Well a while ago I posted asking about short shifters and wasn't sure what would be best for me. Well last night I was hanging out at my friends house and he came out and gave me an early christmas gift.....stillen short throw shifter. The quality of the shifter looks great and the spacing for the shifts seems to be very tight. When I install I'll write a review on it but I just wanted some feedback from the people who have the stillen short throw shifter. I appreciate all responses.

Thanks,
Diego

 

yaaaay! our cars are even more twin-ish

I just installed a SMC shifter a friend gave me ()

I didnt adjust it at all, I just left it at where it was when I got it. At first I didnt really like it, but now I'm used to it. I was having troubles finding the gears at first, now its pretty easy. The height is good too, and it made the tranny feel much tighter. I also made a new shift boot (well my Mom helped )because my stock one was really really bad (burned and such).

Again, Sweet!! Now I just need some HIDs and wheels like yours (but i cant do that because of 300zx brakes )

 

Thanks twin . Yeah I am really looking forward to putting this on and on the same day i'll be putting the BlemCo. Stage II lower tie bar so hopefully its a good day with mods and stuff. So probably next sunday i'll be going to the shop to have those things installed and having an oil change. thanks for the positive feedback on your short throw shifter once again.

 

If you want a new shift boot, now is the time to replace it aswell!

I'm not sure if you can tell or not, but heres what mine looks like from the side:
http://mrgone.homeip.net/images/92Ma...t/PC140392.jpg

Heres one more of the boot:
http://mrgone.homeip.net/images/92Ma...t/PC140388.jpg
It's kind of big though, and we made it 1" shofter than stock lol. no biggy though its better than having the cover boot thing over my stock one (my stock one was in really really bad shape as I was saying).

Dont mean to go OT in your thread, but I feel like working on my car today, so I'm probably going to replace the fuel filter, reseal the valve cover (I think its leaking some oil), and I might swap intake manifolds for my old auto one (I need to find some porting drums ).

 

Man I gotta find friends like that!

 

Yes I am very fortunate to have friends like that, they always take care of me but I do give back also. Well my shift boot is practically new, I condition it and there are no cracks and stuff. If the bag looks weird then I'll look into having you Mr. Gone making me a bag .

 

cool now mabey you can keep up

 

Diego are you going to take that???

 

he'll probably come back with some comment about how I copy him and ill end up with the stillen sts eventually too lol

 

I've thought of gettin one but haven't had the time or money... 'til I get mine i cut the pole to what used to look like an umbrella.

 

ive got the short thorw adjustable. works great at about 45-50 percent shorter than stock.

 

yea i know the shortest setting is too hard to shift it literally shifts it TOO FAST the tranny grinds it dosent have a chance to syncro so where i have it is perfect, oh and it dosent rest on the cat thanks to my hammer...j/k it sits right above it

 

Well here's the thing the short throw shifter doesn't look like it has adjustments its only going to work one way. Like I don't think there is a height setting its just a throw adjuster, well i'll take pics of comparing the stock unit with the new unit and take pics of the new unit in the car comparing it to the old shifter unit in the car.

Gjohnson, Jason knows who's boss when it comes to our cars

 

nice now i am the only one left with the mac truck shift.. oh wait joe has one too nice job deigo, have fun playing with your shifter.

 

Mack trucks shifters are teh suck

 

mack truckers unite

 

My stillen shifter was no shorter in height then the stock one but there is 2 inch drop in the shift throw. The stock shifter is 5 inches the stillen is 3 inches. For a test i cut my stock down about 3inches and i love it! Im gunna do the same to my Stillen sooner or later.

 

Diego- is it on yet? Also whats the bag your talking about?

KLoWn- hahah

Am I a ricer if I have a STS?

 

I think he means shift boot

 

Let us know how you like it. I'm loving my Pacesetter, just have to set it shorter now....



Here's my shift boot, stock shifter tho.

 

Doesn't the stock shifter look like a baseball that got hit too hard?

 

Yes as soon as it goes on which I think is not later than next Suday I will write a review.

 

glad were in agreement

 

hahah,

 

...

 

In your dreams Jason, never will you be as original as I am, if I recall I am still the one with the original motor Oh yeah today I hit 90,000 miles boys, I'm only 100,000 away from Jason

 

my motor is original, just not to my car lol, wow 90k your car is getting old, cant wait till you start gettng all those 100k plus problems

just hurry up and put in the shifter so I can test it out already.

 

Now thats

 

Sure thing Jason you can drive it but I don't know about Joe, he usually makes an attempt to jump in and drive not just my car but every 3rd gen he can get his hands on.

 

yea im a 3rd gen ***** only because mine is like shiet right now

 

done yet?

 

No not yet twin, looks like Sunday for sure I called my mechanic and he said that there shouldn't be a problem in getting it done by then yay!

 

sad but true


hrrm jason had fun chiping my 17in today

its on video

 

that clutch better be broken in

 

I might have, just slightly done a small burn out and chirpped 1-2 with a friend in the car when I had under 50 miles on the clutch (I think, I cant remember the exact mileage). It never slipped at all during the break in.

 

its been broken in for a while now, dont worry we know better.

 

Yea we're the guys with the messed up pressure plate, I still point my finger at Jeff . Anywayz yea I think Jason and Izzy have a good judgement of when its time to mess around with a clutch, not like take a 3rd gen with a new clutch in it and grind while shifting!

 

hahaha yes! mine is fixed now, i just got back from the shop

and the problem is/was actually not the clutch..

 

what was the problem?


Diego- installed yet?

 

lol sunday big guy