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Manual Transmission Revival: Ferrari’s Second Life Through EAG Conversions · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  As part of Ferrari Fridays, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace
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  will be discussing all things Ferrari and interviewing people that live
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  and breathe the Ferrari brand.
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  Topics range from road cars to racing, drivers to owners, as well
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  as auctions, private sales, and trends in the collector market.
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  Hello everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
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  It's been way too long since I've posted something, hasn't it?
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  So, I tried to scale back some of the other things that are going on,
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  because I just keep forgetting and just getting out of here to do this.
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  And I really enjoy doing this.
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  I mean, I know the, I don't know how well the sound quality is.
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  I don't know how much you guys really, you know, everyone's, I got some downloads.
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  So wait, why not?
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  So I guess I'll just keep doing it.
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  So I've got a plan together, you know, going into this new year.
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  I know it's almost February, but like I said, I kind of, uh, got a
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  plan of attack for all the things I got to do and what I want to do.
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  And I want to really kind of attack the YouTube channel in regards to stuff.
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  So.
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  Uh, and you know, acquire some things for the channel, but also, you know,
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  kind of maybe grow this podcast some more and expand it to some other topics and
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  hopefully get some guests on and whatnot.
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  So I'm going to do what I can, but again, I'm no audio file.
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  I'm no expert at doing this kind of stuff.
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  So God only knows how it'll turn out, but Hey, just bear with me.
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  And as we grow, hopefully it'll get better.
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  And maybe I can get some people that actually know what they're
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  doing and, and help me out on this.
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  Cause I try to stick with what I know and that's cars.
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  You know, and that's talking about cars, driving cars, selling
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  cars, doing everything like that.
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  So, that's what I'm good at.
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  Computer technology stuff, not so much.
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  I guess it could be my ADD, I just don't have the patience for it.
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  Eh, or who knows, maybe I just get bored too easily.
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  Again, the ADD, so anyways.
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  But hey, welcome back to the podcast.
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  I'm William, and I really appreciate you guys listening.
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  So today's topic, as you probably saw from the title, we're going to discuss
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  Something that's kind of taking off recently in the past, I'd say, you know,
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  year, year and a half, maybe two years, but it's really, really gained momentum.
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  And that's taking the Ferrari, say a 360 and a 430.
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  Now, even a 599, even doing the 430 Scuds, taking the F1 transmission cars
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  and making them into a six speed manual.
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  Now there's an outfit down in Texas, uh, EAG, um, that
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  actually has performance now.
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  They have a very similar name to a very, very well known retail BMW dealer
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  down in Cincinnati, Ohio that deals in, you know, used BMWs, but they deal
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  in M3s, M5s, whatnot, all the high end stuff, and they get some gorgeous cars.
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  They're extremely expensive, but they get the best of the best of the best.
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  And if you're looking for something along those lines, if you're looking
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  for an E46 M3, an E36 M3, or the E39 M5, those are the guys to see.
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  That's also EAG.
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  But anyways, so different outfit, different company down to Texas.
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  So they've been around for a long time and they, you know, doing a lot
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  of work on cars and what have you.
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  And they, I think it took them a couple years to really kind of perfect the
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  package that they utilize to do this, uh, transformation on these cars.
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  Now.
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  You know, they really fine tuned it and honed it, so I mean, it's, it's spot on.
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  Now, I don't know how familiar all you guys are with how that transmission works,
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  but it's actually a cable operated system.
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  Even from the factory, it's cable actuated.
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  So, it's not like there's hydraulics involved, and that sort of, I guess,
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  you know, running lines, and that kind of stuff for, you know, it's,
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  you know, mechanical, so to speak.
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  So, they actually had designed and engineered a whole system
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  to replace the F1 transmission.
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  Now, I don't know if you've gone online and how much you do in your free time,
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  what have you, or killing some time at work at your desk, you know, but,
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  uh, I'm always, um, you know, in my free time or just sitting around,
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  I'll be on bring a trailer every day.
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  I'm on bring a trailer a couple of times a day.
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  I'll go on cars and bids and, you know, not so much eBay because I just
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  not a big fan of eBay looking at cars on there because they just kind of,
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  I think that's for the, the, uh, I want to say not say lower end, but
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  I don't say shady, but I don't know.
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  Very rarely do you find anything good on eBay.
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  I'll tell you that right now.
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  Uh, but, uh, you know, and sometimes I'll snoop through Craigslist
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  just to see if there's something kind of lurking around parts wise.
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  Um, but also, you know, Auto Tempest is fantastic.
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  So I don't know if anyone out there has been utilizing Auto Tempest
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  just to shop around and do some daydream and looking at cars.
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  But Auto Tempest is fantastic because they actually search through
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  basically every single used car site on the internet pretty much.
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  Um, you know, they're missing a few, but only one drawback, I guess, is it'd be
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  nice if someone could create something along the lines for all the auction
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  sites and for cars getting out, you know, uh, they're getting auctioned.
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  So that would be really cool because then you can really kind of get a better grasp
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  of what's really out there and what's for sale and following pricing and whatnot.
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  Because in my business, I know I've really got to kind of keep track of
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  the trends and what's costing what and what's going up, what's going down.
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  So it's kind of, that's kind of what led me to this topic because it,
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  when they were first coming out where they started doing these, I guess,
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  getting more well known in regards to doing these changes, transformations
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  on these cars, you know, there was some people that were crying foul
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  thinking, Oh no, why are you doing this?
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  That didn't he had the other side, which like me, uh, it's to
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  me, I think, Hey, it's awesome.
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  It's outstanding.
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  You can't fault Ferrari for it because they're following the trend.
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  And, and, you know, you look at what their sales numbers were.
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  And everybody was wanting to buy that F1 transmission because that was the cool
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  thing to get, that was the in thing.
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  So, I think it was something like, you know, on the 360s it was
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  almost like a, uh, 70 30 split.
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  70 percent getting the F1 transmission and 30 percent getting trans, uh,
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  you know, the 6 speed manuals.
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  It might be, it might be a little off.
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  Then I know with the 430s it increased even more to almost a 90 10 split.
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  Maybe like a 85 15 split.
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  So, you know, finding F30s with the 6 speed is pretty, pretty tough.
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  Uh, from the factory.
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  So EAG stepped in and came up with this kit.
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  And I know originally it was, hey you had to send your car
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  down there, they would do it.
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  I know it's like, you know, it's your 360 or 430, whatever, you
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  know, depending on which one it is.
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  You know, obviously there's some incidental work in there depending
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  on the shape your car's in.
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  Uh, but you're probably looking to do the transformation about 40 to 50 grand.
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  So it's not cheap.
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  Um, but the kit that they engineered is supposed to be, I guess,
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  even the tolerances are tighter.
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  Um, the quality, everything that they did was, I guess, it's even, it's
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  better than the factory's version of it.
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  So you're getting a very high quality.
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  So the tolerances are tighter.
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  Everything's a lot tighter.
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  It's a lot more, I guess, packaged better.
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  In regards to this kit that they sell and install now I've seen a few cars
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  that have said hey, it's utilizing the AG kit, but the installation was done
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  by X Y Z Company wherever they were at.
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  So obviously you can buy that kit and I think the kit just buying itself
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  like 18, 20 grand, something like that.
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  Maybe a little less, maybe a little more, somewhere around there.
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  But you look at labor and everything like that, so labor, you're
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  looking at 20, 30 grand to do it.
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  Because there's a lot involved.
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  You know, you've got a lot of pieces, you've got to get your
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  gear selected and whatnot.
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  But one of the big things that they perfected, now, I don't know how they
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  do this in regards to the cars that are getting done, uh, outside of EAG,
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  that they're just selling the kids to.
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  Because the biggest hurdle That they had to overcome.
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  I mean, you could make the parts, get the cables and stuff like that.
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  Hey, that's just a lot of CNC machining work.
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  Uh, engineering and just, you know, doing a lot of measurements
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  and whatnot and getting that done.
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  And hey, you got a good CNC guy.
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  Hey, they can whip this stuff out.
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  You know, if you got your own CNC machine, you can just sit there and do part, part.
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  Hey, try this.
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  Oh, no, do that.
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  Take this off.
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  You know, so you can handle it pretty easily.
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  But the biggest hurdle when they were trying to perfect this was the ECU.
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  Now, getting into that and, you know, getting, plugging yourself in and getting
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  the computer itself to recognize, hey, you know, hey, this is, we're going
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  from the F1 transmission, automated transmission to a six speed manual.
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  Now, there are two completely different Programming, did that sound right?
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  Sorry, I apologize if that came out right.
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  So I'm, I'm, you know, thinking as I talk here.
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  But anyways, so the, each car, each version of it has a
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  different program to it on how this thing reacts to your shifts.
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  So like when you shift, you know, the revs, everything like that.
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  So, and also on F1s it's got the little digital readout, you know,
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  gears, what gear you're in, everything like that, which the manuals don't.
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  So, that just becomes a blank space in essence.
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  But um, they have to go in there and reprogram this car to basically
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  think it's a, you know, hey, it's a 6 speed manual car now.
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  So that took a lot of work to do it because one thing is just about with
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  your revs and as you know, you're holding a gear, everything like that.
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  You know, because sometimes in that F1 transmission, you're holding
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  the gear, it'll shift itself.
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  You know, it's like that because the computer's thinking,
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  hey, it needs to shift.
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  So they had to go through and reprogram the whole ECU to be able to handle this.
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  So which is, it's an a feat in itself.
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  So again, I don't know if that's something that they just say, here's
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  the time to download it, whatever.
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  Here's the, it's on a USB.
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  I don't know how they would do it for an outfit outside
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  of EAG itself for doing that.
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  But you have to reprogram the entire system.
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  Now, if it was up to me, I would have EAG do it.
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  I mean, I guess if you got a really good shop and trust it, but hey
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  guys, I mean, that's up to you.
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  But I mean, I would probably, my have my druthers, I'd have EAG do my conversion.
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  Um, but obviously I think as it gets more and more common in doing
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  it, you know, like I said, it's not too technical to do the swap.
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  It's just getting the right people that know what they're doing.
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  And I think the biggest thing is having the guy that knows how to
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  do the programming for the car.
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  So once they get that situated, then hey, you're in business to do it.
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  But anyways.
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  Getting back to the main topic in regards to these cars now, so they're like the
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  past six seven months I've been kind of looking around at You know 430s and 360s
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  and you know It's just been popping up more and more and more that you're seeing
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  these cars that have had a manual swap done to them and basically a Majority
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  almost all of them have it's been done by EAG because they're pretty much the only
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  I would say the only game in town But that's the one everyone utilizes because
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  they basically have perfected it now.
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  They've been perfected to outstandingly, especially for the
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  three sixties and four thirties.
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  Now I know they started, you know, some of pop started popping up doing
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  the four thirties scud, which that would be a dream car to get for me.
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  I would take one in a heartbeat.
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  Now everyone's thinking, Oh God, that transmission is great.
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  Why did you buy it?
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  I was like, but you know, I'm old school, you know, I'm going to be 53 in April.
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  So I lean more towards having manual cars.
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  It's just who I am.
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  I just think it's more engaging, you know, and besides, if you're driving that car
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  on just on your regular streets and roads.
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  You know, it's not like you're, you know, unless you're doing track
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  days consistently with this car and you don't really drive it on the
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  street, you know, on the street, you're going to get a ton more.
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  Yeah, I was going to use that swear word, but I don't want to
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  get, you know, bleep things out.
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  I think it's going to get a lot more engagement and enjoyment out of you got
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  a six speed manual because you're just involved with the driving experience.
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  So I have no qualms with these conversions getting done.
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  It's just getting done properly.
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  Now, it's interesting though, pricing wise, like I've seen a couple of dealers.
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  I had one dealer, I actually spoke to 'em about it, and they had the
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  car priced at like two, was it 2 20, 200 $20,000 for a conversion.
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  And I've seen 'em all the way down at 130,000.
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  And these are on four thirties, so you know, 360 with the manual conversion
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  done, I've seen 'em anywhere from the one 20, a little one teams
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  range all the way up to 1 60, 1 70.
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  Now here's the thing, now they're gaining in value big time in regards to this.
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  So I'm gonna give you guys a little.
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  tidbit.
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  If you're, if you're in a position in life, you can go out and buy one.
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  I would definitely go buy a 360 6B manual from the factory or a
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  430 if you can get your hands on.
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  Yeah, you're going to pay a premium for them, but tell you what, as long as
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  you maintain and do everything you're supposed to do and just, Hey, you have
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  no issues paying, you know, roughly, you got a budget about just over your
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  lifespan of the car that you own it.
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  It'll average about say four to five grand a year.
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  You're going to have to do on maintenance.
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  Now, some years it could be maybe.
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  1, 500, 2, 000, just doing your general stuff, oils, that kind of stuff.
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  But some years you're going to have it worth maybe 8, 000, 9, 000.
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  So it all balances out to about 4, 000 or 5, 000 a year.
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  You're probably looking at just a budget in regards to maintenance for this car.
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  But I said, if you got the wherewithal and the means, I would definitely go
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  get your hands on one and enjoy it.
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  Uh, cause those things are going to just go up in value because it's, Hey, again,
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  they don't make any more, Ferrari ain't making any more manual transmission cars.
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  But.
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  Now, I guess here's where the argument comes into those.
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  Okay.
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  What's, what's the value you're going to maintain or keep?
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  Is it going to increase, decrease or what on a car that's
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  had a six speed conversion?
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  Now I know I'm pretty sure that, you know, you can get all, you'll get all
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  the parts back and everything like that for the, from the conversion.
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  So, Hey, if you're, when you go to sell the car and move it on, Hey,
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  you could give those parts to the new owner and say, Hey, if you ever
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  wanted to switch it back, cause it's.
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  Pretty straight forward underneath, as I said, with the cable, the actuators,
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  everything that goes on there.
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  Again, though, you have to reprogram the ECU to be able to go back to it.
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  So, I mean, I don't know why you'd want to, but I guess that's a jerk car.
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  You spent the money, you can do what the hell you want with it.
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  But, you know, I would never switch it back, that's for sure.
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  So, but here's kind of where I'm getting at a little bit also with this
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  conversation is I'm in the process of potentially, you know, looking at a 430
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  and I'm debating whether to go with a factory 6 speed or one with the swap.
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  Now, if I go with the swap, I can save a decent amount of money.
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  I could probably save 50, 100 grand, I bet.
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  Somewhere in that range.
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  You know, compared to a 6 speed, you know, swap that would have been done on one.
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  Um, roughly, I would say mileage wise, everything like that, you know, a lot of
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  the ones I'm seeing, you know, you got them in the mid high teens into the mid
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  low 20s range, you know, mileage wise.
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  Um, and here's the thing.
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  Mileage doesn't scare me.
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  Hey, if it's got all the service history and maintenance records to
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  it, I got no problem going after a higher, higher mileage car.
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  You know, hey, everything's fine.
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  It's a car.
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  It's meant to be driven.
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  As long as the service has been done, Hey, you got to do that
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  on your other, your regular car.
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  Yeah, that might be not as temperamental.
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  Um, but you know, you still got to do general maintenance, everything
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  on your just regular Camry.
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  Forward or whatever.
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  Um, so that doesn't scare me in regards to having a high mileage as
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  long as the history is there, you know, and a very complete history.
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  Um, 360s though, as everyone knows out there that knows their Ferraris
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  is my only drawback is going towards a 360 is they got the belts.
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  And those belts have to be done about every 5, 000 miles or every
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  5 years, something like that.
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  Um, 000 miles.
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  I know it's every 5 years at a minimum.
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  Um, And depending on where you go, now here's the thing with those, I
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  know I'm getting a little sidetracked here, but normally you go, you're
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  going to go somewhere that does the work, everything, a lot of times
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  they try and tell you it's, any place will say it's an engine out to do it.
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  It's not.
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  If you have some place that knows what they're doing, like there's a place
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  here by me that I know they do excellent work because they do it for some of
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  these guys, these dealers around here.
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  Uh, and I know Sam down at RSM.
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  A little plug for him.
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  Check out RSM Motors.
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  Sam's got, he's a kind of a boutique dealer.
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  He's just got very minimal inventory, but the inventory he's got is phenomenal.
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  But anyways, Sam sends his cars there and I know on a belt change service,
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  they only charge about three grand.
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  You know, so it normally appears like, Oh, it's like 10, 20, 000.
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  Nah, it's not that bad.
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  If you go to a shop that knows what they're doing, um, it won't be that bad.
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  But that's another nice thing, they'll go into the 430 because
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  it's a different engine and they went to change instead of the belt.
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  I mean, you're still going to have your general maintenance issues, everything
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  like that, but you're not going to have to do these belt changes all the time.
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  So that's kind of part of the ownership.
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  So especially like the earlier 360s, they got, you know, hopefully that
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  some of the issues have gotten fixed.
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  The first of the 99, 2000 models, they had some issues with the
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  fuel rails and that kind of stuff.
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  So, you know, kind of getting into a newer one deal.
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  Um, but anyways, I'm leaning towards the 430 to try and hold one down.
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  Now, again, like I said, I've seen something priced in regards to, Hey,
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  you know, 1 31 40 range, but then I see him obviously all the way up 200 range.
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  Now it's like, okay, let's be realistic.
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  Now the guy, the dealer that had the one that was in that one, uh,
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  2 20 range, I think it was 2 17 or something, something like that.
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  Anyways, I had a conversation with the phone a couple of times and
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  he's like, I'm willing to deal.
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  I mean, you know, so he wants to move it.
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  And you know, my thing is okay, maybe 1 65 1 70 because the car I think
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  I had 22, 000 miles on something.
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  Great services or anything.
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  It's a gorgeous color.
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  Now, me personally, I hate tan interior.
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  I cannot stand tan or light colored interiors.
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  I think that's the biggest mistake you can do is getting something, getting a
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  light colored interior car because it just shows dirt, grime, or anything.
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  I just, it's just not me.
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  I either prefer black or red.
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  Now, I'll go into a dark, dark tan like, you know, tobacco brown color.
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  That looks sharp.
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  I said, I hate light tan.
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  I hate gray.
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  I just, I'm not a fan.
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  So anyone I get, it's going to have to have a dark, you have a black
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  or red interior, uh, or that, you know, nice tobacco brown interior.
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  But my preference is black interior.
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  But anyways, so I know that guy would do a lot.
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  So I play kind of like trying to see where the trend's going is, are
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  these swap cars going to, I guess.
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  Become almost equal value of a factory one or, or is it just always going to
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  be a, I guess a 30 percent roughly to 40 percent difference in price between
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  a factory manual and a swap car.
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  So I don't know.
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  No, I said, I want to get my, cause I'm going to drive it.
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  I'm going to take that.
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  I'm going to start using it.
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  Hey, for the YouTube channel and start, you know, going around
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  cause I want to do is obviously I want to go around to events.
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  I'm not wanting to be one of those YouTube channels.
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  Just hey.
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  They get in their car and they go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
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  And I think you guys probably know what I'm talking about.
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  Um, great channel though.
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  He's got some decent cars, but I want to have actual content.
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  I want to go check out like all these, you know, there's awesome museums.
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  I'm in Ohio.
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  I got tons of museums that are within a, you know, eight, 10 hour
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  driving me or jump on a plane.
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  Um, I got these awesome events around here.
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  Hey, in the wintertime, I just jump on a plane, go down South wherever, rent a
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  car, head out to Cal, do stuff like that.
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  But I really want to start, I want to create content.
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  And kind of, uh, you know, take people along for the ride.
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  But another little thing, you know, background on me, is I also
• 20:01
  wanted to be able to give back.
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  I am a wish granter with Make A Wish and I also volunteer a couple
• 20:07
  animal shelters here locally.
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  So I really wanted to be able to utilize the channel and be able to, you know,
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  bring attention to these causes of mine and hopefully help them raise
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  money and do a lot of those things.
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  So anyways, and that was a little sidebar, but anyways.
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  So that's kind of what I wanted to get into, start using that kind
• 20:22
  of showcase and kind of do stuff along those lines to generate.
• 20:29
  But so I, I'm, I'm debating, you know, I came across, uh, a 430.
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  It's available to factory six speed.
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  I haven't spoken to him yet.
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  Cause I don't know what the price is yet on it, but it's a black, black car.
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  So it's like right up my alley.
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  Um, you know, and I'm not one to do all these mods to it.
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  I'll probably put an exhaust on it, but other than that, I'm not one
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  to do all that crazy crap to it.
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  I'm not going to twin turbo it and all that stupid ass shit.
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  Um, that's not me.
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  I'm a purist.
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  I mean, I love the sound of it.
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  I want to make it, you know, make it sound beautiful.
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  That's why I do the exhaust on it.
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  You do it to be on it.
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  I got Corso over here right down the street by me, probably about 15 minutes
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  from my house and I could partner up with them and get them on board
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  and hate, see if they can do some something for it special, but I'm just
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  curious to see where things are going.
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  I'm curious what your guys opinion at, because it's.
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  Again, some people are going to go, Oh, it's blasphemy, you know, it was how
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  it came and born from the factories.
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  I should keep it.
• 21:24
  Well, you know, it goes back to that.
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  It's just, well, they didn't make that many of the six speed manufactured cars.
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  There's only so many amounts are going around.
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  So it's like, what do you do?
• 21:34
  So again, Hey, do you get the conversion done?
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  You go by, you know, get the EAG route or, you know, Hey, you just,
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  you pony up and you're paid for one that was that way from the factory.
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  I think more and more.
• 21:45
  You are going to find it that much more difficult to find the factory six speeds
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  or you're going to pay through the nose for them where the swaps become more
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  viable and a alternative choice just because one cost, you know, like I was
• 21:59
  saying before, the product that EAG have produced and the engineering quality
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  that they've done, they perfected it, the tolerances are tighter than the factory.
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  It's a lot more tight.
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  It's it feels tighter.
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  Not saying that the factory 6 speeds are sloppy or anything like that.
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  They're great to look.
• 22:17
  Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, um, noise on those.
• 22:22
  But it's from my understanding and from everyone I've spoken
• 22:26
  to is just the engineering level is to the, I mean, to the moon.
• 22:30
  It's, it's a tremendous and you know, it's.
• 22:35
  Having the parts whatnot.
• 22:36
  Yeah, so again, you're gonna the little shift light thing, you know,
• 22:38
  what gear in won't work But that's okay, but you got your gear selector.
• 22:42
  You got that chrome ball sticking out.
• 22:44
  It's just beautiful.
• 22:46
  And I know I Not sure I know on some of their little ones AG was at was etching
• 22:51
  or wasn't etching their name into the gate where the you know Lever sticks
• 22:56
  out of some have it some don't so I don't know how that operates if you
• 23:00
  know if you can ask what or not, but hey You can always go on my eBay, which
• 23:06
  I said, I don't like, but you can go on the Ferrari chat, all these places.
• 23:10
  They have parts and stuff.
• 23:10
  You can just find one and swap it out.
• 23:12
  I mean, it's just going to bolt on, bolt off because it's the same size.
• 23:14
  Because those cars, obviously when they were built, they were
• 23:17
  kind of set up to go both ways.
• 23:19
  So you have everything there for it.
• 23:21
  So, and the clutch pedal hang, everything like that.
• 23:24
  So it's all there.
• 23:25
  So it's not like it's going to have to be something custom made.
• 23:28
  You can just swap out the factory parts for it for aesthetic reasons, if you like.
• 23:33
  But anyways.
• 23:34
  That's my thoughts on that.
• 23:36
  I'm curious to see what you guys think, you know, hey, you know, put a message
• 23:40
  below, shoot me an email, William at the Ferrari Marketplace dot com.
• 23:43
  Let me know your thoughts and see what you guys think.
• 23:45
  I'm really curious to know what everyone out there feels about these
• 23:48
  manual swap cars and their thoughts.
• 23:50
  And, and if, hey, if you have the wherewithal, you
• 23:55
  know, would it bother you?
• 23:56
  Would you want to factor away?
• 23:57
  What did manual swap bother you?
• 23:59
  So I'm curious to see what everyone thinks.
• 24:01
  So shoot me an email, let me know.
• 24:02
  I have a feeling we might talk about this some more.
• 24:05
  But anyway guys, hey, I really appreciate you listening.
• 24:08
  Keep a lookout for the YouTube channel.
• 24:10
  There's already some stuff out there.
• 24:11
  It's Garage 65.
• 24:13
  Uh, that's, you know, it's the word 60 then the number 5.
• 24:16
  So look up Garage 65.
• 24:18
  I'm trying to get that all tweaked out.
• 24:20
  They have some number apps right now, so I'm trying to get the number eliminated.
• 24:22
  You're supposed to be able to do that somehow, someway.
• 24:25
  Check it out.
• 24:26
  Um, like I said, I'm going to try and get this to more of a
• 24:29
  weekly format here on this stuff.
• 24:31
  Uh, get some other topics going, you know, talk about some old race stuff.
• 24:34
  Uh, talk about some of the new stuff coming out.
• 24:37
  I know we already talked about the Puro Seng and it's kind of growing on me.
• 24:40
  So, um, yeah, I have a lot more talk to him.
• 24:42
  Like I said, I'm hoping to get some more, get some, get some more, get some
• 24:46
  guests maybe to come on and chit chat.
• 24:48
  Um, I just did a podcast with the other guys over at Garage Ride
• 24:51
  the other week with, uh, Colleen Sheehan from Ferrari's Online.
• 24:54
  That was a great one.
• 24:55
  It was a good time.
• 24:56
  Check out garage riot.
• 24:57
  Uh, they got some great content, uh, great podcasts on there, uh, and listening up.
• 25:02
  So they got some good stuff too.
• 25:03
  So everything's posted up on the exoticcarmarketplace.
• 25:07
  com website.
• 25:09
  Uh, there's links everywhere on those team too for all these for mine
• 25:12
  for garage right and we're adding more content on a regular basis.
• 25:15
  So Check that out and I will talk to you soon guys.
• 25:19
  I appreciate it and take care.
• 25:21
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