Ok so I have paid for the following parts, I will be picking them up on Friday.

axels, console, shifter, pedals, shift cables, clutch master cylinder

It took me forever to find a yard that had these parts, I guess 5 speed grand am's/ Alero's are extremely hard to come by?

yes they are!!!...you will have to take alot of pics, and write down alot of info, since there will be peeps knocking down the door to get this done

I'm currently doing this as well. I do have a second car to drive in the time that it's down. Just trying to locate all the parts right now. me and a friend are going to be working on it. He's a GM small car guru, and his brother will be welding in the mounts.

hopefully someone will actually do this swap that can help others who want to do this...who knows...i may try thi next year

Well if you need some help I'm available , I did it to my '99 Alero.

I'm using the Getrag Hm 282 out of a 92 beretta

What transmission are you using where you have to weld in mounts?

Man i cant believe this is still a sticky! i was pretty dang sarcastic two and a half years ago.

ill update it with a valid link, because i think it used to be a link to the search engine...hehe

I know, old post, but I have a question. What about the getrag trannys that were on the early 90's V6 cavaliers? Would they bolt up to our 3400's? I think that was before GM started making all their engines in a "family" format, to be swapp-able with multiple trannys and whatnot.

as long as you get the v6 bell housing it will bolt right up to the motor......

To generalize, basically the same bellhousing pattern was used on most FWD engines aside from the SOHC/DOHC 4-cylinders.

thanks cliff, and do you have a list of getrag 282 vehicles years and motors mated too......or you could probably just quote them off the top of your head.......

Basically anything FWD from 87-94 that has a V6, Quad4 (maybe only HO or better), or Turbo 2.0. However, the V6 ones are the ones that will bolt up to a 3400. The others do have some advantages if you want parts for more aggressive gears though. Somewhere during 1991 (limited production) and for 1992+, all the HO Quads had the 3.94 ratio. Some people want this, but for a 3400 unless you have some crazy tires you're just going to go up in smoke all the time. I can already break traction on GoodYear Eagle F1s from a roll with my basically stock 3400.

The 3.4 DOHC cars have a Getrag 284 which is a bit beefed up. But it's harder to service and uses a more expensive pull-type clutch.

sounds like one of those easier said than done deals.. lol

Not really. Finding a manual trans to bolt up to the 3400 is easy as pie!

Lmao Cliff, circumstance quote lol

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Anyone made any progress on this project? Looks like some guys had this in the works, or at least wanted to. Would be nice to see it done and working.

I forgot all about this thread, however I sold off the 5 speed parts and picked up the 4T65e-HD trans, axles, wiring harness, side mount and PCM code from the GXP Concept Car. I should be working on it sometime this summer as the parts are sitting in my garage along with a second 2000 GAGT. I just need to fab up the front and rear mount as they were already gone :)

did anything ever come of this

yes and no, mine is almost done, but it got put on the back burner and has been almost done for over a year........so who knows........hopefully before spring. I'm trying to get everything done so that in december I can take the alero to denver to get the new headers reworked....