What price are they!

 

i got mine for $60. if you cant find one around that price, lemme know, you can send me the money and i'll get ya one.

 

$60???? You mean not the short throw, just the stick it self is shorter right? Theres only two companies that make the real Short throw shifter. One of them is Stillen and the other I believe summit sells, but I wuoldnt trust them. The Stillen retail is $259.

 

If you want the Stillen Short shifter, Im an authorized dealer for Stillen, I can get you for you cheap, email me.

 

why would you not trust summit?? its a great company........

 

Unless you can get that thing for under half price, that's pretty steep. I wouldn't pay over $80 for a STS.

 

whats this? hehe...i told you to get an sts when you first bought the car and you were all against it because you liked the height...

 

pacesetter makes one for 55 bucks. you can get it at www.nopi.com

 

I'm a tard - What does the STS do for the car and what does it improve? I drive an Automatic SE, could I use a short throw shifter?

 

sorry bro, it's for manual transmissions. it shortens the length of how far you have to move the shifter to get into gear.

 

its the pacesetter(SMC) quikshift.

 

has the smc short throw for like $110 I think and its fully
adjustible from stock hieght down to 2.5" and it shortens
the throw. i think those other ones are just hieght.


CustomMaxima.com

 

i was told pacesetter's was adjustable. . . . i cut about 3-4 inches of my stock shifter, and put a nice shift **** on it, and i personally don't think i need a short shifter. i'm very pleased with the results too. anything's better than that 18 wheeler shifter it comes with stock. my buddy took the adjustable short shifter and put it on, then cut that. but he's got a 4th gen, and it shifts alot nicer than my 3rd gen. mine's so stiff.. .

 

Since you are an authorized dealer for Stillen..

Do you know if they still have a FTSB for a 3rd gen with a VE engine? If so, how much do they run?

 

from what i hear, you have to mod it. i have an older style ftsb so it fits on my VE.

 

What is the diff between the older style and the newer FTSB from Coutesy Nissan? Anyone here knows?

I was hoping the ones from custommaxima would fit but it does not.

 

the older ones like i have are oval shaped, the new ones are round. here's a pic. it's of my intake, but you can see my ftsb.

 

i have the pacesetter(just not installed yet..) and it is adjustable.

 

Your FTSB looks very similiar to the ones from custommaxima. The only difference is the bend you got close to the hinge point.

Any chance can you give me a close-up pick of the bend area?

 

yeah bud, when my roommmate gets back later, i'll use his digital cam.

 

How much you want Pat

 

your exhaust sounds mighty nice
seriously though, if you send me the money, i'll get you one and ship it to ya.

 

what are you talking about?

 

jon (jdwyer) is saying he wants my short throw shifter. unless i'm missing something.

 

Can't you just cut the org. shifter down a couple of inches? Or would that mess things up?

 

i found another company that makes em for 4th gens. . . only 30 bucks. that would be great to mod cause even if you screw it up it was cheap. shoot, i'll find it. and post it

 

I have the Pacesetter Short Throw Shifter and in its lowest setting it hits the heat shield of the catylitic converter. Right now, it is just about the same as my stock shifter was so I am not really getting any benefits from it. In order to get a shorter shift and stick height you need to cut the heat shield to allow for the shifter to have clearance. I haven't done this yet, but just wanted to let you know before anyone attemped to install it and then realized that they would have to do some cutting to get any benefits from this shifter.

 

Thanks. Now I am trying to figure out whether to modify this FTSB from custommaxima or just send it back to get my refund.

 

refund! supposedly that cheap one will fit! oh, yeah, you sometimes gotta bang the top of your Cat to get the short throw to fit as well.

 

Look in the JC Whitney Sport Compact catalog an there is a Pacesetter shifter in there for $60 or go online and get it. As for the Stillen Shifter it is not that much shorter Ive seen it and I wouldnt buy because it will still be tall like a john deer shifter.

 

nopi is 56 for the pacesetter.

 

Can't you just cut the orginal shifter down a couple of inches? Or would that mess things up?

 

THis has been discussed before and it will work but you need a aftermarket shiftknob. I was going to do it a while back but people say its not the same as getting one aftermarket.

 

that's what i did, it helped ALOT, If you ahve a tap and die and a grinder, you can use your original shift ****, i just cut mine WAY down (prolly 5 inches) and put a **** with allen key screws on. it works great. I'll take a pic with the digital cam if anyone wants to see. phil96se put the short shifter on and then cut that down too. personally i think that's the way to go, and it's probably what i'm gonna do.

 

Pickwick - in regards to cutting the shifter as opposed to getting a STS
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?threadid=65139
(by searching for "cutting shifter")

I'd recommend just spending the $50-70 to get the STS. I have the pacesetter unit (got it new from ebay a while back). I like the feel a lot more than the stock unit, although the short shifter does feel a little bit notchier but that's expected from any STS. I just reused the stock **** on mine and it screws on fine. Also, the shifter is adjustable (you have to take it all the way out though ) and I have mine on the lowest setting. Also, this way you dont have to worry about screwing up your stock shifter and can return it to stock if you need to.
Install is pretty easy: Jack up front end. Take off the heat shield above the catalytic converter (wait until the car cools down so you dont keep burning yourself on the cat). If you can get the cat off, that would be a big help, but I couldn't because the bolts were pretty rusted so I was able to work around it and just remove the bolts on the rubber hangers that hold the cat up adn that gives you enough room to slide the heat shield off and work in there.
From the inside, pop off the shifter surround trim - just reach in and pull at the bottom edge and it'll pop out. Take off shift **** - it will unscrew with some force so be patient. Remove rubber boot at the bottom of the shifter. From there you will see which bolts you need to take off to get the thing out. If you get stuck, let me know and I'll get more specific

buy it!

 

get it and cut it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Here's another option, which is better than cutting, and cheaper than buying the STS.... (i.e. FREE!)

I discovered this after purchasing an STS and pulled my stock shifter off.. they're THE SAME LENGTH!! the only difference is the bend in the shifter is in a slightly different place, and the pivot ball is moved up (in reference to the stock shifter), so the lever end of it will move more with less movement from the shifter **** end.

Now.. how to do it..
remove your stock shifter from the car.. follow craig's post on that..
NOw that you've got the stock one off, you'll see a plastic pivot ball on it near the bottom.. clamp the bottom of the shifter in a vice, and the plastic ball in some vice grips.. twist and pull and grunt and curse until you've moved the ball up to just before the bend in the shifter.. this will be just above the STS location, so it'll be a tad shorter than the STS.

re-install your stock shifter in place, and see if you like the shorter throws on the shifter... if not, now's the time to adjust it more/less to your preferences. when you're satisfied there, now take the heat shield on your cat and bang a big dent in the top (just below the shifter)...

put the shield back on the car and check the clearance by trying to shift through all gears. .. I had to pull it off and "adjust" it several times before I got it right.. it still rubs a bit, but it's not bad at all. if you don't modify the heat shield, you won't be able to move the shifter...

once you get that done, put the cat and heat shield back on, and you're done.. total time is about 1/5 hours, giving that it'll take you 30 minutes to "adjust" the heat shield correctly.

 

wow, i'm so glad you posted this now, . . . AND NOT BEFORE i cut my stock shifter!!!!!!!!! lol, can you move the grommet ont he shortshifter?

 

Matt, I'm surprised the STS was the same length
my Pacesetter was 1.75 inches shorter (and can be made a few inches shorter than that because it has another set of threads lower on the stick so you can cut it that much lower)

everyone else, check out this pic for lots of measurements and nissan part numbers for other parts you will need (that were included with my shifter when I bought it)

http://www.geocities.com/bracecraig/maxima/new/ and choose shifter.jpg
I would attach it, but it's too big so the forum wont let me

I currently have my shifter ball at the lowest setting but have NOT cut it to the lower threads and it still makes quite a difference

 

Craig,
Are you able to adjust the shifter to its lowest setting? If so how much did you have to bang in your heat shield? I am gonna have to do this soon because I am not getting full use of my short shifter, and we all know there is nothing worse then getting a mod and not getting any real results from it (besides "mental horsepower" like my Nismo Shoulder Pads that added a healthy 35 horses). But yeah I was just curious how much "adjusting" to the heat shield was neccessary. Thanks!
-Adam