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I'm with ted... Renesis trans is a bad idea. Not to mention the gear ratios are better in the jspec T2 trans anyway. If you're really insistent in "50/50 balance" then find someone local with a corner balancer and add weight to the ass end. That's what I would do rather than use a weak transmission. There are several threads on the RX8 club forums detailing all the weak parts and how / why they fail.