Re: why just race a lemon when you can enjoy it every day?
Spinnetti wrote:Manual swap is not bad using a supra trans and a kit from down under..... Not sure how you do the pedals though.. Been thinking about it for my Lemons LS if I can get the cost down enough. Another option is a shift kit (just buttons and wiring mostly) to manually control the shifter... make your own paddles and away you go...
Let me know if you do any more on that front. The bellhousing adapter is the easy part; the pedals and shifter seem like a nightmare. (What are the chances that the shifter will line up with the automatic shifter location?) Especially since this is my daily driver, I'm not too keen on just hacking it up Lemons style and leaving the trans tunnel exposed.
Is there more info on the manual control of the auto available online? I'm not too interested in it since to me it's not that much better than just throwing the auto shifter around, but I'd be interested in finding out how it's done.
-David
Yeah, I thought so too, but in racing, you want to control the shift points. In a modern car, the computer decides not the lever. So on the lex, the wiring intercepts the shift controller so you decide when to shift. Otherwise, you can put the lever wherever you want, but it will still shift when IT thinks it needs to. Another variant of the mod is that the lever controls the shift, and it won't shift unless you move the shifter. I wanted a variant where I could have it run pure auto or only manual shifted.... still haven't decided. Will try it full auto first and see if it works in competition. Didn't work bad on a track day, but a race is a different story....
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