Ryde _Or_Die

just wondering if the tranny out of an 88 GXL would bolt onto the 12a in an 85 my friend has.

peejay

Yep.


You need to swap the shifter housing/shift rod to make the shifter line up, and the tail housing so the mount is the same, but yes it'll work. The N/A tranny pretty much stayed the same since '79 except for improvements here and there, and it's still in use in the Miata.

edit: I hsould point out that the 5th gear on an FC is way tall compard to the 12A trans. I find 5th gear on my '85 is too tall as it is and I usually use 4th. The FC 5th gear might be totally unusable if the car has stock rearend gearing. The 12A doesn't do much below 4000 rpm...