for the price i got the xtd stage 3 and ive been running my car and i do run it hard at times, for over 8k miles with no problems at all, it depends on how well you break it in...during the first 500 mi if you treat it like a grasnny car your fine.... FYI this was my firt manual car so it did get quite a bit of rough shifting from me learning and it still runs fine