this winter i think im ready do dig into my car a bit. im planning on doing SFC's, shock tower brace and possible a T-56. is it to much trouble/expensive than its worth? should i just buy an ls1 m6 car and leave mine as is? does it de-value my car?

thx guys i appreciate ur input

 

my car has 88,000 miles.

 

Ragtop, I did a t56 swap this past winter. It's a moderate amount of trouble. You need some fab skills and a good amount of mechanical ability. Was it worth the trouble and expense? #$%^&@ YES. I love my 6 gear. Dean

 

haha ok...thanks. i appreciate ur opinion. how much did u end up spending?

 

Ragtop, I spent

$1200.00 trans, flywheel, clutch, hydraulics
$42 third gen pedal set
$27 console shifter plate
$20 resurface flywheel
$69 new clutch master cyl.
$40 new slave cyl.
$127 clucth disc, pressure plate , TO bearing
$320 speedometer cable conversion
grand total $1845.
Worth evert cent too.
Maybe could have used the old hydraulics and clutch, but didnt want to take a chance.
I made my crossmember and did all of the work, so I saved that money. Dean

 

I spent a little more than Dean did, but I'm the one that did the speedometer conversion on his trans and many others here and I had to pay for special tooling and material for fixtures to be able to do the conversions. So that is included in my total cost. I also went with premium parts all the way through the trans. Brass shift fork pads for all forks, the heavy duty "long" tail shaft bushing, spohn cross member for my torque arm, the whole nine yards. Was well worth it for me.

I think I ended up with about $2200 in everything when all was said and done. Took about 3 days to do, but I did it right the first time. Took the car for a ride and it was perfect. And a year later all I've done is change the fluid in the trans a couple of times to get the metal particles out of the trans that are always there when new gears are installed and they seat into each other.

I wish I'd done this many years ago. I have 3.73's and I just loaf along at 70 on the freeway. And no worries now of breaking the little T5 anymore.

 

wow...thats not bad at all...I WANT TO DO THIS SO BAD! lol thanks guys, i appreciate ur help

 

i wanted a streetable car with descent gas milage so i did the t56 swap it was a long road for me i went from the 700 r4 + 373 gear 16 mpg to the t56 + 323 gear 22 mpg its all i expected it to be im crusing 70 mph at 2000 rpm's and it will eat mustangs all day and will spin my 235 55 16s all through first and some in second first pic is my iroc second is my roommates 95 mustang gt 3 passes smoked him by at least 4 lengths every time he does have about an inch more tire than me i tried to tell him if i spun less id beat him by more but he didnt get it dean its nice to know im not the only one who fabed up his own crossmember do you have any pics?

 

what engin do u have? stock 305 ?

 

I have a Ramjet 350, gets 23 mpg hiway and will run circles around the old 305! Dean

 

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