My Auto to Manual Swap IS DONE, finally! Options

[hurley97]

so i have the major parts for the auto to manual swap but now i need help
i would love to do it myself and everything...i just dont have the experience, or man power for that matter

ive gotten the ever popular "its not worth it, just buy a new car" which i choose to ignore, the "well i could do it for $2,000" which is way over my budget, and the wannabe mechanic doing work out of his garage who says "id love to try, can i give you an estimate" then never answers the phone again

id trust a 6gc-er over anyone else anyway so i figured id at least ask before looking elsewhere any more
i will pay, just let me know what you think is fair and i'll tell you if i can pay it

please help
thanks

This post has been edited by hurley97: Aug 9, 2006 - 9:03 AM

[presure2]

yea, the auto tranny is alot heavier compared to the manual.
john, it only took 4 days because of missing and wrong parts.
in reality, i could have done the swap in a full days work.
we broke off early on saturday cause i had already worked in the AM, so we worked a couple hrs, and called it a day so i could eat.
sunday, there really wasnt much to do other than install the clutch line, once we knew the TOB wasnt right.
monday was a dead day, we didnt touch the car.
once we got the parts on tuesday late morning, the car was back up and running in a matter of a couple hrs.
so, total time was prolly 6-8 hrs..by far no records were broken, but that wasnt the goal.
enjoying the car steff?