Mike Keener i dont mean to hijack your post but i was just wandering if you ever heard of the umtr(united manual transmission racers) it is an organization the is based out of cincinnati and cleveland ohio we have a northern and a southern chapters.if you would like some more info you can go to
www.umtrdragrace.com . its based soley on manual transmissions and we also have a chat forum theres quite a few people on there also that would love to talk to you and here some technical transformation from over the years,and quite a few remember you guys and a few raced against you to.theres a photo gallery from some of the races this past year and a photo of the locally famed granny goose camaro d/mp and also supposedly the mullins an mullins opel cadet is going to race with us this coming season. dave thomas and joe winblad are building a camaro also dave drove the ault n james corvette and joe also ran m/p in the joe who corvette he was involved in the indy protest with the guys in m/p.