Geraintthomas, you nailed exactly how the car's current state is in, kind of mind boggling actually. By the way, I appreciate the helpful comments you've made, gave me some hope that there's still civil and helpful people amongst this community.
So I went ahead and ordered a SPEC stage 1 clutch last night. With my dual mass flywheel in good shape still, I'm going to stick with that and eliminate the potential rattle noise of a lwfw. I also purchased the Rear Main Seal and LN engineering's IMS retrofit kit(that got expensive quick
) Not to mention the tool kit for $350...
I found out that my IMS Bearing is a dual row IMS. Is this better than the single row IMS?
Is there anything else that anyone would recommend changing/replacing while the tranny is off?