[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

No foundation I suppose, my pickup has the KA24E (lol singlecam with more torque than the Toyobaru) and I can't imagine having any fun with a slushbox from that era in it but it's a hoot with the manual sliding around dirt roads and wet pavement. I don't think I ever would have found out that yes, they did have fuel cutoff at redline in the 80's.



I suppose situationally it'd be good to pick up up an Auto for cheap and do the swap when you put a better engine in (seems to be mandatory ) but there seems to be enough manuals to go around, spend the extra bucks and save the hassle imo.

Side note: glad you chimed in, probably the best resource on here for this question aside from a few vendors.

Oh I was assuming a swap would be done anyways. KA-T works also but almost everyone does the SR swap.. or LSX these days. I haven't driven an LSX one, I wonder how balanced they are.


In this case, this 240 was in great shape, low mileage and a 1 owner car. It went for less than far more beat up manuals so it was a solid buy especially given that it had the LSD and no sunroof. Swap just involves some wiring, driveshaft and cutting a hole for the clutch master cylinder and clutch pedal assembly and once you are doing the rest of the swap work it's not a terrible amount of additional effort.


I agree in general though, if you find a great 5MT car or don't really care about finding a really nice example, then get a manual one and save the extra hassle.