Don't know if this will be any help, but just before my RS1800 festa got written off I had the gear linkage sorted on that, honestly mate, I could not believe the difference it made to the car. It felt like new, crisp and clean gear changes and also seemed to add a bit of power, i'd always thought the festa was down on power but doing the gear linkage seemed to breath a new lease of life into it, unfortunaely it got written off a week later ~