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[TMills]

auto to manual conversion kit. I'm not sure how much this would take, but if you get the hydraulics and clutch equipment from a reputable shop, a programmer that could set the ECM to look like the manual program, and a parts vendor that could get good rebuilds or new transmissions/tcase parts/etc. you should be able to have a total kit. Maybe to make it more affordable you could have the customer source their own transmission???

Feel free to chime in, but I think there are people that would want to go both ways (auto to manual and manual to auto).

 

[RHestand]

Yes, I think there might be a market for your idea.

As an example, back in the 70's or 80's there was a fad with 1/2 ton short bed trucks.

Guys on the E. coast liked fleet side short beds, and guys on the W. coast wanted step sides. You can guess the rest of this.

I used to see hot shotters hauling a load of all step sides, then another hauling all fleet side truck beds, in each direction.

Somebody was making $, coming and going.

For instance, I would like to convert my 98 from an auto. to a 5 or 6 speed standard trans, for a reasonable price.

The problem might be, there may be much more demand for sticks over automatics. Then maybe in that case, some cash incentives might work.

Just thinking out loud.

Ray

 

[TMills]

I believe there would be more demand to go from a stick to an auto if the auto was built up to reliably hold higher higher horsepower. Maybe if a performance trans builder wanted to join in and throw in some parts??