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Daniel P.
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August 8, 2018 at 10:17 am #3813
This shouldnt cost more then $1200-$1500 in parts or less and depending on if you do it yourselves or have a mechanic do it.
Items needed :
Manual transmission 5 speed \ 6 speed
Floor gear shifter m\t
Both Front driver \ passenger axles
Clutch plate flywheel kit
Clutch master cylinder
Manual transmission mounts
Shift cables for m\t
Shift cable bracket
Clutch pedal
Wire harness for m\t car
Clutch line
Flywheel bolts ….. Not included in clutch kit
Brake reservoir
tune Ecu \ or buy Ecu for manual vehicle
Transmission —————————————————————-
Look for anything under 100k miles
Lkq USA \ Canada are great companies which offer transmission at great prices
2.4 \ 2.0 engines are the same so same transmission
2009 , 2010 , 2011 same car (FWD)
2012-present same car (AWD)
Pay attention to transmission: SST is not manual CVT is not manual.
Transmission oil
Floor Gear Shifter ——————————————————————-
5 speed \ 6 speed M\t are the same shifter
It could be off a evo or raillart or base lancer , which must likely would be a DE lancer \ GTS lancer
GTS are 2008- 2011 \ GT are 2012-up (IDK)
Ebay is the way to find them
Axles Shafts ——————————————————————————
Since the transmission is being changed so will the axles
Must buy for manual transmission NO CVT
Axles don’t matter on 5 speed or 6 speed
It could be purchase from PartsGeek they manufacture some of their axles so you buying brand new ones
Clutch kit \ flywheel ————————————————————————
Many brands out there for clutch and different stages
Clutch kits go from 2008-2010 \ 2011 – up
2.0 same as 2.4
Full kits sold on eBay with everything you need
Make sure it has the clutch slave cylinder
On the Mitsubishi lancer : clutch salve cylinder is located in the transmission housing so don’t go of buying the usual clutch slave cylinder thinking it will fit your car.
There is a way to do an external slave cylinder but hasn’t been done for the lancers yet from what I know ….. Ill try it out in the future
Stage 1 through 4 ( MAX ) are performance scale level
Now for flywheel there’s a company called LuK Corp. great company , they have fro 08-14. DO NOT BUY EVO FLYWHEEL ! It wider then the regular lancer ones. If you do must buy longer flywheel bolts to make it fit correctly
Clutch master cylinder —————————————————————-
Not your usual brake master cylinder
It will be a plastic tube unlike the regular metal assembly one
Evo \ Base lancer are the same
Will need you clutch line connected to it can use off a evo
Ebay has Sabana selling them for 2008-2015
The ball point end goes connected directly to the clutch pedal
Transmission mounts ————————————————————————–
Now this is the tricky part . I never found the correct mounts
Evo mounts are not the same as the base M\t mounts
Nor do the stock cvt or automatic mounts work
What I did is bought evo ones and welded it to the transmission and did certain amount of bents to make it fit correctly
New bolts will also have to be bought depending on the way you go with
There are three mounts front lower transmission \ right hand facing vehicle \ rear lower mount connected to the Sub frame
This is a very hard task , must need a good welder to go ahead with this project .
shifts cables m\t ……………..bracket ——————————————————
Shift cables for manual transmission are two cables
Not sure if evo \ raillart \ base lancer share shift cables but I went with base lancer and was fine.
Only company as I know has them is by Mitsubishi directly from Texas factory as found in eBay
Don’t go cheap and buy used ones these go bad often …. Just buy from Mitsubishi
Shift cable bracket are a pain in the ><><><><><
If you don’t get the bracket with the transmission which is almost impossible from LKQ you will have to retrofit with evo ones
I have not found any company online that sell the correct bracket
Just incase you wonder what it is , it is a bracket with two U like inserts for the shift cables to hold on before it connects with the transmission
Will need the clips to hold them in place also which are extremely cheap ( or use zip ties like someone I know )
If you go with the Evo one you will need to cut 1/4 portion of the bracket to make it fit correctly with the transmission
Clutch pedal ——————————————————————————-
Simple and easy , any clutch pedal will work ! Just make sure its for a lancer
On the lancer even if it’s an automatic , they have a cut out design on the car frame to installed the clutch pedal
Two way to go about this set up you can also purchase the brake pedal that came of a manual \ Reason why: a\t and m\t have different size brake pedals
For example a\t have a wider brake pedal then a m\t one reason idkkkkkk
Or you can use the stock brake pedal just tighter when switching from the clutch to the brake when stepping on it
Now when you see the cut out under the dash for the clutch assembly you will notice two mounts that has threads for a nut to screw on
These two mounts with threads are for some reason not distance correctly
There’s two things you can go by this you can cut of one of the mounts and reinstall it by welding it on the frame in the correct position
Or bolt it on as is and will notice the clutch being a little slanted towards the brake pedal
Engine Wire Harness ————————————————————————–
You do not need it if your good at reading charts and wiring new lines with connectors
if you don’t buy you will need the following : two wires that go to the clutch pedal to the safety switch on the transmission and one for the reverse connector 4guage wire works fine
If you do buy the harness which is better make sure it’s the full harness now you wont have to take if off but just take off certain things from it to install it in the stock harness
There’s going to be 3 set placements for the harness : 1- headlights to the front connectors of the car 2- engine connectors 3- firewall connectors which is what you need
Literally everything is the same on all harness besides the firewall one
Cvt harness \ sst harness \ automatic harness all have a extra 4th wire that goes to the transmission the m\t doesn’t
The clutch wires will be located in red and white on the firewall section
The reverse wires will be located on the transmission harness of the stock ones cvt or sst or a\t which you can located by having the car in automatic and locating the connector with a voltage machine thingy maggie …..
Once located the wires follow it to the fuse box and splice the came so you can place a new wire to the new connector to go on the transmission which is located on the rear left hand side of the transmission
Its three cables your connecting the connector is found on the engine section of the hardness and its white green black
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This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by
Kevin rojas.
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This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by
Kevin Brown.
May 21, 2021 at 10:03 pm #44348Ok it is superhard to find a shifter cable bracket can’t even find one from an evo what should i do?
November 12, 2021 at 9:19 am #46628It was a pain to find this. Use megazip. I’ve ordered many parts from there including the shift cable bracket. It was on backorder and I had to wait like a month to get it. Part number is 23901. Make sure you order the clips and some of the bolts to mount it.
March 24, 2022 at 10:52 pm #47605Hi, so Im doing the swap, I have everything bolted on, but my question is more on the ecu, my lancer is a 16, can I just plug and play an older ecu but manual, will maf and sensors work the same? Any info will help.
September 25, 2023 at 4:31 pm #53396Hi, so Im doing the swap, I have everything bolted on, but my question is more on the ecu, my lancer is a 16, can I just plug and play an older ecu but manual, will maf and sensors work the same? Any info will help.
Hi, Did you ever figure this out, does the ecu need to be reprogrammed or can the donor ecu just be swapped in?
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