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Originally Posted by satyr
Thanks for the input everyone! Maybe a solution to the ECU issue is to source a used one from germany for such a swap? With as many of these manual tranny E200s in the EU, I'm shocked that MB didn't bother to bring any over to the US, and I'd be surprised if it was a major ordeal for such a transmission upgrade. Not knocking the automatic crowd- but having driven the 190d with 4spd for 5 years, I just can't imagine myself driving this car, or a w210 diesel with an autobox....
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Any new news?
I'd like to swap my '97 e300 to a manual gearbox, but I'm not comfortable being the parts-pioneer and trying to find what works. I'd love to see a comprehensive "buy this stuff" list to achieve this conversion. Even if it was $5k in parts, I'd go for it.