Auto to 5 speed swap wiring questions!

[delsolcharlie]

here is a pic of my old wagon, jdm legacy brighton =]

[1991exrs]

man this helps a lot

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whats up man... theres two ways you can do it... the simple make-it-work way, or the "proper" way... if you dont have to deal with actual vehicle inspections, you could get away without dealing with hooking up a relay as a neutral safety switch. there are three things you need to deal with:

#1. making the car think that the shifter is in park
when you removed the auto shifter, u disconnected a big grey plug. snip the black and green/white wires and connect them together. in the picture, i had cut the matching reverse harness off of the shifter, leaving enough wire to splice to.

#2. hooking up the reverse lights
on top of the tranny is a reverse lights switch, it has a yellow and a green/black wire. they need to be connected directly to the wires of the same color on the shifter connector. agian, in the picture you can see two black wires coming from the right gegtting spliced in. they run through a hole in the firewall and connect to the wires on top of the transmission.

#3. neutral safety switch
there was a brown 2-pin connector that went to the old shifter. the easy way to do it is cut the connector off and splice the two thick wires together (solder them!). or if you need to do it the "right" way to pass inspection, follow the diagram below. the "clutch interlock switch" is the switch that gets pressed when the pedal is put all the way to the floor, it has a yellow 2 pin connector. wire colors are indicated in the diagram.

[img]http://www.****.com/pics/auto_to_manual/shifterplug.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.****.com/pics/neutral_switch.gif[/img]

[1991exrs]

this is so help full

[zero2sixtyr35]

yeups. it's helpful. but how much will this cost you to get it done at the shop if you don't have the time or tools or space?