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Originally Posted by tjts1
We're talking about manuals, not automatic. There is nothing to control the manual except your left foot and right hand. Any of the above listed will bolt up.
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yeah, but I think he's saying that the absence of the automatic tranny in the car built with the automatic tranny will create a hole in the interwoven ECU system on the recipient car.
In other words, the manual tranny will certainly work, but there might be some issues with MIL lights, or even perhaps some drivability issues if the ECM is looking for calculation data from a tranny that is no longer there.
Lets say hypothetically the ECM was doing something with throttle position based on transmission output shaft RPM compared to crank RPM. If it lost the second part of that equation from the transmission, it might go into some kind of limp mode for pedal control on the assumption that the output shaft was not turning or something to protect the engine or transmission based on its original programming. Who knows
It would be something to keep in the back of the mind in case there were later issues
Probably just be a matter of figuring out how to fool the TCM maybe? or finding out what european manual versions do for the same situation. It would be interesting to see what if any problems would take place.