engine and drivetrain Auto to manual swap. Keep the pedal and lever. It matters.

[eurotrash]

My car came to me swapped. Four speed. Always had pedal problems. Particularly after fluffy new carpets. Turns out the auto pedal lever wasn't swapped into the manual pedal box, and the manual lever scraped the wider auto hump. I even used the BFH to massage the tunnel IN! Fast fwd to my motor build and side draft build and the problem amplified. I couldn't get good pedal travel and WOT to save my life. Turns out that the manual lever/auto pedal combo had the lever way off center, protruding out the right side, and also hitting the top of the slot on the back of the auto pedal before WOT. I have been frustrated for MONTHS! I had tried every adjustment I could conjure up!

One of the Chicago guys contacted me and offered to include a new auto lever in his Walleth and Nesh order for me, and I finally installed it tonight, after more wrestling had occurred.

Boom.

I have the ability to adjust pedal height at idle, install a Tii stop, and still fine tune WOT to exactly when the pedal hits the stop.

YES. They are that different.

Dammit!

Edited April 2, 2015 by eurotrash

[peterschop]

I found this out when I did my auto to manual trans swap. I put a manual pedal box in and tried to snap my auto pedal on the nubs and manual lever all I got was a contorted mess that did not work. Because of the wider auto trans tunnel, you have to use the auto throttle lever and pedal.

[eurotrash]

Oh hi Peter! Thanks again man.

[Mike Self]

That's a valuable tidbit--haven't seen that referred to before.  Needs to be added to the article on automatic-to-5 speed conversion.

 

Ya learn something new every day about these cars!

 

mike

[txmatt]

How timely, got the auto pedal box out a week or so ago and was thinking of putting the manual box in today. Will have a look at this!

[eurotrash]

Its no joke Matt.  swap the automatic gas pedal assembly over.