Check out what i just picked up for $1500
 

Rebuilt engine and tranny, smooth and sleek

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1144289618.jpg

$1500? That's a steal, no?

Wow. Smokin deal. A buddy has one and spent more than that refreshing his rear bumper!

Sweet. How many miles on the chassis ?

Aurel

Steal. You could sell parts for way more than that...

Sweet, the 635 csi was my favorite when I was 16. It's still a damn cool car.

Is the other side caved in or something?:p

nope, very clean. 40,000 on rebuild.

Anyone know whats involved in swapping in a manual?

Damnation. He got any more at that price?

rough price? I figure that I should swap a manual in with all the money i've just saved.

Didn't you just get a Datson not long ago? Very nice car BTW - if it was silver it would look like the car in Moonlighting starring Cybil Shepard and Bruce Willis!

yep, the datsun was sold to pay for this.

Has an awesome red/black interior that is nearly perfect as well. Red leather seats with red trim on the black doorpanels. Looks really cool

Yes.

What year?

its an 85

Thats an insane deal. The old 6 series were great looking cars.

it has a few issues, but nothing major

1. the speedo seems to fluctuate and not go past 80MPH, not sure if it's the speedo or the sender. it seems like it's strugging to get up there and the needle just wobbles a few mm in either direction. odometer also does not work, although he does have reciepts from N. Hollywood speedo for a previous fix. anyone have any ideas?

2. It needs a valve adjustment, probably a new O2 sensor as well. Overall it runs strong, but it needs a general tune up

3. new stereo/speakers are a given, while not in bad shape, they do sound old.

4. new accelerator cable, as the old one is stretched pretty bad, and doesnt have much adjustment left in it.

The 5 speed should be the same from the E30, right? As far as the clutch and flywheel, those should be the same as well, right? Id just need to match the pin for the motronic.

I may have a lead on a complete 5 speed from a 325 with linkage

Dang. Were you holding a gun to his head? Did you have "pictures" he didn't want to get out? I'm trying to get to the bottom of this...

Good, that's one that shares many components with an E28, and is much more solid than the earlier ones. There were two years that were better, '88 and '89, but only the engines which had later fuel/ignition management systems.

There's a Sharkfest scheduled next month, you should consider going to it. Even if you can't bring your car, you'll learn alot about it. There's also the Big Coupe Group who have a lot of info.

Doing the manual tranny swap is moderately challenging, but many have done it. It's identical to doing the job on an E28.
The manual transmission swap into an automatic equipped car.


Picture of what you need:
http://www.terrysaytherauto.com/TransConv.htm

The E30 five speed bolts to the M20 engine, not the M30 engine in your sixer. If you want a 3.73 ratio limited slip you can get that from a six cylinder E30, changing to the E28 diff cover and stub axles is all that's required for that.