hi has anone ever made or found a shorter automatic shifter? cuasei want to put a radio in my single din slot and pu tmonitor in but its annoying cuase the shifter blocks the single din slot.. and its pissing me off...

someone was trying ot make a gated shifter fo the 4th gen.. never found out how that went...

if anyone knows what happneed to it it let me know. i searched but didnt find anything... was the trhread removed..?

 

That would be a no sir...not needed

 

You can remove your stock auto shifter and then cut the shifter pipe and rod inside down to the level you want. Then you can put a shorter **** on it. I put an alum. ball type shifter that you push down to release the shift lock. It only sits about 2 inches high. I had to run the OD wires to a button that I installed by the steering wheel.

I'll post pics of the setup in the next day or so.

 

i'd like to see pics of this how did you get the ball **** to be push down this seems like it would look good thanks

 

in to see pics later..

 

would like t see pics...... also how did you get that annoying plastic piece at the top of the rod off?

 

Was a pretty easy job, just remove the stock shifter and hack up that pipe in the middle. You'll also need to remove the plastic **** and shorten the inner rod too.

 

You don't really have to get the plastic piece off if you're going to cut the rod anyways. But to remove it I just used a couple of vise grips, one holding the rod and one twisting the plastic peice. The rod ended up snapping right below the plastic peice. Then I used a Sawz-All to cut the pipe (being careful not to cut the inner rod) and then I cut the inner rod about an inch or so higher than the pipe.

I'm still waiting on the **** to be delivered. So for now I'm just driving around with the cut metal rod.

I'll post pics when the **** arrives.

 

I did something very similar. But rather than shorten the rod I shortened the shift ****. I made the **** out steel so it would be heavy enough to stay down over bumps. It was secured in no way other than its weight and a little bit of grease. To shift I just pushed down on the **** and it contacted the inner rod. I'm glad I don't have to deal with it now but it worked for a while. Overall my shifter was about two inches shorter than that huge stock one or even the Levoc ****.

 

I shorten mine a tad to fit the Celica GT oem shift **** on. Still sit kinda high but I don't mind it too much.

 

I just installed a monitor and dvd player the same way. the shifter is not in the way of the CD's if that's what you mean.

 

You don't need to shorten the shifter to use/put a Radio in the Single DIN. It's easily attained from Park as well as any other gear, but if you wanna go with a Levoc then yeah, it wouldn't look right if it wasn't cut down.

 

love that ball type shifer. it would be great to post some pic.

 

yea i kno it works fine without shortening .. then agian my headlights worked fine.. before i stuffed all that other crapp intehre.. but the thing is its annoying cuase the shifter sits higher than the radio.. and i want to put it low... LOwer thant hte radio.. then i will be installing the prnd123 style cluster.. and cover the little signs on the shifter with a leather type boot covering like the manual covering... (sort of BMWish)


PS that shifter with the silver trigger on top is the only one available? or is there any other woosish one..? please let me know... thanks


PS .. maxmutes man thats wrong to parking in handicapped...

 

This is what I was talking about earlier. It is certainly shorter than stock and I didn't even cut it down. Thank god I got rid of that god aweful auto. The switch in front of the cup holders is the OD. Now I gotta figure out what to do with it.

 

Wow Broaner, you really wanted to be a manual. Had the manual boot and **** on your auto. Looked good though. I think my cut **** came out ok, pics below.

 

Here are the pics of the ****, it finally came in today and I got it installed in about an hour. I had to keep getting the Sawz-All out and shortening the pipe to get it to the right height. I think I got it as low and it will go. When depressed the **** sits right above the plastic trim piece.

yeah, I know I have to clean, I have metal shaving everywhere. I was lazy and didn't use a towel to cover things up this time.






and here is where I stuck the OD button

 

wow that looks really good

so that is basically a manual **** then? and when you press it down it shifts like an acura auto? i think im gonna have to do this it looks great

nice work

 

I like the way it turned out. It makes me want to do mine.

 

Nope, it's an auto ****, because it has a spring in it and a special sleeve that screws into the pipe. Then you just push the top down about a half inch to shift. Here is the **** I got of ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...e=STRK:MEWN:IT Seems to be of decent quality.

 

can you accidentally shift to reverse from drive gear? or do you have to press down to shift to reverse?

 

It's behaves exactly like the stock shifter on an auto. The shift lock works as before so you can't accidentally throw your car into reverse, unless you were to push the ball down. It's perfectly safe.

 

nice job ilacuss. do you have a write up for this?

 

It's not hard. I'll try to explain

1. buy auto shifter of your choice. Ebay's a cheap place or your local speed shop. See ball **** pic I posted above
2. remove trim around stock shifter. Butter knife works well to pry off trim piece.
3. unplug and remove cig lighter and ashtray and pull out.
4. remove two screws in front of center console and then the two screws in the back of the console. Then pull entire console out
5. remove two screws on back of stock auto shifter ****.
6. remove the PNRD21 trim piece that you can now get to after removing center console.
7. find the two wires that connect to your OD switch in stock shifter and cut them. Now you should be able to remove your stock auto ****.
8. once **** is removed you'll have to use a hack saw or sawz-all or maybe a dremel to cut the pipe down to the level you want. I cut mine down a little by little to get the height just were I wanted it. I ended up with the pipe being about an 2 long and the center rod inside the pipe being about 2.5 inches long. But depending on what **** you go with these measurements will change.
9. install new **** sleeve with provided allen wrench screws to height desired and then screw on the top half of your ball ****.
10. now if you've cut everything correctly, when you push the ball down a half inch or so it will release the shift lock and you can move the shifter as you did before with the button on the left of the stock shifter.
11. now you'll have to extend the OD wires that you cut and wire it up to a switch somewhere in your console or on your dash.

That should be it, all in all it's pretty simple.
let me know if you have any questions or need any detailed pics.

ila

 

Even with the stock situation the shifter can physically go into reverse. There is no need to worry if you are doing 25+MPH though. The moment the shifter goes into reverse or park the car will shutoff. It will give you time to pull the shifter back. If you begin to slow down though the tranny brake will engage and click like none other. Then you've got serious trouble because at some speed it will catch and you'll be thrown forward and your tranny will be dead. I've never experienced that last bit but that is basically what would happen.

 

Broaner, good info to know. thanks.

ilacuss, sounds like a good direction. thanks.
i like the current height. am i require to cut the pipe?

 

If you want to go back to the stock **** someday then I wouldn't cut the height of the pipe. Just remove the old **** and replace it with the aftermarket one.

 

thanks buddy.

 

what is the diameter of the rod....i see that the link takes you to ***** that have a inner diameter of 15 mm. is this the correct ****?

thanks

 

The outer pipe diameter is about 1/2 inch or 12.7mm so there is a little space with the shifter in the link....but it's no big deal as you can tighten it up real snug with the 3 screws provided.

 

I drilled out my **** with a 9/16ths bit. It fit very snugly with a bit of grease in there to keep it smooth.

 

i love it soon as it will get warm outside i am doing it but do they have one with wood ?

 

... =( no i was searching for a wood one on ebay... they didnt have for the auto.. bastards....

 

maybe they will have one later coz i am not doing it till like sumer so i'll wait a lil

 

It would be nearly impossible to got one that matched the stock wood anyway. I suggest staying with something metal, CF or rubber for this reason.

 

so i'll get tha crome one

 

think it would look good to paint the exposed rod i.e. like black or maybe silver? would it be hard to do?

 

I thought about painting the rod or putting some electrical tape around it. It would be easy to do, but honestly you never see the rod from the angle the pics were taken. The rod isn't even noticeable from a normal driving height. I suppose if you were laying down in the back seat it might be visible, but how often does that happen?. So I didn't bother painting it.

 

pretty often


ok thanks for the input ill post pics when i do mine but i dont think it will be for a few weeks when it gets a little warmer

 

dammm it.. pavelsmax beat me to it... hehehe

and while im sleeping int eh car at school...

hmm wow ii think eveyrboyd is gonna do this mod... yea... im thinking or you can put that shinly tape arpound the rod.. theres that type of chrome tape.. u knwo what im talking about...