Looking for a shop to do transmission conversion in Orange County

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Shane65

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I'm in Huntington Beach, looking for a shop that would be able to help converting my automatic to manual..

Pricing out conversion kits right now, just need a shop to help with the install.

Any recommendations?
 
Get with a car club and ask for help. Are you into wrenching? Do you have the manual hump already? Dont have a shop name for you.
 
pishta said:
Get with a car club and ask for help. Are you into wrenching? Do you have the manual hump already? Dont have a shop name for you.
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If it's fairly straightforward, I don't mind wrenching.. the kit I'm getting comes with a manual hump...
 
You could pay a shop but the hacks nowadays would probably do a rush job that you could do better. The hardest part will be welding the hump in. The rest is modular, just nuts and bolts. If you have a cherry picker, consider picking the front of the suspensionless chassis up and rolling the entire motor/transmission under and lowering the body onto it. Easier than lowering the same motor/trans into the bay (so we have been told) that way you can get the exhaust all set up outside the car.
 
Shane65 said:
I'm in Huntington Beach, looking for a shop that would be able to help converting my automatic to manual..

Pricing out conversion kits right now, just need a shop to help with the install.

Any recommendations?
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I'm with @pishta on this. Any shop will just do a half *** job that you can do better yourself. If you need help with the hump, you can use my Duster as a guide. Mine is a factory manual transmission. Like Pishta said, everything else is nuts and bolts. If you have all the parts then it should be easy but time consuming. I have a Lincoln welder too in order to weld in the hump. Just will need some seam sealer.
 
No need to weld the tunnel in. We used screws and covered the seam with aluminum tape in my son's Dart. Worked great. Oh, and the location of the hump will be obvious when you set it in there. Put it down on the auto tunnel and spray paint around the edge. Cut about 1/2" inside the paint line.
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Jim Lusk said:
No need to weld the tunnel in. We used screws and covered the seam with aluminum tape in my son's Dart. Worked great. Oh, and the location of the hump will be obvious when you set it in there. Put it down on the auto tunnel and spray paint around the edge. Cut about 1/2" inside the paint line.
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I didn't think of using screws. I guess rivets could work too instead of screws.
 
screws could be nice in that you could actually remove the hump for work but pop rivets would be pretty easy, drill-poke-pull-POP! .
 
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