Oh, I've gone through my share of T-5's, I know all about that stuff. Everytime for me it broke becuase of me whacking 3rd really hard. Once with 2 people in the car, once coming back from seaside (right next to Underpressure lol), and once at the track. The trans I have now is ok, the 2 gear synchro is kinda gone, it has always whined and it whines really loud when I launch at 4500 with my cheater slicks haha, maybe I'll try to find a new T-5 this summer, otherwise I'm drivin it until it breaks.