manual swap question
10-08-2009, 11:13 AM
#5
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Sacramento
Posts: 17
hey man, I am planning to do a swap on my 1999 I30, im going with the vq3.5, and people say that my 3.0 tranny or 4th gen 5mt will go this 3.5, so I guess that there is not much difference between de and de-k, my guess is that it should fit... why dont you want to go with a 02-03 6speed?
10-08-2009, 03:47 PM
#7
nope. the 5 speed is stronger my freind.
when swapping in a 6 speed tranny into a 4th gen, we have to relocate the engine mount, (re-weld it). so im guessing you are going to have to do the same to get a 5 speed to work. also, im curious about the shifter forks. if they are going to be long enough.
when swapping in a 6 speed tranny into a 4th gen, we have to relocate the engine mount, (re-weld it). so im guessing you are going to have to do the same to get a 5 speed to work. also, im curious about the shifter forks. if they are going to be long enough.
10-08-2009, 05:54 PM
#9
Maxima 5-speed from 95 on is a pretty darn awful transmission. Mine needed a rebuild at aroung 90,000 miles. That is much to short of a life. Unless you like opening transmissions and replacing things, you might as well just maintain your automatic. No maxima manuals are particularly strong, except maybe those from the 3rd gen. Maybe the 6th gen 6-speeds as well.
10-08-2009, 06:09 PM
#10
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Location: Sacramento
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Maxima 5-speed from 95 on is a pretty darn awful transmission. Mine needed a rebuild at aroung 90,000 miles. That is much to short of a life. Unless you like opening transmissions and replacing things, you might as well just maintain your automatic. No maxima manuals are particularly strong, except maybe those from the 3rd gen. Maybe the 6th gen 6-speeds as well.
ha if you had to rebulid at 90k miles then something is seriously wrong with the way the owner drove it. either that or you just got majorly screwed over. my 95 has 187k with the stock tranny and replaced the clutch once. 6spd are nice but expensive and very hard to find. most just use a 5th gen tranny because they are newer and more easy to come by then a 6spd.. either tranny will work just search and be cautious about buying a used tranny..
10-08-2009, 06:32 PM
#11
ha if you had to rebulid at 90k miles then something is seriously wrong with the way the owner drove it. either that or you just got majorly screwed over. my 95 has 187k with the stock tranny and replaced the clutch once. 6spd are nice but expensive and very hard to find. most just use a 5th gen tranny because they are newer and more easy to come by then a 6spd.. either tranny will work just search and be cautious about buying a used tranny..
I have a 2000. Search ISB or Differential Bearings and read the threads that come up. Probably won't be too many because the search doesn't work correctly anymore, but before it yielded a ton of results. It's how I figured out what went wrong. They fail VERY frequently and it is very common around 85,000-100,000. I am not even close to being the first with this problem. I called the transmission place and he knew exactly how many miles I had and what broke before I even told him.
07-21-2010, 04:41 AM
#18
Wouldn't there be codes galore???... I also wanted to do a manual swap but the price was a tad high, I don't care whether its a 6spd or 5spd I just wanted a manual trans........ will the altima 5spd trans work???
07-21-2010, 08:02 AM
#19
i priced everything out looking to do this. Tranny (HLSD) is ~$1k, clutch and flywheel (performance) are ~$1k, not to mention all the shift assembly, clutch assembly, hardlines, slave cylinder, mounts, etc. not really worth it to me.
07-21-2010, 01:39 PM
#20
you would definitely be overpaying unless you were planning to go for some crazy clutch setup thats like $600
07-21-2010, 01:57 PM
#21
yea, i dont care if i got a HLSD, VLSD, or whatever LSD, i dont really care for locking diff as the performance output is the same (the same) and ill just get a open diff and save myself the $500 for other things
07-21-2010, 02:11 PM
#22
07-22-2010, 06:14 AM
#25
I have quite a few parts (clutch pedal, shift assembly, tranny mount, etc.) if you need them. Once I did the research on how much this stuff was gonna run, I decided against it.
07-22-2010, 06:18 AM
#26
I did the same with my 4th gen. Ended up selling everything. 4th gen swap is half the job, so yeah, me = FTL
07-22-2010, 10:25 PM
#27
so the spec v trans bolt right up to the 3.5 with no problem? im still considering doing this swap. im just curious of how many people have done this swap. i did this swap manual swap on an 88 a few years back and it wasn't bad at all.
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