nbailey
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Okay, so now that I've had my '89 B2200 for 3 years and it finally had a major issue, I'm buying a new(er) car and finally going to start modding the truck. My biggest problem is that if I'm going to drop a V8 into it, I don't want an automatic transmission. Since the gear shift for the automatic is already in the center, how much trouble would it really be to swap and convert to a manual transmission?
I found the article about a 5L Mustang V8 where it said to use the transmission from the Mustang also which would be great and it didn't look like there was much need for banging or cutting into the firewall either.
What is involved with the conversion? It looks like there's already a mount for the clutch pedal, but I'm not very mechanically inclined (I have a few friends that have been waiting for me to let them dig into the truck) so the rest of the details are all blurry to me.
Thanks ahead of time.