Hello all, i'm new to the board. I recently purchased an '02 WRX Wagon. I recieved it at a very good deal, unforunately it has the 4eat. Since this car will eventually be raced(rallyx and stage rally) i would like to convert the car to the 5mt.

 

I checked the archives and several people have switched older cars to the modern 5's, but i didn't see any threads about newer cars having the switch.

 

The mechanicals are straight forward, what about the the electrics?

 

Are the 4eat and 5mt plug and play? If not what systems do i need to be thinking about for the conversion to work.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

DAn

i am not sure on this but it seems logical, find out what pin-out on your ecu is the one for the AT or MT, and cut the wire or remove the pin-out entirely, since the ecu has like 37 wires coming in from the TCU i would thin oyu should ditch those as well.......just a thought.

 

 

 

 

~Josh~

www.surrealmirage.com/subaru/swap

 

to be quite honest, on that new of a car, I'd just find one that's a manual transmission. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches and time.

 

The newer (OBD2) cars bring a lot more wiring into the equation, which can present more problems to overcome.