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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Hydraulic clutches are not so great, more prone to fail than an a cable-activated one.
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Maybe so, but they're all hydraulic in the 1992-2000 years, so unless he wants to fabricate a shifter mechanism...
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Originally Posted by Honda
I drive this car 90% of the time on the highway, I found a used transmission from 1999 civic, I may buy it if I can't find one from VX or CX. Thanks a lot for the link.
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Then I can see why taller gearing is a high priority. I do relatively little freeway driving, but I wanted to do more and I needed a replacement trnas, so I got this 1993 CX tranny.
It matters which 1999 Civic it is that you're looking at. The freeway cruising rpms will vary by something like 13%. If you're going to do the swap, might as well get the best bang possible. The EX had the shortest final drive gear and the HX, CX, and DX Hatch had the tallest final drive gears in those year (1996-2000). All the Civics had the same 4th and 5th gear in 1996-2000. So here is the test you can try to see if you have one of the taller geared or one of the shorter geared trannys:
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post319503. Using that test, an EX (short gears) will make about 3.86 turns in 4th (pointing at about 10 o'clock) and a HX, CX, or DX hatch trans will make 3.38 turns (pointing at maybe 4 o'clock).
james