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Old Aug 27, 2008 | 01:36 PM
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What are the differences in these 2 years? Basically I'm looking into swapping transmissions with a guy who has a 99 auto and mine is a 98 6 speed.
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Old Aug 27, 2008 | 02:08 PM
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Totally different beasts. To swap from your 1998 to a 1999 you will need the harness, gauge cluster and fuel level sender (IIRC). The pinout from the PCM have different locations. If you only swap transmission, it will be a direct bolt in.
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So no need to swap pcms then? Can my tuner just delete the 6 speed and make it auto? Thanks.
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If you just swap trans setups, you can keep your 98 computer but you will need to find an auto harness from a 98 car to control the transmission.
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The computer swap can be done.

It requires changing all 160 wires on the PCM connectors, and some creative tuning with EFI Live but no other parts need to be changed.

For your situation, this does not seem necessary. You can swap the Transmission and Harness and have your tuner re-program the PCM for the automatic.
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You can also just depin the trans portion of each harness and swap that between the cars. Label the wires as you remove them and use a diagram to know what spot to put them in the other PCM. Then, just reflash the PCM for the correct trans and you are set.

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