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..

 

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...

 

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...

 

i cut around close to 3 inches. Pics of it installed on my webpage

 

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?

 

yeah im tired of this inability to search too.

looks good wariow..ill probably do the same.

 

What are you selling your Pace Setter for?

 

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!


See my homepage for a larger pic

 

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.

 

What did everyone use to cut their shifter with? Just hacksaw to hell??

 

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 ****.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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?