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European Auto Group, the automotive tuning company from San Antonio, Texas, has already amazed the automotive world with its unique transmission swap projects (such as 2020 Toyota Supra and Ferrari 430 Scuderia). Art Bartosik, the head of EAG, has recently announced that his team plans to embark on the manual swap for the Mercedes-AMG GT.

As cars equipped with manual transmissions gradually disappear from the automotive market, some auto enthusiast still try to find comfortable new models that come with a touch of classic powertrain design. One talented mechanic came up with the idea to perform a transmission swap on the factory Audi SQ5 that comes with an automatic transmission only, and after some time this car got a clutch pedal as well as a gear stick.

The manual 2020 Toyota Supra is finally here , as the EAG team has managed to integrate a 6-speed manual transmission in the Supra design. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at all stages of the transmission swap process with the help of videos from EAG’s youtube channel.

Go4trans.com has already highlighted some basic information on the 2020 Supra transmission swap project performed by EAG in one of our previous articles. This time we want to delve into the technical side of the project with the help of numerous videos provided by EAG and learn more about the company itself.

While most of car manufacturers gradually drop manual models from their line-ups, some companies find a great source of income in swapping automatic-only models in manuals. Thus, the team of bright-minded and enthusiastic engineers from “B is for Build” came up with the idea to convert a Lamborghini Huracan into a classic manually-shifted sports car.

Nowadays, it comes as no surprise that sophisticated automatic transmissions push out classic manual transmission even from sports car segment, and the Infiniti Q60 Red Sport 400 is one more example of this automation trend. But the group of enthusiasts from Concept Z Performance (CZP) decided to add to the Q60 a key element of the classic sports car – a manual gear stick.

Despite numerous internet appeals to Toyota to include a manual transmission option for the new Toyota Supra, it seems that the Japanese automaker plans to stick only with the 8-speed automatic solution from ZF. So far, it is unclear whether Toyota will decide to add a gear stick in the future, but fans of manual Supras are excited to know that the American company European Auto Group (EAG) is ready to take up this challenging task.

The main differences between these two units lie in the fact that the 2WD output shaft is longer than the 4WD version and 4WDs are connected to a transfer case. Some carmakers manufacture their 2WD transmissions in such a way that they can be transformed into 4WD models.