I am using a Subaru 5 speed in one of my builds, its not a Factory Five car and wanted to come up with a different gear change idea. The concept I want to develop if I can is to do a electric gear change. The current thinking is that you would have a paddle on the steering column and you would flick it up or down depending on what gear you want then either at the same time or a short time after you push the clutch in and the electric's execute the gear change. Just wanted something a bit different also I think that with some fine tuning the speed of the gear change could be speed up. I plan to use 2 12dv low rev motors controlled by a cheap PLC.
The reason I post is to see what people think of the idea, I have no interest in sell units its just for my own use. Currently just finished the design and now starting to build a unit.
Tony