are you heel and toeing on the downshift?

 

You have enough room to heel toe in an American FD? Hah! I can't even turn my right leg the slightest..



Anyway, FDOkinawa, I found it was much cheaper to just buy a used tranny than to rebuild my old one (unless of course you're doing it yourself.. but then you already have the $800 puller set). There's a guy on the forum selling a '97 J-spec tranny if you're interested.