4 speed conversion. Help or hurt value of car?

I got no patience for guys like that.....there's the door....Go buy a Neon.
When my S-clone was fresh, we went to a few shows, and I learned real quick that there are lots of those guys out there.So I stopped going as a participant.
I quickly got tired of :"you shoulda this or you shoulda that, or how come such and such, or my uncle had one of these -insert favorite non-Barracuda here." Yeah, I suppose I'm a little crusty like that...