good luck with it.
this thread may be nice to have:
http://www.318ti.org/forum/showthrea...light=obd+swap and this talks about the auto to manual conversion:
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...ad.php?t=79886 Just glancing over it, it seems like since you already have all the parts there won't be any real issues. I would probably do all the maintenance stuff while i'm in there though (new clutch, shift bushings, blah blah blah..)