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Hi Folks,
I'm back with a problem for which I don't expect to get much sympathy!
I'm the proud owner of two legends and am not totally satisfied with either!
I have a white '94 GS with a six-speed tranny and a black/black '93 LS with an automatic.
I like the feel of driving the white GS six-speed, and I like the looks and feel of seeing my black LS and being in the black leather interior.
What I want, of course, is a black/black '94-95 six-speed GS! (Join the club, right?! Not many of those puppies around! Probably none that I'd want to pay cost for!!)
I also have, sitting forlornly in my garage, a 3.5 engine and a Type II intake manifold and a set of Type II heads.............! I've been, so far fruitlessly, looking for a black/black, manual transmission, '93-95 LS or GS to with engine problems or minor body damage.
Nothing has come my way and I'm starting to think the better course would be to take the pieces I already have, acquire a six-speed tranny and swap them into my '93.
I've done the searching and read about automatic to manual swaps, but nothing has given me a good feel for how difficult that swap is. Would it make more sense to keep looking for a car that is already a manual and swap into it?
Or are the modifications required to accomodate a manual tranny where an automatic currently resides not that burdensome?
My current thinking as I agonize with this problem (I know, I know, cry me a river!), is to keep looking for the black/black manual car, put the Type II manifold, just the manifold, not the heads too!, on the '93 automatic, and suffer the inconvenience of driving both white GS six-speed, and the Type II manifold equipped black/black '93 automatic while I look for the perfect, for me, Legend.
OK, that's it. If you were me, what would you do?!
All comments welcome.
Thanks.
Henry
I'm back with a problem for which I don't expect to get much sympathy!
I'm the proud owner of two legends and am not totally satisfied with either!
I have a white '94 GS with a six-speed tranny and a black/black '93 LS with an automatic.
I like the feel of driving the white GS six-speed, and I like the looks and feel of seeing my black LS and being in the black leather interior.
What I want, of course, is a black/black '94-95 six-speed GS! (Join the club, right?! Not many of those puppies around! Probably none that I'd want to pay cost for!!)
I also have, sitting forlornly in my garage, a 3.5 engine and a Type II intake manifold and a set of Type II heads.............! I've been, so far fruitlessly, looking for a black/black, manual transmission, '93-95 LS or GS to with engine problems or minor body damage.
Nothing has come my way and I'm starting to think the better course would be to take the pieces I already have, acquire a six-speed tranny and swap them into my '93.
I've done the searching and read about automatic to manual swaps, but nothing has given me a good feel for how difficult that swap is. Would it make more sense to keep looking for a car that is already a manual and swap into it?
Or are the modifications required to accomodate a manual tranny where an automatic currently resides not that burdensome?
My current thinking as I agonize with this problem (I know, I know, cry me a river!), is to keep looking for the black/black manual car, put the Type II manifold, just the manifold, not the heads too!, on the '93 automatic, and suffer the inconvenience of driving both white GS six-speed, and the Type II manifold equipped black/black '93 automatic while I look for the perfect, for me, Legend.
OK, that's it. If you were me, what would you do?!
All comments welcome.
Thanks.
Henry