E30 Zone

Is this difficult and expensive to do ? I love my touring but would love it to be manual any advice??

Which engine you running dude? they all quite easy to do, obviously easier if you have a half complete donor car for all the clips and pipes ect. Let the pedal box wars commence

Erm not sure it's an 88 325i

Is it expensive to get done will it have to be done by a specialist garage ??

will cost £500-1000 depending on where it is done. worth making sure it is done properly though with all the electrics fully sorted and you might as well put in a new clutch while you are at it. The advice about a donor car is wise sourcing all the bits can be a pain. As for it being easy it is not a job for a novice and is also quite physically hard, gear boxes are heavy old things to manhandle on your own.

do it its the best thing i did to my cabbie
off your donor car you will need ....
gearbox with slave cylinder
prop (point to note my donor was a coupe and the centre bearing mount was different)
pedal box with master cylinder
fluid resevoir
fly wheel
reverse light switch loom
things that a probably best replaced would be...
spigot bearing (30x10x12)cost 2 pound from a bearing traders
clutch
clutch line from master to slave inc flexi

another point to note i initially used my starter motor and on the moment of truth it just whirred away to its self and no amount of persuastion seemed to help i switched it for the one off the donor car and and it fired up straight away