just recently bought a evo 8, but now it have 5th gear grind at high speed. found somone selling a rebuild mr 6 speed tranny with only 1500 miles on it. he willing to install it for me for 1500 + my tranny is that a good deal?

 

Stick with the 5 spd it's technically stronger.

 

And you will need to find a 6 speed shifter and shifter cables. ( i think that is it...)

 

yes the 5spd is stronger the 6spd is more for daily driving so tour not on hi rpm at low speeds and its more of a hassle when your suck in traffic like bumper to bumper

 

the evo is my daily driver and im not modding it heavily just downpipe,intake,test pipe and exhaust and maybe tune ecu.

 

Then i would just stick with the 6 speed if thats all your doing. Anyway the 6 speed is stronger 1st to 3rd and the 5speed is stronger 4th to 5th. So either way if you want a solid trans you have to build the 5speed or the 6speed. Both have weak points so just do what you want .

 

But you'll need more than just the 6 speed tranny to complete the swap, keep that in mind.

 

How many miles on the car? I had the same problem and the dealer replaced my tranny and clutch under warranty.

 

I definitely think you will catch the mod bug and further your modifications after you get used to the power. I said the same thing and am now addicted to adding more and more parts,

Something to think about...

 

http://www.sheptrans.com/transmissions/evo.htm $895 if your friend will R&R your trany for $600 you are under the $1500 with a bullet proof 500whp trany. my $0.02

 

yeh the guy going to do the swap for me and provide all the parts as well as the mr tranny harness

 

50k

 

I like my 6 speed a lot, especially I like to do top speed run this is where the 6 speed shine, the extra gear helps re-acceleration on the higher speed. I've heard lots of bad review on 6 sp but there are a lot 5 speed tranny problems out there as well. For $1500 you are getting a built 6 sp tranny and installation I think it's not a bad deal. I've got over 64k on my 6 sp tranny and I do race people a lot, and there are many others here w/ over 100k on their 6 sp.