manual swap, whos done one? few questions

[T5frankie]

Wow, thats fantastic. With me running on LPG, that'd make it roughly a 55-60mpg equivalent car Def worth factoring into the cost of a conversion!

makes me undecided whether to keep it or not but 4 cars at the minute

[no1tosh]

lol 4 bladdy, greedy sod!, although i would say keep it.

just realised if i had got this few months before i could had bought that conversion from you and i could have kept the beach suround for the gear stick

[no1tosh]

theres a guy on ebay who sells complete conversions for £400 plus £60 for the pallet.
does this sound like a good price?

[Jamest5r]

theres a guy on ebay who sells complete conversions for £400 plus £60 for the pallet.
does this sound like a good price?

Depends what box lol, plus if you have the space break a car weigh it in probably only cost you 150 quid

[t5 pete]

Yep the best option is buy another t5 they can be had pretty cheep and if your wise it "should" end up costing nothing to do the conversion once other bits have sold of the donor car and then weighed in

[RollingThunder]

Thats my thinking Pete - you can be sure you have all the bits then as well - that 'kit' may not have every bracket, bit of wire etc that is needed.

[no1tosh]

i totally agree, the only problem i have is i have no where to keep and break a second car .

uuummmm i have a deilema lol

[fitzy]

Have a m56 box in my shed,left over from my manual conversion, used a m59 in the end
M56 was part of the complete kit I purchased from forum member, have now sold the car
If you can use it you can have it for free just need to arrange to collect it , let me know.

[stribo]

makes me undecided whether to keep it or not but 4 cars at the minute

We've got 6

[no1tosh]

You greedy greedy bugger lol, ill let you know pal thank you for the offee

[Ettienne]

We've got 6

I've only got 5 at the minute. (4 Volvos)

[oblark]

Had you thought about a 6 speed conversion ???

The M66 box is a lot stronger than the M56.

[no1tosh]

I have mate ya but I just havnt got the cash im olny lookin at spending £350 plus clutch and odds and ends.

[Theador]

Quick question, when you do a manual conversion, does the cruise control still work?

Shem's going to be converting my 850r to manual in the next few weeks, using my T5 as a donor. A job that's way beyond me in terms of time and skill.

[Ettienne]

Quick question, when you do a manual conversion, does the cruise control still work?

Shem's going to be converting my 850r to manual in the next few weeks, using my T5 as a donor. A job that's way beyond me in terms of time and skill.

Short answer no, but can be made to work

[darzmat]

Just a quick question whilst on the subject.

What clutch and flywheel would I use on my 1998 v70R if fitting an m56 from my 1995 t5

[Theador]

Cheers, I do like the cruise control option.

Short answer no, but can be made to work

[Nealevo]

Quick question, when you do a manual conversion, does the cruise control still work?

Shem's going to be converting my 850r to manual in the next few weeks, using my T5 as a donor. A job that's way beyond me in terms of time and skill.

Mine still works but you need all the vac hoses from the donor car.

[Theador]

Ok cool. Problem is my donor car doesn't have cruise control.

Anyway sorry for the hijack; kind of relevant at least

Mine still works but you need all the vac hoses from the donor car.

[no1tosh]

its all good pal, it very relevent. i find it funny how this seems to be a very popular thing to do but not all that much info on it.

if you do a search on google there's a walk through thread on volvo forums i think and the guy doing it is using cruise control and talks about linkning it up

in fact here you go, and the second on from volvo speed and a few links to parts lists, wiring ect....

http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=71697

http://volvospeed.com/vs_forum/topic...a-manual-swap/

hope this helps