View Full Version : Auto Gearbox Dead, Manual Conv Help Needed


WillDV
06-04-2007, 10:01 PM
Ok, so my auto tranny is on its last legs. The tranny slips whenever I accelerate from a stand-still. Now, the fact that my car has an automatic tranny has always bothered me a bit because I've always preffered a manual, and this is my first auto trannied car. So now that the auto is on its way out I'm seriously thinking about switching my car over to a manual gearbox. What I need to know badly, and what I can't seem to find out is what all I'm going to need to swap over to a manual.

The things I'm expecting to replace are obviously the tranny and all the cosmetic interior bits that go along with that, but does anyone know what other major parts I'm going to require? Mr. Project did a manual swap in his touring but I couldn't quite findout from his thread what exactly he needed to modify to make it all work. Long question short, does anyone know what parts I'm going to require to swap my car over?

e.g. tranny, clutch pedal, diff etc.

Jcbe34
06-04-2007, 10:10 PM
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=747281

My car was a 540i, but the parts list is the same