JUst wanted to let everyone know that this worked great....

I bought a short throw kit, but I couldn't get off the bolts that hold on the shifter underneath the car, so I decided to just cut mine.

My friend and I just dye-ground my OEM shifter about 3 in shorter. Cut right thru it, and then leveled it out. I got a new shift **** from pep boys for pretty cheap, one that dones't go on with threads....

Everything is all set and done, and it feels almost identical to my friends DC sports short throw... overall

Looks clean, cheap, and damn easy to do...

 

may feel almost identical but almost doesnt count.

in no way shape or form a cut off stock shifter is the the same as an engineered short throw shifter.

but as long as your happy right? thats all that matters

 

I don't see how you figure... the actualy shifter ball doens't change at all... the whole concept of a short-throw goes as such:

\---throw from here------- /
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
\---to here--------/
\ /
\ /
__________

That's the whole 'concept' of one. There is not technological magic to them; they are simply another product of natural laws of physics and common sense.

 

Wrong. Just because you cut it lower. Doesnt mean the throw will be shorter. Sure it might sound like it in your head. On my C's short shifter, the height of the "stick" is the same as stock. But it feels a lot shorter than stock. What is actually shorter is the throw between each gear. Shifting from 1 and 2 is shorter, and the distance from 1, 3 and 5 are a lot closer to each other.

What you did isn't a short shifter. Instead of cutting your shifter, why dont you just hold the lower part of the shifter? It's basicly the same concept.

 

yeah on the true short shifter..the stick part under the ball is lengthen to assist in the "short throws" thus short shifter..most short shifters dont even actually sit lower..the "short" is the throw, shorter throw

 

yeah, but a shifter that is shorter will decrease shift length... but the effort to do so will be increased... thats why short shifters increase the length below the piviot point instead... so it doesnt require more effort to shift.

 

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Exactly. I bet you lean more into each shift than you used to now. But hey you gotta get that daily excercise in somehow, right? Maybe you should try the short shifter kit you were talking about. It would be a lot easier I guarantee.

 

i did try... but good 'ole chicago and their winters (puttin down salt).... my bolt that hold my shifter in wouldn't come out... so i just did this instead; it's true it does make it easier, but with GM synchromesh (which i'm runnin) makes it shift like 'butter' anyways....