I have an LS motor (b18A) with an automatic tranny. Tranny needs to be replaced - it's gone. Planning to do a vtec conversion at the same time but what do I or can I do with the tranny? Manual conversion seems to be impossible for doing it myself, but how about modding an auto tranny by playing with the ECU, could you do that??? Or is there a chipped ECU for auto trannys?? Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!!

 

Save yourself the time and dissapointment in the longrun and just swap in a 5 speed.

There are performance upgrades for the auto's (i.e level 10) available but as far as I know none of them offer any sort of upgrades for the valve bodies which is what one of the major weakpoints is in a honda automatic.

But regarless you'll get sick of it and fed up from the time it takes the tranny to shift and the long *** gearing since it'll hold you back BIGTIME, not to mention it downshifting when you do/don't want it to if you plan on racing the car.

..my coupe was automatic and boosted.

 

so how easy or hard is it to switch to manual tranny???

 

Someone on this board can chip your Auto ecu.