[paolo]

I knew a guy who spent some dough on converting his civic from auto to stick, heres what happened: 1.5 months of not having the car, it was in the shop getting slowly transformed, approx 4-5 G's on conversion in parts + labour costs + retrofitting the car to acoomidate manual trans related parts, engine still has same if not, very very slightly more power than it started with, and it STILL does NOT drive the same as a civic which came with Stick trany from the factory... IMHO, only worth it if you have access to a garage/shop and a lot of time to work on it and a wrecked car for donor parts