She's alive... Bought all the parts i needed... brought my car in Monday morning and the car was done today... It had absolutely no start up issues and I'm using my automatic ECU... I did buy a 6 speed ECU that i am sending to techno square and will be swapping that in also... For all you haters thats been writing all this BS about trade in your car and just buy a 6 speed lol...

This was done by my mechanic so i got a special price but lets just say that i spent about $1000 on parts if not less uuummm actually its more than $1000, its about $1350... but you have to do your homework and find your parts... bought the majority of my parts on car-parts.com and shifting cables, MT mount and flywheel bolts and some other miscellaneous parts from Nissan... the most expensive parts were the tranny obviously and shifting cables... took me a good 9 months to find all my parts... the work done on my car is immaculate... it looks stock... but it is work... a lot of cutting out holes for the clutch petal, the master cylinder and bolt holes for the MT mount... I say that it is definitely worth it... i do have a parts list so i will be posting it later with some pictures from my phone... remember this swap was done on a 5.5 gen..

Here are the pictures as promised....

My beast...


The interior changes..

 

congrats. whats total cost?

 

whats the TOTAL COST bro? i want mine in 6spd too instead of 4matic...

 

hey what about the auto gear indicator? P-R-N-D-1-2-3
u have to change the gauge too?

 

i'm waiting for the total cost from the dealers.....

 

Wow!!! This gives me hope to keep my I35.

Please post parts list. Will your mechanic do any other 6 speeds swaps? New York is not too far from me and I wouldn't mind getting the swap done.

 

i'm sorry to say this but you are bound to have problems.. if not right away, then later.. i mean, i really hope you don't have any problems, but i've learned that if it reaquired that much work, its not meant to be done. but hey, hope it all works out well for you.

 

they quoted me 10-15k

 

I'm not sure of the diferences between swapping a 5th gen vs. a 3rd gen, but my swap has been done for over a year and has been driven over 20000 miles on some of the roughest roads in the country and I haven't had any big issues...It's all about knowing your **** and doing the job right!

 

for many 4th gens too.

 

Parts Needed:
(From Car-parts.com)

6 Speed Transmission
1 MT ECU
Both Manual drive shafts (its a MUST, buy with tranny if possible)
1 shifter console piece (interior), Shifter, Shifter **** & Boot
1 brake pedal
1 clutch pedal
1 Clutch master cylinder
1 slave cylinder for transmssion (optional, may come with tranny)
1 MT Fly wheel
1 MT Starter

(From Nissan)

Flywheel bolts (6)
Clutch bolts
Park/Neutral switch (optional, may come with pedals)
1 clutch kit (clutch disc, pressure plate, throw out bearing) (could be bought used from junk yard)
1 Manual tranny mount
Locking pin and clip for the clutch pedal to the master cylinder (you could bend a nail but I would go to the dealer and pay $4)
1 shifting cable

In total including installation i paid $2500... but i got extra work done to my car so thats why i said special price.. He's repainting my front lip that my dad #$% up... but well worth it... My mechanic even used hydrolic lines for the master cylinder... i'm so impressed with the work done...

Important Info - the passenger side axle must be from a MT 02 - 03 Maxima... the shaft itself is longer than the AT one... AT Axel will not fit for its too short... MT axle shaft from the metal plate to the end should be at least 17'... if you try to buy this piece from your local parts store, they will sale you the wrong one because no body really carries it... must be purchased from a junk yard.. or if you have $800 to spend from the dealer...

Newly installed MT tranny mount...



And this is me all day... ITS DOABLE!!!!!

 

Notice how the P-R-N-D-3-2-1 is covered... i used an 00-01 chrome ebay bezel, painted it flat black and put it behind the original bezel... looks extra clean... don't have to replace the gauges...

OOOHHH!!!! and notice no engine light...

 

Its pretty much plug and play as long as you have all the parts... the hard part is the metal work... you have to shave off the AT mount to place the MT mount and drill holes for it... there was already a whole in the firewall for the shifting cables to go through... the only other thing is a hole for the clutch petal and reposition the ABS module bracket ... sounds like a lot but for a mechanic who knows what he's doing its nothing...

 

thats awesome. hope all is well.. It's be pretty fun to have a 6 speed..

 

Man i wish you made a write up.. i want to do this soo badd

 

His name is Ali 718 323 4780... but you have to have all your parts... he will not hunt for parts for you...

 

good job man.
dont let people bring u down.
enjoy your six gears, lol.
dont burn your clutch out now!!!!
lol

 

These might not be that clear cause it was taken with my phone... but this picture is of that white rectangular shape over the caliper... That is where they cut out a whole to get to the corner of where the MT mount would be located.. this was done to create holes for the 4 bolts that hold the mount to the body...


this is of the shifter... both ECU's on the passenger floor... its only connect to the automatic one and works but you must change it to a manual ECU to get rid of the engine light and pass inspection...


This is just the pedals...


and this is the master cylinder... notice the hydrolic line...

 

Dude that looks sweet. I wanna get this done so bad now.

 

If I didn't have plans on selling my car......

 

lets have a groupdeal....i'm in

 

Maybe I missed it, but which tranny did you use. HLSD? 04? 02-03non lsd?

 

I converted my car from a 3.0 auto to a 3.5 5spd... No problems for almost 2 years... Now it's getting the 6spd treatment. I understand that mods=increased risk for problems, but if you do it right you are golden.

 

02-03 non lsd... i didn't know that the 04 would fit on my car you got me thinkin now...

 

04 also has a 'better' FD.

 

I didn't know 04 has a different FD...? But in 02-03they do offer the lsd

 

wow thats crazy man!!! Huge congrats on that, everyone use to say how its not worth doing the 6MT swap, but some people are like me, they get attatched to the car, and to sell it just isnt an option.

Looks nice man, keep up the good work!

 

Aight so i can get all my parts and crap, take my car down to him, along with a truck loaded with my parts on it, and he'll charge me 1200 to do the deed????Thats wassup!!!!You gotta reply man, and lemme know the deal

 

haha why didnt you guys just buy a 6 spd....but congrats tho you will love the 6 spd 255 horsepower...now you have total control of your car=)
Looks good tho.

Cheers

Tip py Toes

 

Wish I had the money

 

Great job... Enjoy it man...

 

just a question, why not get the HLSD installed at the same time? or get a HLSD tranny? are they hard to find?

 

i assume he didn't know that the 04 maximas would work, which probably meant that he didn't know that the sentra spec v trannies would work (which would have been cheaper and all spec v has lsd), so given that he only had a choice from 02 03 lsd manuals, those are probably twice the price of a non lsd tranny (PROBABLY, NOT DEFINITE). don't know bout 6th gen lsd trannies, but spec v lsd trannies can be had for as low as 300 bucks because there are so many.

 

The real problem is trying to find axels for those trannies to work....

 

Go to bed. DAMN!!!!

 

@!%@% you...