auto to manual swap how hard? how many hours

Where did you get all the parts? If its a complete donor car, than you do have everything...But If you have bought it all yourself seperatly, you may want to show us a list of what you have. You may not have Everything.

If you can't do it yourself, then get a mopar guy in your area to do it...not a shop. Your going to spend alot of money. + they may not care what the end result is going top look like, so if it won't bee seen, they may cut corners. Just my opinion.

Its really not hard. Most everthing should bolt right on. I don't think many of these cars didn't get made to accept a manual or an auto I could be wrong. You do want that square peice on the inside of the drivers fender for suport on the Z bar. I am pretty sure only manual cars had this, and the sheet metal is not strong enough. this is one part that is often overlooked.