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Old 04-22-2004, 11:47 AM
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for those who cut their OEM shifter 5speed

sup guys.. who has cut their oem shifter.. i need to raise money to fix my broken axcel bracket.. so im a try to sell my pacesetter sts and just cut my oem shifter.. how many inches do i cut it? hows it feel.. and anypics? i was thinking 2.5 inches. possibly 3.. is that too much. the tranny shop guys says hes cut and weld it for 10 bucks..
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If we say an inch will you take a mile? In that case 1 or 2 inches, I really wish we could use the F-in search function...
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why dont you just take it off completely? hehe jk...

talk to Arafio, he cut his B&M short shifter like an extra 1 or 2 inches i think... you might wana ask him...
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i cut around close to 3 inches. Pics of it installed on my webpage
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I cut 1.5in off. Pics are on my cardomain. wariow, nice ****....I got the same one Is it a lot harder shifting with it cut 3in?
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yeah im tired of this inability to search too.

looks good wariow..ill probably do the same.
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Old 04-22-2004, 03:10 PM
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What are you selling your Pace Setter for?
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Old 04-22-2004, 03:10 PM
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How much to cut off is purely based on your personal taste, if you are adding a threadless **** you can just cut it yourself no need for welding the thread back on. I cut mine bit by bit a total of three times (approx 2") and changed the **** twice (some ***** longer than others). The **** in the pic is a Momo carbon which was much taller than my previous aftermarket one so I had to cut off a little more to get the height I liked. Better to cut off too little and cut again than to cut too much!


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Old 04-22-2004, 04:36 PM
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I cut mine down. it is one of the free mods. looks alot mroe cleaner and shifts feel more solid. I like it alot. i cut mine about 2-3 inches.

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What did everyone use to cut their shifter with? Just hacksaw to hell??
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Old 04-22-2004, 04:54 PM
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hell yea...i left mine in the car and ut the hell out of it. dremaled the knubbs that hold the shiftboot up and slapped on my new ****.
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I put the stick through the bottom of a plastic bag to catch all the shavings and used a dremel with a cutting disk. Pics are on my cardomain.
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Old 04-22-2004, 07:08 PM
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Cutting the stock shifter doesn't give it shorter throws, just so some of you know.

Damn, some of you need to make the freaking sigs smaller.
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Old 04-22-2004, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by JeEvE
I put the stick through the bottom of a plastic bag to catch all the shavings and used a dremel with a cutting disk. Pics are on my cardomain.
Whao Jeeve, we have the same fricking car! 98 black max with Same shift ****, cut shifter, same cluster bulbs, same white led door switches. I have the ru2080 or something K&N air filter. When I was looking at your page, I thought it was my car at first. Isn't white so much better than blue?
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Old 04-22-2004, 09:05 PM
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sup guys.. who has cut their oem shifter.. i need to raise money to fix my broken axcel bracket.. so im a try to sell my pacesetter sts and just cut my oem shifter.. how many inches do i cut it? hows it feel.. and anypics? i was thinking 2.5 inches. possibly 3.. is that too much. the tranny shop guys says hes cut and weld it for 10 bucks..
I did that and it looks awesome. I don't understand why you say "weld"? There's nothing to weld when shortening the shift lever.

Also, $10? It will take YOU at most 25 minutes, provided you can get your hands on:

1) a metal saw

2) a metal grinder of some sort (I did it with a manual grinder, more precise than an electric)

...after that, all you do is forcefully screw the stock shift **** back onto the newly-grinded shift lever. Some think one ought to drill inside the OEM ****, but that's not true. The inner plastic (or whatever it is) is soft enough and should screw on flawlessly. Mine sits so tight that I actually tried to yank it off with all might and couldn't.
 
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screw on without the thread? that possible?..so u just kidna rammed it in? doesn that inflate the **** and make it bulge out? got pics?
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