auto to manual swap?

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    How hard is it in say, a subaru impreza wagon? I'm a honda person and know jack about subaru's at this point. I want to buy an old automatic impreza wagon and swap in a JDM sti motor and tranny... is that doable? Anyone on here ever done it?
     
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    A member just did this a few months ago. its moderately hard. i beleive it was 95imprezal
     
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    did he do a writeup?
     
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    oh, and thats also not a valid user.
     
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    95lwrx did one not to long ago. from what i heard it was pretty easy. just alot of time put into it.
     
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    I thought he went from a auto to a 5 spd not a 5spd to an auto
     
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    thats what i want to do.
     
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    he did, and that is what s1ngletracker also wants to do.

    Russ
     
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    He told me that he got an entire front clip including some other key bits. Im sure he wouldn't mind telling you what he got I just remember it had a couple of rather hard to find bits when he bought the front clip to do the swap.
     
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    yeah that was me,it is a pretty easy job on the older cars GC bodystyle(mine is a 95) i kept mine simple and put in a cable clutch setup, if you do the hydraulic clutch it takes a bit more work, some drilling may be required for mounting the pedals, on a cable setup the clutch pedal mounts right where the auto brake pedal goes. other than that you need a different tranny crossmember, i custom made mine but you can buy them, they are a H design for the older cars. and you will need diff axles, driveshaft and rear diff.

    any more quetions feel free to ask.
     
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    I must fo misread the subject, my bad