[Scotty D]

larry the 4speed will hold up just fine,and be more efficient than an automatic.this part of the equation i hope jeff lee will correct where i'm wrong.the misnomer is that you have to work on them all the time that however is as far from the truth as you can get.if you build it bullet proof to begin with you shouldn't have to work on except for general maintance.i was talking to a guy here in cincy on this very subject at our first stick race of the year(i help with the umtr its a manual transmission series its in Ohio) his name is robby kropfeld,his dad drove the miss budwieser hydroplane racve boat for many years,robby is a very accomplished driver has won several big money bracket races.robby had said that he would like to build a stick to run with us,but he didn't want to have to work on it all the time.a friend dave stehlin who is the director of umtr has a all steel 79 z-28 that weighs 3400 lbs and runs 9.50,it is powered by a 415 small block and a clutch assisted jerico,he put a good slipper clutch in it and put approximately 300 passes on it,at that point had the clutch rebuilt and put a new ring and pinion just to be safe.also checked the trans and everything was a ok and rebuilt the motor.and all of this was with no more than general oil changes,valve adjustments and every 30 passes would do a clutch adjustment.if you would like you can go to the umtr website and ask all kinds of question everybody over there loves to talk stick cars and answer questions.