How Hard is it to do a Manual to Auto?

[JaK FRoSTWhiTE]

We've all seen people doing the Auto to Manual swap and what not.
But have we seen people do the Manual to Auto swap?
I know it seems weird but its for my Dad.
He doesnt want to drive Stickshift anymore...

Im not asking for a tutorial, i just want to know if you've seen it done before.
Me personally, i've never seen such a thing.
But then again, if you got the money, then anything is possible right?

[NutBucket]

I suppose the hardest part is the wiring....isn't the trans on its own harness or is the dash harness different as well?

[93EXaesthetic]

yeah i plan on doing my soon ..before teh end of 06...i wanna hear some horror stories..and some good stories.

i think the hard part is runing the clutch cables..i dunno.i have no clue on this subject matter.

oh shit i wasnt paying attention..i thought he said auto to manual...woah..why would you do that?. haha

[Dirty Harry]

Wow, manual to auto? That's like trying to convert one of your friends to being a homo.

Realistically, it could be done... but you'd have to get a harness from an auto car and cut off the shit for the tranny (or at least some 2-pin honda sensor connectors and some wire), and then wire those pairs back to a TCU. Wiring from the TCU that goes anywhere else will of course need to be taken care of.. get some good diagrams and a multimeter. Auto shifter and related wiring, auto axles...remove clutch pedal assy. and install the block-off plate that auto cars have. Then, you have the tranny mount... I don't know if there are any mounts you can swap in place of the stock one that will avoid the cutting and welding in of an auto tranny mount bracket.

A few kinks, but nothing major... it's doable. Just, damn... manual to auto... lol... "Okay, car! You are about to undergo an operation which will damn you to slushbox hell! From now on, you will royally SUCK! Muahahaha!"

[cp[mike]]

i had two cars, both 93, one auto one manual. i was swapping the motors between them, i was going to convert the auto car to manual and the manual car to auto. then i realized it was too much work (see below) so i got an extra 5spd tranny and "conversion kit" and just made them both 5spd. i had all the parts to swap the two and make the manual one auto but it REALLY isnt worth the work at all.

to convert to automatic, you are going to need the automatic engine wire harness (5 extra plugs for the tranny), and the firewall harness (wiring for the rear mount, absolutely needed if you plan on using the auto engine wiring harness) and dashboard wiring harness (proper wiring for the TCU, shifter, and new gauge cluster). shifter, shift cable, tranny and its related parts, and the automatic torsion bar for the passenger side. also the rear mount/bracket and gauge cluster, also the new brake pedal... ummm... cant think of what other little things at the moment. you will also need to cut and weld the new tranny mount on the side of the engine bay.

sure you can do the swap by just swapping parts and not all three wiring harnesses, but the wiring that would be involved would be dozens and dozens of wires, all completely custom. you would basically be rewiring an entire dash and engine harness from scratch. the reason converting to manual is so easy is that you can just leave all of the extra wires disconnected since the manual tranny is just that: manually shifted.

[xScott]

w00t! AutoMAGIK pwnz j00!!!!!11a!!

[accordme93]

Well I'm sure you all are familiar with the Kobe Lambo that he gave to his wife. First Lambo in history to be converted to an Autotragic. IMO it was like neuturing a, dare I say, bull. Poor poor lambo.

you better slap your dad upside his head with a manual tranny and knock some sense into him!

my grandpa drove a stick all the way up until he stopped driving last year. he's 84 by the way. nevermind the fact he burned out the clutch in about 1 year...

[JaK FRoSTWhiTE]

Well I'm sure you all are familiar with the Kobe Lambo that he gave to his wife. First Lambo in history to be converted to an Autotragic. IMO it was like neuturing a, dare I say, bull. Poor poor lambo.

you better slap your dad upside his head with a manual tranny and knock some sense into him!

my grandpa drove a stick all the way up until he stopped driving last year. he's 84 by the way. nevermind the fact he burned out the clutch in about 1 year...

lol thanks for the story Accordme93.

And thanks to everyone else with their good inputs.

I guess it was just a "What if?"

But yeah, i dont think we'll be doing that anytime soon.
Custom wiring = teh lose!1!!

[accord91lx]

one thing i've read so far i've disagreed with. The dash/cluster wiring. They are the same between auto/manual. I swapped the gray dash from my totalled auto, to my manual with no wire difference issues. Thought i'd clear that up.

[Dirty Harry]

one thing i've read so far i've disagreed with. The dash/cluster wiring. They are the same between auto/manual. I swapped the gray dash from my totalled auto, to my manual with no wire difference issues. Thought i'd clear that up.

...with the exception of the cluster-mounted automatic gear selector indicator.

[uncle_el]

one thing i've read so far i've disagreed with. The dash/cluster wiring. They are the same between auto/manual. I swapped the gray dash from my totalled auto, to my manual with no wire difference issues. Thought i'd clear that up.

...with the exception of the cluster-mounted automatic gear selector indicator.

... thus being different.

[wrichards2005]

I got an auto... I'll trade ya

[cp[mike]]

dash harness, meaning the harness that ties through all the inner dash, the heater core/blower, the shifter assembly, etc, not necessarily the harness thats clipped into the back of the actual dashboard. exact differences i DONT know, but i DO know that a lot of dash/shifter rewiring will have to be done.

[accord91lx]

... thus being different.

when i swapped the dash, I used the previous 5spd cluster... plugged into the Auto's wiring with no issues.... thats what I was getting at......

EDIT: and they were both NS clusters before anyone mentions the differences between NS and denso