I have a EP3 Si shifter cable, and I want to fabricate my own shifter bushing that will allow me to connect to the transmission. Originally, I had wanted to order something online, but it will take too long to ship to me here in Jamaica (and I want to drive the car now). I know that anything I fabricate will require at least two large washers and some sort of bearing for the center piece, but I just wanted to know if anyone has done anything like this with a lathe or a "hole-saw" with blocks of wood of the correct thickness. Normally, I don't doing anything so "ghetto", but I've reached the point of desperation. Here is a photo of my actual shifter cables below.

 

I know it blows to be without a car but I recommend you suck it up and wait for the shipping. You don't wanna f**k up something as sensitive as your trans. Hybrid racing makes the best aftermarket bushings or look around for a wrecked manual trans EP3, RSX, TSX or 06+ civic si and just take the bushings off of that for now.

 

The EP3 is very rare here, so is the TSX and 06+ Si. We have many ES1,2,&3 civics, but they only come in auto or CVT. Our junkyards, only stock scraps for sixth generation civics and older. My local Honda dealer is lame by stocking for only non-JDM vehicles.

...Hence, I fell in this desperate situation where I was hoping that one of you had already fabricated something for a situation like this. I'll try again this weekend to see if any of my local suppliers have anything like it or if I'd have to really do the long wait for Hybrid Racing to ship it to Jamaica.

 

try some polyurethane or hard rubber with a metal insert, before you use wood. Hole saw should work though

 

Pardon my noobness, but I can't find find polyurethane in my local hardware store. That was the first think that I was thinking about for my custom fabrication, but they don't have it. I wanted to find a machine shop with a lathe that could chisel out a block of metal to OEM specification, but I can't find the dimensions online anywhere to make my own, and I don't have a vernier caliper to accurately measure it myself.