Hi I've lost first gear in my WRX, been told it's not s linkage as its a solid bar and I have to get a new gearbox, how much should a gear box cost me, how long should it take to take it out and put one in, is it easy and does is there a specific type of gear box it needs to be, I'm at Santa pod at the moment feeling sorry for Self haha any help cheers

 

£200-300 2nd hand
Time depends on what tools and facilities you have, on a ramp around 4 hours, on a driveway allow a day. Its a 2 man job ideally.
Easy to one person is hard to someone else so theres no answer to that
If its a uk wrx you'll need a TY754VN1AA, 2AA, 3AA or 4AA gearbox from a 99/00 classic, bugeye or early blobeye.

 

A ok so they are basically the same gearbox then mine says it's the 2AA
Cheers mate