homemade shortend shifter?

[aqwkmf]

if i pick up a shifter from a juck yard and sawzaw the threads off.....sawsaw a few inches off the main shaft and reweld the threads back to the remaining peice of **** will it hold up enough to shorten the length of the shifter. for bling bling purposes only..i doubt it will shorten the throw at all. or am i wasting time.

[misnomer]

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It will shorten the throw a bit because you have a shorter lever. Won't change other characteristics that much, to get any big change in shift, you really need to move the fulcrum. As far as holding up goes, it all depends on how good you are at welding.

[Andrew Bohan]

yeah a real short shifter is short because the fulcrum ball is higher, not because it's just shorter

[KOUKI KA-T]

Honestly that sounds like a big waste of time to me...not to mention it would shift like @ss without the leverage. Kids come into the shop all the time wanting us to "fix" their short shifter because it shifts like crap. If you're only about the bling affect buy a cheap one for like 60 bucks...

[turtlepower240]

Originally posted by aqwkmf
if i pick up a shifter from a juck yard and sawzaw the threads off.....sawsaw a few inches off the main shaft and reweld the threads back to the remaining peice of **** will it hold up enough to shorten the length of the shifter. for bling bling purposes only..i doubt it will shorten the throw at all. or am i wasting time.

my cousin did the same thing to his, but he said it was a big pain in the ***, and somewhat risky...

[aqwkmf]

thanks for the info guys...ill stay way. its not that important.....btw if i loose the big counterweighted stock knob how much will that affect the shift?

[radhaz]

From the research I have done, the "slop" in our shifter is reduced to some extent by having that heavy knob at the end. If that is the case then most likely removing it may at some small level decrease the amount of time you spend shifting (due to lighter weight) at a cost of increasing your shifter wobbling.

[aqwkmf]

so what do you guys recommend on that? anybody got aftermarket knobs? if so does ur shifter fly round..

[YellwMonky]

the lighter knob does not make the shifter wobble around. The purpose of the weighted shifter, as i understand it, is to eliminate some of the "shock" when shifting through gears. I changed shift knobs and personally, i would never go back.

[SilviaDriver]

B&M ownz j00z!

[Grant]

i had a home made short shifter. It works, it doesn't make shifting hard. B&M makes shifting hard. once you're used to it you get to love it.

i have a stock one, chopped and rethreaded. it sits low, but doesnt really improve shifting that much (it does but not as much as a B/m or obx....) if anyone wants it.. just pay me shipping i guess? lol.

[crioten]

um, dont cut and weld, thats just a waste of time...

just cut it to the right height, and go to the hardware store and buy a tap and dye to rethread it to match the shift knob, this will run ya like $3-4, and all ya really need is like a 1in wrench...do this, b/c you might mess up welding, and it will save time

[black s13]

i guessing that the weighting is a good thing. just look at all "high end" shift knobs (mugen, nismo, skunk2) there all heavy as hell, and from my ecperience, on hondas at least, the skunk2 knob/shifter felt "perfect".

[240SxTYLE]

wouldn't the throw from the fulcrum down also be shorter in a way? meaning a shorter throw into your gears... equaling harder to throw into gear?

EDIT: on a stock shifter