Well after years and years with my Tiburon (back in 03, and being turbo'd since 04), I'm converting my tranmission to manual. I have obtained a totaled 03 5 speed Tiburon in which im swapping all the parts I need directly to my car (tranny, wireharness, all accessories related to the tranny). I'm about half done, considering it was a pain removing an engine/tranmission out of a front ended Tiburon whose body was wrapped around the engine.
I will be including pictures and build notes... should be a nice addition to my turbo setup.
I wanna know more about this swap.. Everything looks like its going to work? Ive only heard of 2-3 tibs doing conversions.. and I know some were a fail.. defiantly wanna know more info!
Yesterday I removed the engine and tranny from the car. This is a picture of what it looked like before I took the hood off to get the lift in place to pull the motor.
11/28/2001:
* Remove firewall from 5 speed car (dont feel like gashing up and cutting the firewall I have now... wouldnt look nice).
* Remove both dashes.
* Disconnect both main engine harnesses.
* Trace mounting holes for the clutch pedal and obtain coils to allow me to stud the firewall so I can use the oem bolts to mount up.
no more parasitic loss from the auto tranny.... hello manual fun! Just make sure to have a good clutch combo to handle that Psssssshhhhhhhtttt power! lol
I will not get the alum flywheel; the arc flywheel is still half the weight of the OEM flywheel but doesnt have to deal with the draw backs of the alum flywheels.
Is this going to be a daily driver for you, or a track runner? Cause something strong like a 6-puck clutch is going to be tough for daily driveability but will handle your power.
1.) I like a challenge, and I always wanted to have a manual 5 speed Tiburon for my Turbo setup (7 years with my automatic boosted, time for a change). Also I changed from my Solstice to a 2011 2SS Camaro 6 speed; wanted a new everyday driver. Need to upgrade my signature.
2.) The automatic does not handle power for less because of the extensive upgrades between the torque converter change, to tranny valve body pump, and stronger clutch packs, to dual coolers... I have done it all since 2003 and spent a lot of $$$ experimenting and proving theories right and wrong to myself.
The swap is proceeding very quickly! As you can see all the threads on both the manual and automatics are in the same position, making the clutch and break pedal an instant swap.
I'm interested as well, my girlfriend chose the automatic transmission for the car and she no longer drives this car and I get so bored driving auto. Saving up for swap, hopefully it doesn't break the bank too much
Good Luck on swap.
Just noticed it's been a month since the last update. Did anything go wrong?
Just talking about this the other day with a friend. Let me know how it turns out and the final costs of the project from the car to spare parts. Best of luck on the remainder on your project.
I know I am going to get booed for this, but I actually want to go the other way, lol sick of driving stick, and want to swap to auto so my wife can drive it while I take the truck. The tib is just too small for all my work gear.
Doubt the swap would be worth the price, would love to see a final tally on this.
Good luck with the project!
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