All 4 would grind/crunch 1>2. All other gears I could shift as fast as I could move the shifter and the shifts were smooth as silk. I`ve got tranny #4 in and I put in MT90 after it had a couple thousand miles on it. It helped tremendously and quieted down the internal noise. It still grinds 1>2 occasionally,but I feel it`s as good as it`s going to get. The cheap manual tranny was the epic fail of the Nissan Z32. I don`t know why they didn`t keep using the Tremec T5 (like in the Z31) or upgrade to the T56`s for the Z32`s.