Installing Penryn MBP top Case on Santa Rosa MBP

Hi all, im quite new to the forum and i got my santa rosa MBP not too long ago (i bought it second hand). i am extremely happy with the machine as it is a 2.4ghz c2d with 160g hdd at 5400rpm and 8600gt 256mg gpu.

i know this has been discussed many times, please bear with me

so i have been reading about the multi touch trackpad and was a bit bummed that i didnt get the newer 2008 penryn model instead. 2 days ago i was thiking about replacing the SR MBP top case with a penryn MBP top case and have the multi touch, 4 finger gesture ability on my SR MBP. therefore i started googling to see of people have actually done conversions and worked..fortunately, i found a member on this forum and confirmed that it actually works...but unfortunately there was not guide for this operation.

I would really want to hear from those that has performed such replacement operation and perhaps give me some tips and what i may need to watch out for. in addition to that, does anybody know of a guide for this replacement? would the penryn top case keyboard and trackpad connections fit the SR MBP? any modifications needed?

sorry if this has been asked a billion times...believe me ive been googling on threads and guides on this matter for at least 3 days now...any comments regarding this would be extremely helpful and i thank you all in advance for reading and providing any thoughts.

 

It's the same as any disassembly of the macbookpro.
unscrew stuff until you take the keyboard portion off, then replace with new one.

there is a guide here, follow till step 10 or so.

Very simple

 

sulkrop, thanks for you response. i was wondering if i got the penryn MBP top case. is it just plug and use? do i need to modify ?

thanks in advance for your comments