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I need to know everything possible to switch my car from Automatic to a Standard. Thanks in advance

trade in and buy a manual?

why go through the hassle? Your car would have to be pretty special to want to hang onto it that much i'd recon.

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trade in and buy a manual?

why go through the hassle? Your car would have to be pretty special to want to hang onto it that much i'd recon.

I live in New York (USA) and we do not have them readily available. They were only permitted in the US for a couple of years. And if I were to buy one from someone else it would cost me 70- to 80,000 dollars, If I can even find one. We drive on the left side and it is the only car in the US permitted to drive on the right side by US standards. What else would I need besides clutch pedal and manual tranny?

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Transmission from a RB25DET R33 in 5 speed of course

New Clutch ( I would do it since its all going to be apart)

Clutch and Brake Pedals

Driveshaft from the manual tranny

Clutch Master Cylender

Manual Tranny ECU

Those should be the main parts..

you should join up to www.GTRCanada.com were a little more local and have lots of exporters to help you find parts.

Hope that helps

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Transmission from a RB25DET R33 in 5 speed of course

New Clutch ( I would do it since its all going to be apart)

Clutch and Brake Pedals

Driveshaft from the manual tranny

Clutch Master Cylender

Manual Tranny ECU

Those should be the main parts..

you should join up to www.GTRCanada.com were a little more local and have lots of exporters to help you find parts.

Hope that helps

Thankyou much! I have linked up to "The Skyline Shop" in Canada and he has any part for them. Also I have linked up with RBmotoring in California with limited parts readily available. Do I really need to change the drive shaft despite the torque converter in an automatic tranny?

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You don't need a manual ECU! The ECU you have already will run your engine perfectly. The auto ECU is in the boot behind the seat but you don't even have to remove it since it just won't be doing any gear changes anyway.

edit - The main ECU is just in fron tof the passenger door under the kick panel, in other words there are two ECU's - one for manual and an extra one for auto.

Parts list

tail shaft or tail shaft yoke

gearstick surrounds and inner and outer boot

clutch and brake pedals

stick and gearbox

slave cylinder

master cyliner ( I think)

lines

clutch

gear stick knob

You could go for the full conversion kit second hand above for less than $3000 AUD before shipping.

There are plenty of suppliers in Australia that will supply you parts to the US. If you need help with this feel free to pm me.

While its not too hard to find most of the conversion parts it is becoming harder to find second hand gearboxes here - so for your reference its $3000 AUD for a brand new manual gearbox (just the gearbox) not including shipping.

Some extreme high quality clutches are made in Australia and you can get an ultralight 4.5kg chromolly flywheel and clutch together for a tad over $1000 AUD 12kg total weight for parcel including both.

Choice of clutch should be organic if your cars power is only lightly modified as you will have smooth clutch take up without shudder.

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You don't need a manual ECU! The ECU you have already will run your engine perfectly. The auto ECU is in the boot behind the seat but you don't even have to remove it since it just won't be doing any gear changes anyway.

edit - The main ECU is just in fron tof the passenger door under the kick panel, in other words there are two ECU's - one for manual and an extra one for auto.

Parts list

tail shaft or tail shaft yoke

gearstick surrounds and inner and outer boot

clutch and brake pedals

stick and gearbox

slave cylinder

master cyliner ( I think)

lines

clutch

gear stick knob

You could go for the full conversion kit second hand above for less than $3000 AUD before shipping.

There are plenty of suppliers in Australia that will supply you parts to the US. If you need help with this feel free to pm me.

While its not too hard to find most of the conversion parts it is becoming harder to find second hand gearboxes here - so for your reference its $3000 AUD for a brand new manual gearbox (just the gearbox) not including shipping.

Some extreme high quality clutches are made in Australia and you can get an ultralight 4.5kg chromolly flywheel and clutch together for a tad over $1000 AUD 12kg total weight for parcel including both.

Choice of clutch should be organic if your cars power is only lightly modified as you will have smooth clutch take up without shudder.

Thankyou very much :)

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