Well after 3 weeks of downtime of the car, my Max is now a manual. For those who are contemplating whether to do this or not, if it's too hard or not... Do it. It's worth it. The difference with auto and 5spd is truely night and day. (Even tho i'm still breaking it in)

For the 3 weeks i've been working on it, most of the time was waiting for parts to arrive. Total hours i've acually spent on the swap is about 10 - 15 hrs total. The hardest part was running the clutch lines, because I had ABS. I only found out later that the clutch lines had a leak. So I fabbed up a custom straight line to the slave, this eliminated the top bleeder.

I followed Hal's conversion instructions, all in all they were really helpful. Only thing he left out was that you need to remove the automatic pilot bushing in order to fit the manual pilot bearing into the crank.

 

Nice! Wish I coulda come by to observe; wanna help me do mine sometime?

~THT

 

Sweet..........Congrats!

 

Congrats! Any time you do that much work on your car, its got to feel good
Welcome to the 5spd club, lol

 

No problem

 

wow! congrats... wish i had the money (saving for a bike) or time to do a swap. oh plus i'm not that mechanically inclined.

 

hey i wanna do this how much did it cost you and how hard was it to find the parts

 

Nice. 123456789

 

congrats man! We had a list of people that did conversions, someone needs to find that list and add your name to it.

BTW, isnt that bleeder not being used the master cylinder bleeder? What happens if u have air in your lines and want to bleed?

 

Congrats man!
Now there is another 5spd Crimson Blaze maxima on here. ha ha
You have thrown a ton of money at your car, but it looks great.

Long live the black leather interior with the RED!

 

Great job on the 5spd swap.. I would suggest that you replace that hard line with a SS line. I would be cautious using that hard line, with the engine and trans rocking back and fourth, the line my break.

 

I found everything from a salvage yard, I bought new axles, and a new clutch, clutch cylinder, all totaling about $1100

I directly connected one line from the master cyl to the slave.. So I just bleed from the slave if there were any air in the lines.

It wasn't done on my red Maxima. I picked up a 95 GLE for DIIIIRT cheap, and I did it on that. The red Max is unfortunately no longer mine, it was given to my sis, who just started driving. But a whole new project awaits

 

I and a few others have done the same thing. It turns out that brake lines have exactly the right fittings to connect to both the slave cylinder and the steel line from the master cylinder.

 

whats with the half *** job on the clutch lines? they're like 50 bucks brand new from nissan????

 

I never changed the pilot bushing on my car, so its not necessary to change them .

Havent had a problem for 2 years...also I ran the old lines similar way to yours but with all the original lines, until two of my lines blew. I've installed it the stock way, removed the abs and reran all the lines and it feels better (maybe?). it's just a pain to remove everything and reinstall it....

 

I didn't want to remove everything to take the original lines back out, I left them in. The custom line came in a 4 foot length and you can bend it to any direction. That cost me $3...

 

Don't forget about my 5 speed Crimson Blaze car!!!

 

just hope you dont have any problems with it...good luck.

 

I didn't know you were around here.
My bad....

 

What! It just got given to your Newb sister to drive!?
What is that?!
You had done so much to that car, it was not even funny.

 

congrats on the swap! but wuts the deal with u givin up the red max? that thing had so much done to it.

 

Yeah, I will def. miss that car... I'm removing the mods from that car to my new car.

 

That sucks, it would've been alot nicer to see the Crimson Blaze one with the 5 speed... you gotta love that color

 

you are my hero.

 

5-Speeds rule! Both of my Maximas are converts.

 

A 5spd GLE, nice work!!

5spds are the way to go with the maximas, I absolutely love mine

 

congrats on the conversion bro!!! I hope to someday be able to do this. Until then I will just pimp my red max automagically.

 

HOTTT, a 5spd on a GLE! wanna get a conversion on my car too, hopefully next summer

 

Great going Terry!!! I know that you have wanted to do this for a long time. Good to see that the swap went well.

Welcome to the fun side of driving.

 

5sp is the shizz......NOW you know what a max really feels like....

 

Ohh yeah, iv'e gone through half a tank of gas, driving around today... 5spd maximas are the way to go. Still waiting on my AE shift ****

 

Guess i got to this post late... just wanted to say congrats man and enjoy!!1 :-D

 

I am Crimson Blaze 5spd.
Factory.

 

^^^ Now that's a rare car!