Just done the 6 speed conversion into my estate again! 

 

Different car, as I stupidly sold the last one in a time of weakness! :( 

 

at least it was a lot easier this time, despite me forgetting to remove some important parts that were needed from the VRS I took the gearbox from. Ended up costing more because I had to buy those parts new from TPS. 

 

Its well worth the change,  so anyone thinking of putting a VRS gearbox in their Fabia, these are the things you will need; (I may have done a list before) 

 

-Gearbox 

-gear cables and tower 

-starter motor and bolts 

-drive shafts and all bolts 

-Bell housing bolts 

-Flywheel bolts 

-pressure plate bolts (they look the same but -the 6sp clutch uses smaller ones)

-clutch kit for 6sp

-Concentric slave cylinder 

-clutch pipe (from master cylinder to slave) 

-dog bone mount 

-VRS Speedo (the Vrs takes its speed from the wheels, where as the 5 speed box takes its speed from the plug on the gearbox) 

 

And then swap all those bits  

 

 

Thanks for that quick list do you know which is the best gearbox code to go for ?

Does the clutch bolt into different holes or do you need a flywheel aswell ?

Is there anyway of re-coding the speedo instead of a new one ?

47 minutes ago, garethw said:

Thanks for that quick list do you know which is the best gearbox code to go for ?

Does the clutch bolt into different holes or do you need a flywheel aswell ?

Is there anyway of re-coding the speedo instead of a new one ?

 

You will need the flywheel too from a 6speed box. DMF flywheel  the 5 speed boxes are single mass as standard. 

 

No way of re coding the Speedo as far as I am aware, much easier to just fit the VRS Speedo, I did so and just mapped out my immo