6 Speed gearbox in Estate. :)

[gfwc]

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  

 

 

[garethw]

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 ?

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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