T Bucket Transmisson conversion

[coloradotbucket]

My T bucket is currently a C4 automatic. I am thinking of changing it over to a T5 manual from a Fox Body Mustang. It looks as though there would be limited room for a clutch fork/cable, and possibly a clutch pedal.

Does anybody any insights on this conversion. I know most T buckets I see are automatics, is there a reason for this ? The assumption is that my car is a Total Performance T bucket kit.

 

[GT63]

My T bucket is currently a C4 automatic. I am thinking of changing it over to a T5 manual from a Fox Body Mustang. It looks as though there would be limited room for a clutch fork/cable, and possibly a clutch pedal.

Does anybody any insights on this conversion. I know most T buckets I see are automatics, is there a reason for this ? The assumption is that my car is a Total Performance T bucket kit.

The reason most T-buckets are automatics is because of a lack of space to install a manual. It can be done, but takes some engineering to do. Most used some sort of hydralic throw out bearing and pedal with m/c.

 

[LumenAl]

Here is a video on how a guy put a 4 speed in a spirit car... might give ya some ideas... well done!

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[Martin]

I read somewhere that the reason they were mostly automatics was for the lack of room for a clutch pedal. I was going to start a thread regarding that question because I think I would rather have a stick shift, It just seems like this kind of car should have one. I was thinking about stretching and probably widening the body in the front in order to make the leg room. It'll be interesting to see how yours works out.

 

[Brucer]

ive seen clutch pedals ran straight off the clutch fork also..

 

[donsrods]

I have a stick setup in my '27, it is a Ford Toploader and the frame is a Model A, so there is some room for three pedals. When I started building my '23 I actually mocked up a stick tranny, but gave up after a while because there is just no room in there to do it. My '23 is very low, so the transmission takes up a lot of the space in the cockpit. Maybe on a car that sits higher there would be room, I know guys like Grabowski and Ivo ran stick shifts in theirs.

However, I am glad I put the automatic in it anyways. In my '27 things happened so quick when I got on it that it was tough to concentrate on shifting too. With an automatic you punch it and hold on while the transmission does it's own thing.

Here is a picture of my '27 with the stick to give you some idea of what space it takes up. The next two pictures are when I was trying to get the stick to fit in my '23. You can see how tight it is.

Don

 

[donsrods]

Here is how it ended up with the automatic. You can see there is almost no room for the brake pedal.

Don

 

[Bill Pedersen]

I'm not sure who's car this is, but it is a nice piece. The pictures came from the Internet.