My brother was driving my car and noticed how "stupid high" my stock shifter was.lol. I asked him if it's worth the money for a sts like Pacesetter or B&M and he said that he can just cut the stock shifter to shorten it, and reweld it back together for me. Oh, he's a mechanic by the way. www.broadwayperformance.com

Has anybody done this? Not that I don't trust my brother, I just wanna hear some replies on this before I go ahead and do it. Thanks
-Paul

 

Why not just cut it and put a aftermarket shift **** on? That way you dont have to weld anything...

 

I want to do the same thing. You should find out so we all can benefit from this...try it out. It may work.

-King Ryan-

 

that I will do. I'll let you guys know how it turns out. That's exactly what I had planned to do. I will put a shiny aftermarket shifknob in place of that black leather thing.
-Paul

 

Take the shift our, cut it down and take it to a machine shop for them to roll a thread into it. $25 tops.

I wouldn't cut and weld it. It's so thick that you'd have to cut it like two pencils tips to get the penetration you need with the weld, then you'd be building it up with wed material. It'd never be as strong again. If I wanted it desperately doing then I'd go for an aftermarket shift **** or have a machien shop cut a matching thread into it - the machine shop option would be most factory and reliable, and probably cheaper $25ish versus a custom shift know from $30-90

 

I paid $15 to do this on my old car(88 prelude). I think I chopped 1.5 or 2". It looks a lot better, feels a little better, but doesn't change the shift length that much since there is no change in the pivot point.

not too familiar with the max shifter but if it is threaded, just have them chop the threaded section and remove the metal below it, and just have the threaded part welded back on. thats what I did and just 15 bucks you can't complain.

 

I had my shifter cut about 1.5 inches. I got an aftermarket momo shift ****. Make sure when purchasing you shift **** that you do not get the ones that are for threaded shifters. You need the universal ones that has the screws. Next you need to epoxy you shift boot to the bottom of the **** or you will have the metal show...

 

have mine cut 2". No problems here.

 

I'm with Scruit - would cut off the top and have it rethreaded @ a machine shop before anything else.

 

Actually cutting the shifter does shorten the shift a little bit. Think of a short and long wrench. On the short wrench, you move it a little bit and the bolt moves, while the long wrench you have a lot more travel to move it to the same spot. Hope that made sense

 

I would say the aftermarket shift **** would be the easiest. The local Nissan dealer here in the Bay Area is selling shortened carbon fiber shift ***** in their parts accessories area.

 

True it does shorten the throw enough that you notice it. It's just not short like an aftermarket STS or anything.