Just to clarify, the manual tranmission is for your figure 8 rules. To go out on a track rental day you can have any tranny.
I don't have an accusump or a crossover breather setup. Sure, it's a good thing, but don't let that keep you from getting started and going out. Most of the older cars we had for our track day didn't have those two things. They were fine.
Now, my road course skills and car are not at the same level as the Valiant who's driver is a track instructor.
Cool Figure 8 car waggin. I've seen Jesse James in the pits with us at our home track, Irwindale. They had a really cool 200 lap? figure 8 enduro last year? that Jesse put up like $10K to win. After we got our stuff put away, I watched the end of that race and it was awesome!!