well i lose 3-4 clutch packs in my 700r4 the other day. a local shop said id be looking at $1500 for it to get completely fixed. i was thinking a few hundered, so now im thinking about finding a donor car for a t-5 swap. if im going to spend the money, why not make the car more fun to drive.
but will i be hurting the value of my car. its a 1992 Z28 convertible w/49k miles on the clock. its going to need a complete paint job and a fresh interior anyways. I plan on keeping the orig tranny, but not fixing it.
should i do it?
anyone know where i can find a good donorcar for cheap?
__________________ Red 97 SS T-Top 6-Speed
Black 96 SS Convertible
Red 92 Z28 Convertible
Blue 91 RS Convertible 5.0
i'm all for the T5 swap. you'll be so glad that you did it. nothing beats cruising in a vert driving stick. it took me so long to find mine but it was well worth the wait and hassles when i got it. plus your putting an interior and repainting - a perfect time to do the swap.
I had a world class T5 in my second gen. They are a very nice shifting trans, I was just worried about durability as I build the car up, so I swapped it out to a 700R4. If you like driving stick, do the T5 swap. I can go either way. I appreciate the auto on the drag strip, and in traffic.
I swapped my 700R4 for a t-5 in my 91 RS, I was tired of having trouble with the autos... Total cost was about 400 bux for everything... i went to the junkyards about 3 times a week for about 4 months... and right when my 700 took a crap again I happened to go to a new junkyard and they had one, for all the swap stuff it was like 250 or something, and then a new clutch... it was well worth it in my car(91 RS hardtop with 140k on it), I just bought a 91 RS Vert with high mileage on the body and am doing a LS6/4l60e swap into it...but like you said you have a very rare/low mileage car... I think if it were me I would keep it stock, clean it up and fix the trans... but if you are not going to sell it do what you want to it, I never plan on selling mine so when ppl tell me I am destroying the value of my vert with swapping engines I just laugh, I am not doing it to get extra cash out of it.
