Hi Cavallo, With great interest I followed this thread and thank you for sharing your story. I have just purchased an f1 355 with sole intent of converting it to 6 speed manual. My purchase options were very limited because I do not live in the US where I can actually see f355 on sale. I do not know how private messaging works here, so I write here in hope that you see this message notification via email. I was wondering if you could share with me the list of parts that you purchased & any additional ones that Continental has in order to make this conversion. If you could throw in some recommendation how I should go about sourcing & giving instrux to mechanics, I would really appreciate it too. Many thanks!