my friend has a 2002 maxima and wants to swap to a 6 speed....but we heard that a 5 speed from a 2000 or 2001 will work? is this possible?

 

hmmmmm......hopefully someone has some knowledge on this...im curious

 

SEARCH is your friend.

 

thanks, but i tried searching and couldnt find it thats why this thread was posted.

 

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?

 

why would you want to use a 5-speed? it will just be more headaches, not to mention that the 6-spd is a better, stronger trans.

 

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.

 

the maxima 5-spd? lolz

















wait, youre serious?

 

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..

 

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.

 

humm well maybe i'm wrong

 

the 5-spds are glass if youre running FI or a lot of nitrous, look over at the FI section and read the threads about upgrading the transmissions

 

6th gen HLSD is your best bet, you can find them for $700-$800

 

ok so say i get a 5 speed from a 2001 and put in my 2002 automatic...which ECU should i be looking to get? a 3.5 6 speed or the 2001 5 speed??

 

6 speed

 

so is it safe to say that the 6speed and 5speed transmissions are interchangeable you just have to reposition the transmission mounts?

 

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???

 

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.

 

there would be codes if you try to reuse the auto ECU, but if you go with a manual ECU then no, if done right no codes. also, I would think the altima trans might actually bolt up perfectly, minus maybe needing new axles

you would definitely be overpaying unless you were planning to go for some crazy clutch setup thats like $600

 

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

 

http://forums.maxima.org/5th-generat...highlight=swap
http://forums.maxima.org/5th-generat...highlight=swap

 

Why wasn't none of those threads stickied???... ill be talking this over with our mechanic

 

hoooper's mechanic probably wouldnt allow the thread to be stickied, for that one at least. he was banned over a personal dispute with that mechanic, who was also a mod

 

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.

 

I did the same with my 4th gen. Ended up selling everything. 4th gen swap is half the job, so yeah, me = FTL

 

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.

 

no, you need the 3.5 bell housing to be adapted to the specv trans. search for that info if you want all of it

 

It doesn't have to be an out the ball park expensive swap, if you lookin for the most expensive ish then it can be expensive..... I doubt ill ever spend more than $600 for a transmission ever