Dr.Jeff
True Classic
"They are impossible to get at the junkyards here."I have a contact in the UK that have MR2 shifters if interested. I've heard they should work well but I have no experience. They are impossible to get at the junkyards here.
That is the problem here, some of the good donors for such parts are not widely available - at least not cheap.
I had the same issue with another project vehicle. I was interested in doing a complete drivetrain swap and convert a FWD vehicle to RWD in the process. But all of the better donor choices were either low production models (and costly even when new), or the "drift" crowd has deemed them desirable and dried up the market - driving up prices.