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At some point there will be a garage thread on this when I get to the actual install, but for now, its a thread ABOUT what we know about this trans and what I'm learning about it firsthand. There have been threads about this before, but now I'm starting this one because I actually OWN one now.
Things I've noticed about mine today.
1. It is BIG. But I did some light measuring in the yard between it and a festiva, and I think it will be able to fit, very snuggly.
2. It is not vacuum modulated like the Festiva. But the only wires coming and going are for the kickdown solenoid, park/neutral safety switch, reverse switch, and the overdrive lockout solenoid. So its NOT electronic. There is a "throttle cable" that looks kind of like a kickdown cable on the old chevys.
3. The front and rear mounts look identical to the festiva.
4. I think the brake MC will have to come out to drop the engine/trans combo in. No chance of installing them seperately.
So fire away, anything else anyone KNOWs about this trans? Gear ratios I'd love to see! But any actual info or sources for info (not speculations!) I wanna know!
Things I've noticed about mine today.
1. It is BIG. But I did some light measuring in the yard between it and a festiva, and I think it will be able to fit, very snuggly.
2. It is not vacuum modulated like the Festiva. But the only wires coming and going are for the kickdown solenoid, park/neutral safety switch, reverse switch, and the overdrive lockout solenoid. So its NOT electronic. There is a "throttle cable" that looks kind of like a kickdown cable on the old chevys.
3. The front and rear mounts look identical to the festiva.
4. I think the brake MC will have to come out to drop the engine/trans combo in. No chance of installing them seperately.
So fire away, anything else anyone KNOWs about this trans? Gear ratios I'd love to see! But any actual info or sources for info (not speculations!) I wanna know!
Just lucked up on this one at my favorite pull a part yard. Actually Kev (AV8TER on here) told me about it few weeks ago, but he and I were mainly thinking about the motor and not the trans, since neither of us had even noticed it was an OD at the time. Only 158K on the unit, and wrecked a little on the drivers side, not bad, but bad enough that insurance would have totalled it, which I'm guessing is what happened. So he took the hood latch cable off and hid it up under the dash for me so noone would go snooping under the hood. I went down once, but was in the wrong car (MX6) for picking up a whole motor and trans, so I had to leave it. Went back for it yesterday and to my amazement the only things missing from it were the water neck (will be using the festy one anyway), the dizzy (I have spares) and the PCV (would be getting replaced anyway). So I pulled them and stuffed them in the back of green car. So it would be a G4A-HL, right Arty? As opposed to the G4A-EL that was in the later cars?
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