Well on Saturday I spend about 10.5 hours at work and got my car all done.
The wagon is not all back together yet but still needs more work as well. I will need to swap a non-turbo engine harness into the car to make the Auto tranny work in there.

I will be making a write up on the swap in the next month. I have to get more pics and write it all up.

Here is one pic of the car almost done. I will be taking more pics soon and adding it to this post.

 

Drooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool....... .........

 

I can't wait. I found a couple manuals around here in the midwest (one with 167k and one with 200k), one for 1250 and one for 1400, both in kind of rough shape. But I found someone with a M56H for sale that could swap casings so they it has the speed sensor for about 1200. Really considering it since the M56H's are better from what I've read and those are only available in 96/97. hmmmm....decisions decisions.

The 850's look sooo much better with that manual shift stick in there. I CAN'T WAIT.

 

LOL here is a few pics through the process.



Used skate board bearing on the end of the cable to tighten it up thanks to 850Tony.










That's all for now.

 

What a tease.

 

LOL yes!!!!!

 

+1........Showoff.lol......

 

You all just wait until I do my engine/manual swap, then we'll see who's boss. Haha.

Except yours is still yellow.

 

Ok we will see!!!!! Lol

 

I smell a dare in the air............

 

BTW, I will be swinging by your shop on Wed. afternoon for an Oil change. I will be drooling all the way there in hopes of a peek at the 5 speed!

 

Ok I will be there. I might not be the one doing the oil change but will be helping kind of if it is my trainee.

 

 

Tech, since we have practically the same car, year wise, what did you all buy new for the transmission swap? I've been reading about it a lot lately and I've gotten some ideas of what should be replaced, but I don't know if it's exactly the same with the M56H's and M56L's and what HAS to be replaced. THANKS!

 

Only new parts I bought were the clutch kit.
Everything else was swapped from the other car.

 

Ok, that seems to be easy enough. I guess I'll just wait until you put up your write up for this before I ask any more questions, since most of the answers will probably be in there anyways.

 

Sounds like a plan.

 

Awesome job Tech. I really wish you were closer to me. I would have you help me swap my auto to a manual.

 

If you were closer it would have been a fun weekend thing.

 

i would really love to pull off this swap and get that stupid automatic out of my C70. i'm lusting over that 6 speed in the R models....the front brake calipers would be good too.