norel
Active member
I picked up an 06 5 speed car that a tree fell on for basically scrap metal prices. At the time I wasn't sure if I wanted to kick the roof back up and replace back window, or part it out. Now there's an 06 dsg car available with a bad transmission $1000. I'm considering buying it and swapping in the manual transmission. I have a few questions.
Tune- will the auto ecu play nice with 5speed/no transmission controller?
Wiring- can I just jumper the neutral safety switch and drive it like that without issue?
Will the cruise work without a clutch switch until I have time to sort out clutch switch wiring?
Would I be better off swapping ecu, key, cluster?
Mechanical - what are my options for a smf setup? I'm assuming I'll eventually end up between 300-400lbs torque, but I'm not opposed to doing clutch twice if a heavy duty setup is more than $500-600 more than cheap option, as I could end up driving car on the stock tune for quite a while.
I have done a couple of auto to manual swaps, but on older cars, a b4 vr auto to aaz 5sp, and a mk4 gas/auto to alh 5speed. I dont really want to do want to do a full harness swap on this one though, so I figured I'd ask what I'd be getting myself into. Thanks for your input.
Tune- will the auto ecu play nice with 5speed/no transmission controller?
Wiring- can I just jumper the neutral safety switch and drive it like that without issue?
Will the cruise work without a clutch switch until I have time to sort out clutch switch wiring?
Would I be better off swapping ecu, key, cluster?
Mechanical - what are my options for a smf setup? I'm assuming I'll eventually end up between 300-400lbs torque, but I'm not opposed to doing clutch twice if a heavy duty setup is more than $500-600 more than cheap option, as I could end up driving car on the stock tune for quite a while.
I have done a couple of auto to manual swaps, but on older cars, a b4 vr auto to aaz 5sp, and a mk4 gas/auto to alh 5speed. I dont really want to do want to do a full harness swap on this one though, so I figured I'd ask what I'd be getting myself into. Thanks for your input.