difference between turbo and non-turbo 5-spds?

[BrutKobain at aol.com]

About the driveshafts you need to use them from a turbo, donor or not. ( I 
believe?)
with the throttle valve and accelerator, ended up using the same cable, but 
it was jimmy rigged to stay, much like you are thinking of doing (I've had it 
slip off at speed, and when it happened i had no clue what it was...turns out 
the cable had slipped off from around the balljoint). It works, but I think 
your best bet is to replace it with one from a turbo, if you end up having a 
great working solution please let me know. with the speedo, I believe that it 
a different setup from the NA to turbo (NA isnt electronic i think?) but I 
cant recall which parts you need.

HTH
Ian
85 5kT 73k

In a message dated 9/20/00 2:00:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ameer at snet.net 
writes:

<< My main question is why can't you use the donor driveshafts? I was 
 planning on getting rebuilt driveshafts for an '86-'87 5kT FWD 5-spd w/o 
 ABS. What should be used in this case?
 
 Any idea about changing the throttle valve and accelerator setup? I'd 
 really like to keep my setup and save a few bucks. Plus I heard the MT 
 pedal is higher and I'm happy w/ mine. I was thinking of just using the 
 same cable but rather than connect it to the AT lever, connect it direct to 
 one of the ball joints on the intake manifold. Also, can you still use the 
 electronic speedo on the MT convert? Mine has speedo sensor at the AT that 
 converts it into a voltage that's read by the speedo gauge [which is now 
 out of calibration anyway]. Any info is much appreciated.
  >>