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Re: Viggen Auto Posted by Larry West [Email] (#1140) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Larry West) on Thu, 12 Dec 2013 07:25:18 In Reply to: Viggen Auto, Name Left Blank, Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:16:50 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
For fun? Seems like insanity to me!
The 9000 auto will probably not work. The 9000 auto is a good old-fashioned hydraulically controlled auto trans that doesn't talk to anybody.
The auto trans that came in a 9-3 or 9-5, on the other hand, is electronically controlled, and talks to the Trionic T7 to work out the right gear, when to downshift, when to lock up, what to do when you press the "S" button or the "W" button, all of that.
Knowing the way the 9-3s and 9-5s are put together, even if you had a proper 9-3 Viggen auto trans to go in the car, you'd need the other car to pull the wiring for the Transmission Control Unit you don't have, which probably means swapping the entire harness. Oh, and you'd need the MIU (Main Instrument Unit, aka gauge cluster) from the auto car if you wanted to see the gear you were in, or "SPORT" and "WINTER" on the MIU.
There's something in the back of my head, too that recalls at least on the NG900, that there is a piece of firewall that is different between auto trans and manual. Maybe that's just the 900, and didn't carry over to the 9-3.
Unfortunately, these are not like the Classic 900 or 9000 where you could go from auto to manual or the other way in a weekend's wrenching.
Far, FAR better to use your time to find the car you need and sell the one you don't.
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