Good luck with the project! I thought that I was the owner of the cheapest GTS on the planet. Mine isn't as bad as you desribed yours. The MB trans is a pretty solid unit and if you can get one out of a derilict 500 or 560 it might even be cheap. I should pull mine and sell it and use an S4 manual that is hanging around my garage. That would almost reduce the amount of money I have in the project down to 3 figures!!!!!!!! Lets see how could I make this GTS the cheapest one on the planet and still retain ownership? Have fun, manual tranies are definitely more entertaining!

Diverdan