Goodness for folks who have an auto tranny. Unfortunately the manual tranny crowd for now is left out in the cold.
Not completely. Another option thats getting worked out on the Zook side is the Volvo tranny. Since it's fixed flange, you could now step up to one of many different divorced t-cases, from Zook to Toy, to New Process to Dana.
But with some parts swapping between the Zook, it can marry the Zook stuff to it (ott, etc.) Why the Vulva tranny? Vacuum controlled and no need for the tranny puter. Makes a manual>auto swap MUCH easier.
Personally, I love autos in the rocks. Less pilot input means the pilot can better focus on flying. I used to be "i want manual so i can control yada, yada" but once I went auto, I've been assembling the parts to convert my Sammy to auto.
But thinking out loud. I think the bellhousing is also removable on the manual tranny. It might be feasible to adapt a Zuk manual tranny and transfer case, if the bolt pattern on the tranny side of the bellhousing is the same. And input shaft length/size.
Unfortunately, this I don't see happening, as the trannys are completely different, with Kia being Getrag and Zook being AISIN. But some options are better than none. The Volvo may hold promise for you as wiring in a electronically controlled 4spd is taxing to say the least, volvo is almost plug-n-play.
The cohesive thread is the AW tranny. That holds the most promise of getting viable t-case options and alike into this platform.
