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good question but how does converting a car to manual change it's safety or road worthiness. A RWD manual Stagea is essentially an R33 or R34 GTS-T skyline in a wagon body and the fact that stageas allbeit only AWD ones came factory as manuals also i should think it would be a nullenvoid issue.

im planning on converting my RSV RWD to a maual and if a cop wants to tell me it has to be an auto or get it off the road i will just run him over. lol

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Assuming that the car is yet to be imported, I don't think it will be too easy, but the best way to find out for sure is to speak to a few importers and/or compliancers to see what they say...

I see what you're saying David, but if the car is yet to be imported and complied I think there might be issues with actually getting it on the road. What is done to the car afterwards they don't have as much control over, and a cop and/or the RTA can't really say much unless the car is clearly unsafe or unroadworthy. I doubt they could convincingly state that changing it to manual makes it unsafe.

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I bought mine already converted, so never had to worry about the hassle and cost of doing it - in fact that's why I snapped up this particular car! Had it almost three years now, and when I was in the market a manual Stagea was MINIMUM $28K...

Never had a hassle with the boys in blue, because I've never been pulled over. Even if I was (or if I ever get pulled over in the future), they'd be none the wiser because it looks factory inside - all s2 RS-Four S console parts were used on the interior.

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