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Originally Posted by sonny I was looking at eBay Italy auction 110419758082 for a Getrag 6-speed gearbox for the 164 Q4. It says that the code for this product is GETRAG 282.7.8107.92 (also stamped on the casing) Just for the heck of it, I Googled "Getrag 282". The first hit was a Wikipedia page for "Getrag 282 Transmission", which states: The Getrag 282 transmission was a 5-speed manual transaxle designed by Getrag. It is sometimes referred to as the Muncie 282 or the Muncie Getrag 282, as the design was licensed to General Motors for manufacture by Muncie (Getrag never built the 282). It has been used in various front-wheel drive transverse engine applications including the Chevrolet Cavalier, Pontiac Sunbird, Pontiac Grand Am,Chevrolet Beretta and the Oldsmobile Achieva. It was also used in the mid-engined rear-wheel drive Pontiac Fiero. In its later years, the Getrag 282 was manufactured by New Venture Gear and renamed the NVG T550. I also googled a few pictures of the North American 282 transaxle, and it certainly looks like the pictures (below) in the Italian Ebay auction. Maybe they are close siblings except for the 6 gears and the power take-off. Why is this information important? Q4 owners (and those using Q4 gearboxes in FWD 164s) have a problem because Alfa regards the Getrag tranny as a single replaceable unit. There are no exploded diagrams, spare parts, or repair tools. Maybe the crossover usage provides some of these.