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Old 02-11-2018, 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by wolf_walker View Post
It took awhile to get to the point where things are nearly a bolt-in but I'm surprised there aren't any solutions for such with Mercedes.
A manual trans Volvo was way more common than a manual MB ( at least in the USA )

The last inline 6 manual was 91 or so, the last 4 late 80's ? Even then they were not so common. The manual did reappear in a few 4 cly SLK and perhaps other small cars in the late 90's or so. Unless you go back to the 60's, all of these had a bell housing integral with the trans making a swap difficult.

The last V8 manual might have been late 70's in a SL but even then, not common.

Also, the market for MB manual stuff is likely much smaller than Volvo.
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