Hey if anyone has pictures of what the inside of a manual transmission Camaro looks like. I am going to swap my Turbo400 for a Richmond 6 Speed when I get enough money and change my rear end to a 3.73. I know what the rear end looks like but I don't know what the pedals look like and where the the emergency brake goes or the brights switch. If anyone has pictures of what it looks like I would really apreciate some pictures.

 

Brights switch and E-brake stay how they are. You need to swap out your pedal assembly for one from a manual car. The brake pedal and clutch pedal will be the same width as each other (narrow), and they both will take up the same space that your current brake pedal does now. You will no longer have a wide brake pedal like you currently have.

 

Ok I knew I would need a new brake pedal but what about the accelerator, can that stay where it is now? I don't know about the clutch cable where is a good place to drill a hole for it?

 

Accelerator pedal stays the same too.
Clutch cable? This isn't a Honda you're working on!
Manuals in your vintage were operated by a rod from the clutch pedal to a cross shaft (z-bar) that gets mounted between the engine and frame. Then another rod goes from the z-bar to the clutch fork. Look at your firewall near the steering column. You just might see a small cover being held on with two screws. That's where the clutch rod passes through.
This is in a Vette, but the info should help you somewhat: Richmond 6 Speed Swap

 

I have to say you are the ****ing man!

 

I sure hope the **** wasn't a bad word!
A number of years ago, I had a different 69 Camaro that I converted from automatic to a Muncie 4 speed, so I've been through all this crap already. Mechanically, there isn't a lot of difference between the 1st and 2nd gen's.

 

Ya man thanks a lot. I have a transmission question for you. Is there a company that makes a six speed transmission that has two over drives? The Richmond has one over drive but if I am doing 40mph with a 3.73 rear I am at like 984rpm and that is not possible. I need some thing with two over drives if you know any.

 

First of all, you don't need (or want) to pop it into high gear until you hit highway speeds. Driving slower speeds in too high a gear lugs the engine down, hurts performance, and can even hurt your gas mileage. At 40 mph, even putting it in 4th gear (with a 6-speed) is marginal. Around town, put the trans in whatever gear keeps the engine somewhere in the low to mid 2000's rpm range. Just because you may have 4, 5, or 6 gears doesn't mean you have to use all of them all of the time.
Why do you think you need a double overdrive anyway?
Here's something for you to play with: Transmission Calculator

 

Well when I get my new rear end all the gears except 5 and and 6 are going to kill my gas mileage. I am looking into getting a 1996 plus Corvette transmission the Borg-Warner T-56. I don't want to be in the 2000 I would like to be just under somewhere in the 1500 to 1800 range for about 40mph this way for my daily driver I don't run out of money paying for gas. The Corvette transmission is just what I am looking for.

 

For the bell housing I need to get the casting number off of my block. What is the essayist way to get that number? I know it is located at the back of the block on the drivers side.