The transmission is a world class Borg Warner 5 speed manual out of a light duty truck. Once again cheap and common, the only problem is that the shifter location is quite far forward.
There are different tailstocks that can be used to convert the shifter location further back, but in my case it was cheaper to make up a remote shifter than to find one.
The shifter is some 3/4 DD shaft running through some center bearings that are attached to the tunnel.
I have welded an extension using some clevis's to attach to the regular truck shifter which will be out of sight up behind the dash.
It seems to work well and the shift gate is very small.
The shift handle does not roll like a regular shifter, but slides back and forth in the bearings, as a result to go from 1st gear to second you just pull straight back for about an inch and it is into second, an inch forward again and a little to the right and it is in third gear etc.
It is quite smooth, as to how it will work in the real world I wont know until I am on the road and do a real drive test.
The Hurst shifter handle is one a friend bought me when he was down in Nevada vacationing. He got it to replace the chrome 2 inch trailer ball I had drilled and tapped to use, he thought the trailer ball was a bit to cheap.
Al