OK, I'm no longer merely pondering this, the transmission guy called and told me my box is toast...
This is depressing. I've owned the car for a few months, and hardly driven it, because the ignition barrel died and put her off the road for weeks.
OK, so the main question I have is if I buy a diesel manual as a donor car, can I use everything except the box, and then get a 5 speed from elsewhere? The reason I am thinking of doing this is that the conversion will be a lot easier with a donor car sitting there beside the Coupe, but I am unlikely to find a V6 manual in WA. However, I can probably get a box from the East or O/S so if we can get everything else from a local wreck we can make this a viable proposition. There's a diesel here with a blown engine available for a few hundred bucks.
This is depressing. I've owned the car for a few months, and hardly driven it, because the ignition barrel died and put her off the road for weeks.
OK, so the main question I have is if I buy a diesel manual as a donor car, can I use everything except the box, and then get a 5 speed from elsewhere? The reason I am thinking of doing this is that the conversion will be a lot easier with a donor car sitting there beside the Coupe, but I am unlikely to find a V6 manual in WA. However, I can probably get a box from the East or O/S so if we can get everything else from a local wreck we can make this a viable proposition. There's a diesel here with a blown engine available for a few hundred bucks.