With the Camaro bellhousing, the tranny is tiped 17 degrees. This means you need to use the Camaro mount and shifter. You'll need to modify the car as the other guy did to make it all work. That also means mounting a cylinder on the firewall to hook up to the clutch pedal arm.
If you use the correct bellhousing and linkage, the only thing that needs modifying might be the location of rear mount, which needs to be done either way. Mechanical setups last practically forever, when compared to hydraulic setups. Both use the smaller 153 tooth flywheel.
the time it will take to make the $300 option work is, in my opinion, worth more than $100, but it's up to you. Either way can be made to work.
Perhaps putting an add on craigslist, or adds on some of the nova specific sites will turn up something?? have you talked to Twisted6??
