Dragoontwo's 6mt swap

[dragoontwo]

I have a few parts already, just waiting for a pallet with the rest of the goods.

Have:
WRX Brake booster
WRX Pedal box
Master Cylinder
DCCD Switches

The pallet has almost everything else needed for the swap.

I'm going to be using the stock differential.

As for the dash, I'm going to be using the DCCDPro controller with the STI dash output. I have taken the piece for the gear indicator out, took the letters off, and had a sign shop make a vinyl overlay with pulled out letters and numbers. I made a mistake and forgot to take the front piece of the cluster in, so I'm going to take it back and have it redone. This is where I'd kind of like some opinions. Leave the words as is, or all caps? When I picked it up, they gave me a sheet with 8 more on it. So after the final printing I'll have a few left over for anybody who may want one. I'm also going to wire the output to swap the light from auto on the indicator to the MANU. light in the cluster when the switch is put into manual mode. From the bottom its going to be lit with: 3x green, 2x amber, 2x red. Not sure if I want to leave the backside clear and use colored leds, or use the colored gel sheet with white leds.




Old Tom, I'll let you know when I'm ready for you to make me a crossmember.

Icingdeath, could you get me those pics of the underside of your shifter surround?

I'd like to hear what everybody thinks about the indicator strip, and ideas to make it better before the final product.

[Crazy_pilot]

That's an awesome idea! I had been planning on just filling and painting over that slot when I swap mine. I'd go all caps on the letters, and thinner. Try to get them to match the rest of the dash lettering as close as possible.

[icingdeath88]

Aww crap I forgot to do that today after I saw your post. I'll do it tomorrow, I promise

The gauge cluster thing is an extremely good idea. I wish I had DCCD so I could do that. A passenger pointed that out to me just today actually. I'll figure something out.

[dragoontwo]

I actually got the idea from a guy in Austrailia after a phone call to Jeff from DCCDPro. I pointed him in the direction of the forums, and hopefully he'll pop in here. The biggest problem I think I'm going to face here will be illumination. The black background isn't enough. I think I'll see if I can pick up some scraps of tint from a local shop. I also have some of the blue stage gel, and I'll play around with the 2 and see what I can come up with.

[Shamus McFeeley]

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[Geoff]

Is Tom still making cross members? I've got a need.

[dragoontwo]

Originally Posted by Shamus McFeeley

I think you should hurry up so we can put that other 5 speed in my car.

Well we had a brake and garage party last night.... Your bike, mine, and the tags are snuggling with the Frontier.

[SoobCrazy]

Originally Posted by dragoontwo

The biggest problem I think I'm going to face here will be illumination. The black background isn't enough. I think I'll see if I can pick up some scraps of tint from a local shop. I also have some of the blue stage gel, and I'll play around with the 2 and see what I can come up with.

It might be easier to use the remaining seven stickers and lay them one on top of the other. Getting the alignment just right might be tough, but could save on time and fabrication.

[dragoontwo]

Picked up the transmission and parts last night. Been messing around with some tint and the blue stage gel and while it looks decent, I'm still not quite where I would like to be with it. Does anyone here have experience with film opaquing pens? Would it help to prevent the light shining through the black portion?

So, it looks like I'll just change the lettering to all caps on the next batch and make them smaller to fit the space better. I'll ask them if they can make the black darker as well.

I'll wait to see what anyone says while I hoard up the rest of the parts I need, then I'll go forward with getting the final batch of stickers up. I'm also going to get some stage gels in the colors I want to use and do some mock up installs.

I need: crossmember, clutch kit, DCCD controller, shift boot, 5th & 6th gear, seals for the 4eat stub shafts, and shifter bushings.

[icingdeath88]

Here's some pictures for the shifter: https://picasaweb.google.com/icingde...eat=directlink

[SilverSpear]

Dragoon, can you please keep record of the wiring you will be doing to make the DCCD work? Pictures and info would be great, maybe you can do a writeup.

I will be following the same path in the future and I need to know this.

[dragoontwo]

Thanks for the pics. I'll keep track of what I do for the wiring.

[Nemesis Destiny]

That is an awesome idea! If I ever get the DCCD controller installed and working, I am totally going to steal that idea!

I hate having the useless gear indicator on the dash like that - it makes the swap too obvious, but with this, it will look like it was supposed to be there again!

Very nice.

[dragoontwo]

Update time. Got the crossmember from Tom the other day. Tom, I got it in the car just for you the other day. Am I doing it right?

[Shamus McFeeley]

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