the speed sensor on the trans itself is electrical. Is their a way I can get this trans to work with the mechanical speedometer? What would I need? Thanks in advance.

 

if im not mistaken on the ef's the speed sensor is driven by a cable, from the tranny to the cluster, if you did a gauge cluster swap you can wire it correctly but im not sure how it work as is right now. ive never heard of it being done. best bet see if the mechanical one fits in there otherwise do a cluster swap then you will have a hookup for electrical speed sensor. hope that helps

 

I'm not sure, but I think that the electric speedo is a magnet pulse sensor that is picked up off the differential (or it could be gear driven, but I don't remember). I know that the cable speedo is driven off a gear that is on the differential. The only way to really know is to pull the speed pulse sensor off the transmission and look and compare the two. If it's anything beyond switching the speed pulse sensor on the tranny, then I would just wire up an electric speedo.

 

just pull the electrical speed sensor out and swap in a mech speed sensor!! and plug the the calbe in!
or go the hard root of swapping in a different gauge cluster and wireing it up to the car and then to the speed sensor and the ecu.