The car has a Fidanza 4puck sprung clutch so it has a harsh engagement, I drove the car back in December right after he first got it, trans shifted amazing for a dsm tranny even at high rpm's it shifted wonderful. My guess is it's a bad clutch master cylinder.
I typed "race car" in on craigslist and the neon popped up. if you go to the dudes myspace link on his ad he has some interesting cars on his page
http://www.myspace.com/boner22jared
sorry about the missing link in my post, here is the link I actually meant to post http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12234&highlight=bunker
Trailblazer's are nice, Only issues with mine is a power steering pump, and the cluster, the tach will sometimes work halfway, work normal or not at all, but the rest of the gauges work perfectly.