I special ordered my '88 190 2.6 with a five speed manual transmission. It was only available as special order, and it took me four months to get it. I don't know how many 190E 2.6 five speeds were imported in '88, but from what evidence I was able to gather likely no more than 200.

It has the same 3.27:1 axle ratio as the automatic that has a direct drive fourth gear, but fifth in my five-speed is 0.80:1.

Revs at 60 in fifth are about 2200 and 3000 at 80, and like I said with the more aggressive spark advance map it will easily pull from about 35 MPH in fifth which is about 1500.

And as I previously said with the OE 750K R16/1 resistor the rate of advance increase with engine revs was lazy, which killed low end torque and fifth was not usable below about 45 MPH.

Read the threads I started on this subject.

Duke