How hard is it to get an unmodified manual s14a?

[piman2k]

Don't worry about buying an Auto to manual conversion, it's not a complex conversion.

You'd be far better buying a pre-modified example and making it your own, it would save you a lot of money in the long run.

There are plenty out there, Facebook Marketplace has proved to be quite good for finding them. I have been watching and seen plenty come up.

[Jon]

re insurance premiums, I remember paying (an almost impossible to imagine) huge sum of £500 to insure a 957cc 45bhp Fiesta in 1993, and this year a standard S14 would cost me (put on credit card and cleared in two months) about £500 to insure.

If you're young and looking at £2000 premiums today, you can probably expect a lifetime of £2000 premiums