As a few of you know i bought shwartscamaro's vert or atleast i think thats his screen name lol. Well today a friend and I removed the engine and trans. Tomorrow I took the day off and hopefully we do the t5 swap on the vert. I have an 85 z28 i'm using as a donor car. I am keeping the trans and engine and am parting out the rest of it. So hopefully tomorrow we swap in the trans and engine and will be on the road. If not it'll have towait till we have time again. Anybody have a few tips on swapping trannys let me know before I jump into this swap.

 

An update:
I completed the engine swap just need to install the distributer, i removed the auto trans, cut the whole in the console for the manual shifter. I still need to cut the whole through the firewall, swap over the clutch pedal, and finally mount up the t5 tranny. It is honestly easier then i expected but real time consuming. So far its been 2 entire days of working on it and I still need another day maybe 2 to complete it. Hopefully it all goes well

 

Good luck on the build seems like your learning alot about thirdgens. Hope it is done earlier than you think. Again good luck with the build.

 

I wish I had the time, moeny, and place to do something like that...

Good luck on ur build

 

I'm doing it all in the garage of my apt lol i have a 2 car garage there but i don't think i'm supposed to be doing it there. I don't hafve the money either but i came accross the vert real cheap and already had the parts for the 5spd swap from my 85 z28

 

See, but atleast you have the garage to do it in... I rent a room in a house... I dont even really have a driveway to change brakes or oil, let alone take on a project like that...

 

I see waht you mean but thats only untill the manager finds out then i won't have a garage to do it in either lol she doesn't live on site so its been good so far.

 

I did that swap on my 91 rs, Your right it isn't too hard just time consuming. let me know if you have any specific questions...

 

yeah what chip did you use for your car once you did the swap? i am currently looking for one from a 91-92 tbi 5spd and I think I may have found one

 

I used a 92 rs tbi with 5 speed... I got it from pick a part... it worked great

 

by any chance do you still have that chip? since i saw you are swapping in an ls1 you probably don't need it anymore

 

You know what, Yeah I do...

 

How much do you want for it and when would i be able to drop by and pick it up?

 

Are you ever in Riverside?
Is 30 to high?

 

No but i can be hahahaha. I live right off of the 605 and 5 interchange. Today i'm taking a drive to yorba linda which is close to riverside does that work for you?

 

I am home anytime after 630, and I have weekends off... I have no idea for a price...
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Yeah today I get off at 3... what time would you want to meet up

 

Does your car now have a tpi? If so, don't change the chip, contact Kevin to have your chip errased and burned for the t-5. There are some other little mods you would want done as well, and Kevin can also optimize your ship's settings for your engine. If you are running the set up you have listed in your signature in the first post on this thread, you will only be good until the car needs to be smogged. At your first smog test the intake manifold, carb, & manual choke are an automatic failure!

 

No my car is tbi. Yeah i know its automatic failure which is why i'm keeping tbi. That engine with mods listed on my sig is currently in my 85 z28. I am not going to install that engine on the vert. I want to keep this one stock to not have to hassle with smog. I contacted kevin about burning a chip but he said he doesn't do that for TBI. So I just bought the chip from johnybravo

 

Yeah, I think the old chip burning program Kevin had would burn tbi chips, but they had to upgrade the program because of bugs or something and for some reason the new program doesn't like tbi. What was the induction system on your 85 IROC originally? Are you keeping that car? An updated tpi system could get you as much power as your current set up with better economy and be smog legal.

 

no i'm parting out the car. Originally the car was carbed but I am removing the trans to do a 5spd swap on the vert and I already started parting it out.

 

Thanks again for the purchase!