Well the shifter somes in today. i'm going to try to get home early and start taking the car apart. Will have updates later on tonight.

 

 

Who has a price on the SE-R shifter?

 

5 or 6 posts up...

 

RESULTS? <dumb 10 char>

 

dave b told me 2 guys have em,

b4 we all jump the gun, lets let sr20 find out if it works.

Though according to what i hear, there is a high chance of success : ]

 

Thanks I missed that

 

Ok guys. Well i got the 2005 altima se-r sts. Well. Here is the low down. The shifter is a lot cheaper design than ours. You will see in the pics below. The shifter actuall fit in the holes with just slight bending of the base screws of about 0.5 mm on each side. Ok it fit. Now the problem is that the shifter cables did not fit the same. The altima shifter is about an inch longer. Solved this problem by just pushing the cables back lightly. until the cables fit in the appropriate holes and clamped (this is hard to explain but when u see the shifter u will see. Well got it installed. Problem is. The throw IS EXACTLY the same as our maximas... I measured it and it came to about 4 inches each. It isnt worth getting this so I am waiting for someone else to design a sts for our car. A plus of this shifter is that the 2nd to third was more defined. It also moved the shifter a lot more foward. I can only put one and a half fingers inbetween the shift **** and the dash

Pics

 

 

that sucks!

 

any pics of it put back together? with boot and all?

 

Nah. if you look the alti shifter assembly it has a piece of it sticking out where you can not put the cover back on... unless you cut it off. Which i didnt want to do after testing the shifter out.

 

dont cry yet, somethings not right... I wil get mine soon and *hopefully* offer better results...

 

Good luck sr20. It's not a hard install. Be careful with the shifter cables when u push them back to not kink them, but u probably already knew that. Let me know what you find. PM if you have any ideas or what else.

 

I get all hyped up.... just to be let down again SR20 --- perform some type of magic or something to make this thing work like a STS!

 

Received another email update:

 

"We should be able to have something released shortly after SEMA."


I don't know, but if his interest or excitement about the issue (and effort put into r&D) can be really gauged by this email, i think their STS may suck.


I don't want "something" you know, why must it be that it's like we can tak whatever we can get? If the STS sux, i'm not buying it, hell i don't even need one that bad, i got that new clutch now, that's a real mod ; )

If people just need "something", hell why dont you go and just hack off a few inches off yer shifter like a few others have. (yay)

 

Well, if it sucks, then no one else will buy it once word of mouth get's out - this company has been pretty responsive to our emails and says that they will develop an STS for us - also, you left out this part:
They've already said that due to our emails, they've moved up the schedule for developing the STS, but it's not practical to expect them to drop all they're doing because they've received ~40 emails.

As for their quality, if you look at their website, their stuff looks pretty good to me. Also, Cattman is the one who initially approached this company with the thought of having them develop the STS - at last year's SEMA show - I'm sure he had plenty of opportunity to look at their goods and check out the quality. I doubt he would have approached them if their stuff was ****.

 

Oh yeah, doing this doesn't give you a Short Throw Shifter - it gives you a Short Shifter.

The actual throw between gears will be as long as they ever were, but now you've risked screwing up your shifter cuz you chopped up the shaft...

 

i know man, total sarcasm right there ; )

no doubts of the quality in general, just that email looked a bit flaky to me at first sight, maybe i was looking between the lines.

 

Oh...

 

I suppose that was a poor choice of words, my mistake. We use the utmost care in designing all of our products and take a great deal of pride in what we finally send to market. If anything, given the demand we've had for this part from you all we'll be taking extra care to ensure we release the best shifter possible.

Thanks for all you patience and I assure you that our product will be worth the wait.

Take care,

Karel
TWM

 

please take no insult.

I was just being a jerk, i take you and yer efforts seriously. Don't be discouraged by my comments, I as well as many of us really want this to happen.


You got my vote : ]

 

Dang, I leave the forums for a few months and look what I miss. Any way I can help w/ this?

 

Hello, I'm a virgin........first post that is I also sent the email about the STS, too bad it's still not developed

 

send the email.

 

No worries, it was a legitimate concern.

Thanks for your support!

 

Checking in. I have decided that I need one of these because it will put less torque on the cable support bracked on the transmission which I keep breaking.

 

Welcome to our endeavor.

 

Well SEMA will be over this week so hopefully we will get an answer back soon. I want a STS so bad......

 

You can count me in for one when they are produced for sure. I check this thread like every 2 days to see if I can get one yet.

 

SSR Engineering just got a CNC machine and listed a SHORT SHIFTER as something they can make. Post in their thread and show your interest!

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....8&page=1&pp=30

 

Wow, alot of interest here, I skipped the sticky on accident. We will be more then happy to make an STS for you guys

We will need a car in about a week or so, the turn around time will be extremely fast, so if any of you are located in San Diego then shoot me a PM and I'll get you setup with an appointment.

 

Thanks, guys!! That's great news. Sorry I don't live close to San Diego....

 

FINALLY!!!!!!!!! Thanks

 

Albert, not to put a damper on the STS, but I have a feeling it's not going to be that easy. If it was, Stillen, B&M or one of the other Maxima suppliers probably would have done it already.

The 2002/2003 6-speed is Cable actuated - not Rod actuated (like the 2000/2001's are) which probably adds a level of difficulty to the project.

I may be wrong, but that's my $0.02... Others with more knowledge, please speak up...

PS - I'll talk to Tim about it Saturday when I visit... You did let him know I'm coming I hope...? (HNDA ETR => Roy)

 

i really hope this happens before spring

 

It should happen sometime this next month.

 

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I am also very interested...been looking for one for a while.