my buddy bought a 91 hatch, he wants to convert it to from an auto to hydro manual. how hard would it be to do this conversion, would you recommend him flipping thiss car and buying another one with a stick?

any help will be much appreciated thanks

 

It all really depends on how clean the car is and how attached to it he is. I'm planning on doing an auto to manual conversion on my car but it's a granny fresh 91' with under 100k miles on it.

 

how hard is it to hang new pedals, ya plus this things got the drivers side sub frame all rotted away, I was just seeing if anyone done and if its even worth it to

 

https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-crx-ef-civic-1988-1991-3/88-91-crx-ef-civic-frequently-asked-questions-faqs-1508680/
There is a how to guide in there.
The auto to manual swap is not difficult its is pretty much straight forward as replacing a clutch with a little but of wiring. The pedals is tricky but as long as you drop the column you should be ok.

 

It's real easy. It only took me and my buddy 4 hours to do it all

 

Its a straight forward swap, i dont know what tranny your looking at to do a hydro swap or why you would want to go out of your way to convert to a hydro setup unless the tranny calls for it, but if you end up putting a cable trans in it follow the instructions oh how to adjust your clutch, any idiot can bolt a trans in, but im usually fixing a customers car because they set the clutch cable too tight and burned it up. just a word of caution, best of luck

 

pretty much bolt-in, better off running a cable clutch assembly and buying the conversion kit online to connect a hydro to the cable, if you try to run a hydro clutch it will be ALOT harder.

conversion kit just bolts on the front of the tranny and your cable connects to it instead of running lines and a MC from the pedal