Originally Posted by MrWankler

Well, I realize it is a timely project. The only reason I even considered the project is this... My home town flooded about 2 months ago and the rx8 that I bought was a repo at my local bank. Once the car was flooded it was sent to someone to undertake the project of fixing it and getting it back to a running state. Well there was some contraversy over the car and the bank recieved the car back. So I bought it for $1000. The body has a few dings and such but over all is in decent condition. So I took the car in and changed all fluids in the car, cleaned all electrical connectors, drained the gas tank, flushed the auto. tranny, and got the car running. Well after I got the car running stuff started to quite working... It was as if the ecu was loosing sectors... or mabe the body control moduel was going bad. Soooo I got on the internet and found a local wrecking yard that had what was supposed to be a automatic car... upon arriving I realized that it was a 6 speed car, so without realizing the difference in engines I got a price on buying the car that was totaled out. I gave 1500 dollars after doing research on all differences for the car. So I have a total of 2500 plus the money to flush the fluids in the first car, in both cars conbined. As of rite now I have the full body wiring harness changed out, I changed out the underhood harness, Im working on door harnesses ATM, I installed the clutch pedal and master cylinder, changed the brake master cylinder, changed all ABS/trac controll modual/wiring and redid all the brake lines leading to the abs modual. The parts car came with a AEM cold air intake and greddy gp2 exhaust which is around 1000 dollars in upgrades for free. I would have had to bought all my radio gear had I decided to leave it a automatic. So with me wanting a project and wanting a 6 speed car it was a no brainer for the money. I have changed the ECU and the gauge cluster and should have the interior back in tomorrowish. But my delima is that the 6 speed car has 75lbs of compression which from my manuel it says it should have a minimal 98lbs and perfect would be 120. But yea I was basically just wanting to swap my engine harness and drop the 6 speed in the car so that I could drive it a little while I get the 6 port finished... I mean im not hard up for a vehicle I have a 2004 slk230 mercedes... butttttt Im starting college soon and dont want to leave the benz in the parking lot hahaha... but yea thats why I am doing the conversion, had it not been for the money that im saving then I would have NEVER considered the swap haha

Originally Posted by Mawnee

I would just stick with the automatic, its alot les work. With the Manuel you are going to have to feed it and take care of it. And it could just jump the fence and run away.