Big noob tryna e to de swap

[drft204]

hey i bought an 89 240sx coupe shell which was stripped and i bought some stuff for it but i don't know how to put it all together lmfao... uhh well i have alot to learn so yeah i'm a big noob. i jus wanna know if theres anything that doesn't look right.and where would i find ground wires for it

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Modified by drft204 at 8:11 PM 7/28/2008

[240sxvaj]

this isnt exacty what your looking for but then its w/e LOL!

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[drft204]

oh it is actually what i want to see tho... lol thanks.

[liquid_cool]

was the engine rebuilt recently before ya slap it in?...its nice to have that friend that says "hay its a good engine" only to shaft ya 3 months later when your pullin it back out.

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[drft204]

no the engine wasn't rebuilt but it was sitting on a stand for a while and i was gonna take it apart but he told me not to he said to leave it the way it is

[Rev_D21]

The first unknown pic is of a Neutral Safety Switch. The second appears to be a Crank Poistion Sensor.

[drft204]

oh haha where do i put them? lmfaoi was looking at this guy's harness and it doesn't look like he has those two things zer...04793

[240sxvaj]

oh it is actually what i want to see tho... lol thanks.

wheeeeeeeew!

[liquid_cool]

no the engine wasn't rebuilt but it was sitting on a stand for a while and i was gonna take it apart but he told me not to he said to leave it the way it is

id have a good shop look at it..just becouse the engine is on a stand..dosent mean its any good...good luck

[drft204]

okay i tried to start the car up today but nothing happened...i thought maybe my wiring was messed but then i asked my friend and he showed me this because my car used to be automatic.imma try this tomorrow

Ok, so you have your convertible sitting in the driveway, but you feel that the slush box is just plain boring. I've seen a lot of people on the boards looking for how to do S13 auto-> manual swaps. Now it's time for the definitive swap how to...with the convertible flair.

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Now, to make your reverse lights work, your top work, and to get the car to start.

Find the passenger side fuse box. If you look at it, it will have 4 plugs hanging off of it. 3 large plugs, and a small 2 wire plug (it's not visible in the picture except by the two wires connected by the yellow splice).



The small 2 wire plug is the park neutral switch. To make the car start, you'll have to jumper those. The easiest way is to canibalize the plug off the AT transmission harness. Then you can just connect the two wires together with a splice and plug it back into the chassis plug.

Next is to make your park and reverse lights work. With pictures!

The middle plug of the three larger plugs is called the inhibitor switch plug.

(Back of the inhibitor plug)

The way the wiring of this plug works is like so: the green/blue wire is a constant voltage wire, and all the other wires run to gear sensors (park, neutral, reverse, 1st, etc).

Wire colors needed for operation:Green/blue to complete the circuitBrown/yellow for parkGreen/white for reverse



If you look at how I've done my wiring, I have directly connected the brown/yellow and green/blue wires. This causes the car to believe it's in Park at all times, allowing the top to function. Then I spliced wiring into the green/blue line (that is what the blue box is for. It allows a wire to tap into another wire without having to cut it or solder it). The new wire was ran to one of the reverse plug wires. Then I ran a wire from the green/white wire. These wires were ran to the reverse sensor. When the shifter is put in reverse, the sensor will complete the circuit and turn the reverse lights on.

Here's a crappy wiring diagram I drew in MS Paint. You can see that the wires for the Green/Blue and Green/White wires are lengthened to reach the reverse switch, and the Brown/Yellow wire is directly connected to the Green/Blue wire.

The reverse sensor is the one closest to the bellhousing conveniently labelled "reverse lamp switch":

Viola. Now fill up the transmission with some gear oil, fill and bleed the clutch line, and if you disconnected the brake lines to work the brake booster around, fill and bleed the brake MC.

If the O/D light blinking starts to drive you nuts, just unplug it. The light blinks because it can't detect the overdrive unit anymore and the blinking is an error code. Disabling the light won't hurt your car at all.

EDIT: I realized that the Shift Lock Control Unit is a vital part to getting your key out. The guide has been edited to include it. Sorry for any confusion

Modified by drft204 at 11:05 PM 7/31/2008