New member from Brisbane

[andrew-h]

Hey Guys,

Been reading through the forums for a few weeks now, but only just now making an intro. How rude of me.

My car at the moment is a modest 06' Lancer w/ 2.4L 4g69. Doesn't seem to be a tuner favourite, but I bought the car a few months ago during hard times, and it was in such good nic mechanically and such a good price. I love the car to bits, despite the horrible auto tranny inside of it. (for which I am in the planning stages of treating it to a way more fun 5sp manual).

My plans for it are a big vague at the moment. Most importantly it's a daily driver, and I'm not the kind of guy who's all about kilowatts, so performance wise it won't recieve a great deal of treatment, but I do like a car that feels like it's on rails, so some nice tyres and maybe wheels, plus some coilovers and some minor brake upgrades are definitely going to happen.

I'm fairly mechanically savvy having been fixing and working on my own cars for several years now, but this is to be the first time I ever really do anything on a car in the way of upgrades/modifications. In some ways it's going to be a learn-as-I-go project, and asside from my plans for the car mechanically I'd like to do a few more things to it in future that I've never done before like respraying it, window tint and some other aesthetic stuff.

So that's enough about me and the car. As I said, currently planning and acquring parts for the trans conversion. I've swapped an auto trans once, but never done a conversion, so I want to be absolutely sure that I've got what I need before taking it on. Will update you guys when finished!

Andrew

 

[4piknup]

Gday andrew. I think the g69 is a good engine. Plenty of cubes to start with, also mivec i think.
imo, id keep my eyes out for a manual version of same car and buy it and sell yours. If its less than $1k change over, id say its worth it rather than fluffing around with changing it all over.
as a small example- i changed a auto tn magna to manual (and added efi and cruise and elite interior). Right up the top near the windscreen, on the firewall, inside the car, was a clutch pedal frame mount. It is welded onto firewall before painting on manual cars and its not there on auto cars. To put this mount in requires the dash stripped out down to a bare firewall and the insulation removed inside engine bay (master cylinder/booster removed and wiring as well) its a huge job for just that mount. Rediculous!

Anyway, if you are insisting to do conversion on your car, i suggest you buy a whole smashed car and swap all you need to it. That way, you have all the bits required for the job and all infront of you.

welcome

 

[4piknup]

Your auto has invecs2 brains running the gearbox. It should learn your driv8ng style and shift accordingly. May be it needs a reset (i dunno how to do that)

Also, if selling, the auto was a $2500 option when new. That means you should be able to straight swap your car for a manual. Just be aware, some of that year lancer had a 2.0 still.

 

[Benzo4gT]

Hello and welcome Andrew

There's plenty of people with good info in here so you're in the right spot mate :thumbsup: