Ihave a 1998 gs-t spyder 5 spd. That car is my baby, and ive been slowly moding it. Just one little problem! Its in getting a new paint job right now and Im not getting it back for another week and a half due to the immaculate paint job im getting. I realized that it would probably be easier to find another car as a daily driver so I can finish my spyder. I love my mitsubishi's and I love the 4g63 engine. Today I went around browsing for something that will fit what im looking for and I think I found it. Its a 1995 gs-t hardtop.its only got 89000 miles on it (which if u ask me is really good for that year. Its in pretty good condition, but the guy at the lot said that they believe the tranny is starting to go out. Its an automatic, which I personally HATE with a passion. The last owner only knew how to take care of the motor work and never checked his tranny fluid or anything like that and I guess noone ever told him anything about the tranny (hes an idiot if u ask me). I took it for a drive today and the tranny didnt seem TOOOO bad. Now for the questions. What models can I take a tranny out of? Would the tranny out of a gs or an rs work? Also, one of my buddies has a 95 talon esi that he uses for parts for his spyder. Would I be able to take the tranny out of that to put in mine? Also, what all would i have to do to convert it to a manual? Ive never done any conversions like that, so this would deffinately be a first!

 

first off, if this is just goin to be your daily driver, then why not get a cheap beater that'll get you from point a to point b?? and as far and converting to a manual tans, dont bother... its a lot of work to get the clutch pedal and wiring and fab and blah blah blah, not worth, ESPECIALLY for a daily driver... i say buy a cheap car to get you from here to there and save your money for the car thats in the shop

 

i agree. how much do they want for a talon w/ a trani going out? i wouldn't pay a dime over 1500 for something w/ a bad tranni. converting it over to a manual will cost you the price of buying a manual TSI or tubo'd clipse. for a daily driver i'd find a cheap @$$ honda or something to ride around in that just gets u form origin to destination. i'm getting a 90 GSX for 1700 bucks w/ a 20g turbo swap on it... just one of those lucky breaks.