As for availability if you wanted a US business contact try Jason @ Alfissimo. He's there in Arizona.
Otherwise EBSpares or AH Motorsports in the UK. A couple of years ago I purchased a Q2 from AH Motorsports, but had it installed in a C530 (6sp) tranny that was out of the 916series GTV (the cars that followed the 164 series ~1996 -2002?) Any mechanic that is familiar with properly shimming an LSD into a differential should be able to properly install this. Personally, I had a mechanic at a well regarded SAAB repair shop do the LSD install/shim, while ultimately going to Group2 in Seattle for the actual transmission install when other work was being performed on my '95 164LS. I cannot address mods needed for speedometer hookup. I will say that the Q2 has made a world of difference. - No more torque steer on acceleration, and there are perceptible handling improvements. I placed 2nd in my class for AutoCross at the National Convention in DC back in 2010. Placed 17th out of 45 overall...this in a big fwd 164! Placed higher than several transaxle cars. Of course I am thrilled with the 6sp as well, which is a close ratio gearbox with a 3.56 final drive. The first 3 gears are closer matched and give much better acceleration... while 6th gear dropped my revs by about 500rpm at freeway speeds. Ron in Seattle aka Renaldo on the Alfabb -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
