Has anyone ever tried to replace the ugly black shift plate on automatics with one of the 5th gens metal-type plate??
If you don't know what piece I'm talking about, it's the black piece that covers the P-R-N-D-2-1 on the automatic shifter ****.

Would love to be able to replace that thing or could just do a 5spd conversion...

 

Forget about doing anything to your automagic just save up and do a
5spd conversion. Im planning to convert mine next summer.

 

i asked this sometime last year...i think someone pointed out that they wouldn't match up for some reason. sorry no details, only that it wouldn't work, or wouldn't be too easy to do.

 

I was hoping somebody might have done a mod like this to do away with the ugly black plate.

 

put a shift boot on it

 

You mean like a leather 5spd boot?

Nah, that's kinda wannabe-ish and

 

well...... like you said in your first post, do a 5speed conversion

 

I'd love to but....mucho dinero!!

 

in ur first post u said "could just do a 5 spd conversion" so he assumed you had the funds to do that, if nothing else how about you try to fab something to replaced the shift plate, its not that hard and im sure you could come up with something

 

Yeah I know I said that in my first post...not really a funds thing but more of a pain in the a$$ I would think. I probably would look into buying a 5spd rather than going through a conversion.

I could look into trying to fab something, but that wasn't really what I asked in my "original" post that you obviously read so carefully....but thanks for being so quick to jump down my throat

 

lol didnt mean for it to sound harsh, cuz it definately wasn't meant that way, but there is nothing i've seen out there than anyone has done with the shift plate... not yet at least

 

no problem - When I have some time, maybe I'll look into coming up with some custom thingamajiggy...if I do than I'll def post some pics.

 

something like this?

http://www.custommaxima.com/AluminumDashKits.php

 

I was actually wanting to replace the black plastic shift plate. That aluminum trim is surrounding it.