[Dean]

What Scott said... My 02 WRX tranny has getten a beating and keeps on ticking. I don't recall teh current milage, but almost every mile except the forst 2000 have been driving to a beating, the beating, or the drive hoime from the beating. While I am no Gary Sheehan, I have flogged, probably over 2500 track miles now in my WRX, Hundreds of Autocross runs with mean nasty ram it in downshifts, and very quick upshifts with no problems, and I am still on the factory tranny fluid. Non of this fancy pants Shockproof stuff for me. (yet)

I agree that the vast majority of the people bitching about the WRX tranny are trying to cram to much HP/Torque through it, or just don't know how to shift.

You wanta crappy tranny, get a Gertrag 5 or 6 speed from a 3S car. Now there is a piece of $4!+. Leaky, undersized synchro without enough clearance between the case and the gearset hunk of junk.