took me and a friend a day to remove the gearbox and approx 6 hours the next day to put it back, we only needed abut 5 different size sockets
we took out the airbox, battery and battery tray, gearbox mountings, the support bar underneath the car, driveshft on the passenger side (be careful as there are a set of bearings in this and they are easily pulled out of place) and took the gearbox out from underneath the car, while you are there, check your flywheel
you may want a breaker bar to seperate the gearbox from the engine to get at where the clutchplate sits....or am i thinking of the wrong thing here guys?