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Gearbox swap

PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:28 pm
by codylibertysti241
Anyone here replaced their 5eat for a manual before on a BP5?

Re: Gearbox swap

PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:42 pm
by bigBADbenny
Apparently the 6mt won't fit without major mods to the transmission tunnel.
Better off buying a manual. I'm guessing the 6mt does fit the 5mt body...

Re: Gearbox swap

PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:06 pm
by codylibertysti241
devastation. what about the 5mt?

Re: Gearbox swap

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:01 am
by bigBADbenny
Maybe take a peek at the threads on LGT.
6mt master swap thread.
5mt I'm not sure...

Re: Gearbox swap

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:13 pm
by dr20t
Nope even 5mt needs custom xmember to fit

Re: Gearbox swap

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:29 pm
by codylibertysti241
Okay I'll check em out.

Gearbox swap

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:45 pm
by Sean82
bigBADbenny wrote:Apparently the 6mt won't fit without major mods to the transmission tunnel.
Better off buying a manual. I'm guessing the 6mt does fit the 5mt body...

What mods, other than custom cross member, are needed? From what I've seen, the 6MT is actually a tad smaller than the 5EAT...??? Narrower at least.

Apparently it's been done though, I was at AM Auto earlier this week and Al mentioned knowing of a BL that's had a conversion done. He couldn't give me any more info than that.

Re: Gearbox swap

PostPosted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 4:54 pm
by codylibertysti241
Sean82 wrote:
bigBADbenny wrote:Apparently the 6mt won't fit without major mods to the transmission tunnel.
Better off buying a manual. I'm guessing the 6mt does fit the 5mt body...

What mods, other than custom cross member, are needed? From what I've seen, the 6MT is actually a tad smaller than the 5EAT...??? Narrower at least.

Apparently it's been done though, I was at AM Auto earlier this week and Al mentioned knowing of a BL that's had a conversion done. He couldn't give me any more info than that.


I would really like to know who has done a successful conversion on a gen4 and any info they can tell me about the procedure