Originally Posted by
Lord Twaddle
I too am curious about this modification, I wouldn’t mind trying it.
I am aware people will say “just buy an SRT6” however that is a lot easier said than done in the UK where they only sold 150 units plus I want to swap my 03 Sapphire Silver Coupe automatic for a Blaze Red Roadster with the 6 speed manual.
They never made a red manual SRT6 so specifically for my desires it would probably be most cost effective to supercharge the engine in a stock red manual than to convert an existing SRT6 to manual and have it painted red.
If the issue is availability then you may need to import wrecked unit or at least all the components. The handing of the donor car should not matter
What you CAN NOT DO is to attach a manual gearbox to a SC engine. If you do a search, you’ll find lots of inquiries about this.
I did the swap and I collected all of the parts from 7 wrecks. It would have been cheaper to just buy one complete. When sourcing parts/components it was like buying two cars. Buying one complete donor with have been the easiest/fastest with respect to plug and play. Buy one with a bad back end. The front end is the most critical with respect to power plant and electronics then locate the Rear pumpkin And driveshafts from another
There is a complete car on Cars.com for 8k USD
The component parts for your conversion will easily cost that much
If you can put this together with components, awesome but it’s going to be a large shipping container with parts.
Looking forward to seeing how it goes
If you can dream it, you can do it. It will just take time and money