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I am going to be setting up my tools to make myself a short shifter.
I haven't started yet, but it will be a modified, or refabricated from a stock shifter piece.
I am gauging interest on who else would like a short shifter before I start.
It will be designed to be as strong or strong the the OEM shifter. So no fear of it breaking.
Price will be $100 shipped in the 48.
I can post more details when i do mine.
after you get yours done and pictures i may be interested. i want you to test it though. haha
I am definently intersted. But I do not live in the 48. After you build yours and run it for a bit I'm sure I could compensate you for the added shipping costs. Let's see how it turns out.
just so there is some interest, it will let me make sure my rig is a good setup to make more than one.
count me in, any idea of a time frame? money is tight till after vacation.
there is an extreme back order on the shift linkage part from the parts distributor. they said that mean it could be anywhere from within the week to 6 weeks. I am going to order one, to do mine. take pictures, etc.
I'd be down for one also. Are you doing just the linkage?
i will be making the same arm you would get if you ordered the short shift kit from another country. The price of those shifters with shipping price comes out to @ $150-300 us, if you can even find them.
effin a hurry up already :-P i want one for my car as well, i was about to order the one of ebay from SG....i'll pay $100...Quote:
Originally Posted by petrified.rabbit
on a side note, i will have my front struts replaced by the 21st i hope so get at me if you want the stockers
i want the stockers! just let me know when to paypal you, send me a private message with your account name and i will send some money.
ordering shifters monday.
once you order the shifters are you going to make the prototype then and after that we can buy them from you?
it will take me a weekend to figure out the changes need, but i am ordering shifters, so i will have to ready.
i am also thinking of doing this on an exchange basis. to make it faster, cheaper. what do you guys think?
if you could offer both that would work out good, cause im sure some people cant go without their cars for 3-10 days for shipping and such and also would eventually want to return the car to stock for resale?Quote:
Originally Posted by petrified.rabbit
what i was thinking:
Offer the current arm in my car (after i swap in the prototype) as a finished modified/rebuilt part with a core charge, the full $100, ready to ship. When someone buys it, they can then put it on and send me back their old one, once i receive their old one in reusable condition, i will refund them $40. I will then rebuild that one, and convert it to a short shifter, and sell it to the next person interested.
if anyone does not want a rebuilt part, then i will offer them the new modified shifter for the full $100 with no refund.
looking at my shifter and the schematics, the shifter arm is not a wearable item, so it will not be "inferior" or a "scrap" part that you will get. But obviously, if the arm is badly bent or damaged to where i cannot use it, i can not refund the money. But the odds of getting a damaged part is slim.
the only problem with this idea is if people want it right away, and i do not have one ready, they will need to wait for either a return of a used one, or for the dealer to order one, depending on which shifter the chose.
well lets get this on the road cause i have to leave for arkansas by the 30th and i want this! :-P
I'm down for one for sure. I'd do them one at a time, that way your not left hanging and out of pocket.
I'm second in line, tidus10 seams to need one more than I do :lol:
Post pics when you get it sorted.
parts are ordered. so now i just have to wait to receive them.
ever notice that if you buy something from china on ebay the shipping is like $5 but yet if you but from someone in cali its like $11 to ship it to the east coast?Quote:
Originally Posted by petrified.rabbit
:evil: vent :twisted:
if I buy something on ebay from the states, they usually charge me about 5x what the shipping costs.
bought some lights for the dash, was charged over 10$ for shipping, got it here it was like 1.25$...
i hate dealing with other peoples shipping, i personally have a fedex international account.
I can send things dirt cheap, i sent a back seat(both halves) to washington for $50, i shipped a rad support from boston to me in pittsburgh for $32. But when i buy stuff its like $25 bucks for anything off ebay (because ebay doesn't charge into the % of the shipping cost only the sale price). But if fedex isnt cheap enough i through stuff into flat rate boxes..
it should arrive soon? i hope...
i am probably in for the shifter, but i cant go without mine even a day so i'll be one of your xchangers lol. My exp level is such that i'll need some pics too if possible :-p
i will try to include instructions with it, but i never remember to do things like that when i am actually working on the car..
write it on your hand with a pen so you see it all the time
lol
until it gets dirty and he washes his hand....fail :-PQuote:
Originally Posted by trempus
He forgot so say, with a tattoo gun.... Thats the kind of shnit you keep with you :?:
I wrote a DIY, work for everyone?
They finally charged my card, and the parts status says in stock, so hoping they ship them to me ASAP? So i will have 2 available hopefully in the next week or two. (but depends on if they ship)
Let me know when you have one ready.
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Originally Posted by tidus10
lmao
2 shifters just showed up on my porch, so i will have 2 ready to go out monday!
just as im leaving to go out of town for two weeks..Quote:
Originally Posted by petrified.rabbit
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Originally Posted by petrified.rabbit
im down if youll ship to ontario shoot me a quote first and ill rip the aveo apart in the junkyard and send you the shifter
Sorry tidus, couldn't control the timing. It could be waiting for you when you get back though..
And i can ship to canada no problem. I would need a full address to get a shipping idea.
pm sent
Maybe this should be a new thread... but what about the slop? Could you come up with something to improve overall shifter feel? Different bushings or something?
i dont mind discussing it in this thread.
the design of the linkage would allow me to make that section sturdy. based on the design however most of the slop comes from the joint at the input shaft and in the shifter itself.
this shorter throw does remedy a good amount of the slop though. not enough to advertise that. but the looseness while in gear has shrunk considerably.
to make the joint in the input shaft stronger, i would say drill out the pins and install a cnc aluminum inner joint. it is currently expanded plastic. I have an extra one i can look into that.
Pm'd.
You are saying the joint at the shifter, not anywhere in the linkage or where it hooks to the transmission?Quote:
Originally Posted by petrified.rabbit
the plastic "ball" thing at the 90* at the bottom of the shifter in the car.. and the joint at the input shaft of the tranny both allow a good amount of play.
the lever i have works well, but if the plastic cups wear, i can see additional play building. But the pivot of the arm has room for improvement, i would say machine the arm to pt a groove in there, and then replace the two plastic bushings, with metal ball/needle bearings with the correct dimensions, but also to tap the top hole for the clip rod that holes it in, and put a better piece in there that threads into the top..
two modified arms sitting here ready to ship.
is there any pictures to go with this?