Well, its not all home made but 50% is. I installed the HPAutoworks STS under the hood and then decided to do a little modding inside the car. I cut the shifter down by 2 1/2 inches, also cut the Plastic Reverse piece that slides on the shifter, redrilled a hole in the shifter and the Black Housing for the reverse. Now the shifts are alot Smoother and alot Shorter. Well here are some pics of a really comfortable STS.

 

looks pretty good

 

I wana do the mod also, do you like it. Is it almost like the aftermarket STS?

 

With the Hpautoworks STS and cutting it down, its alot shorter and smoother for sure. I can actually run through the gears incredibly fast now!!

 

thats pretty good lookin...i'm waiting for my stillen short throw to come in

 

looks hot, i guess i got to do that now with my ebay STS. BTW, how did you get the **** to stay put?

 

I cut the shifter down to where its thicker, then what I used was 5 minute epoxy. I drilled out the **** to fit the bigger shaft and then I used epoxy to set it.

 

wow, now that's a short shifter, nice work

 

wow that looks great!! nice boot too (it matches your leather nicely)...if i could do this i would, but knowing me, i'd screw something up!

 

Its so incredibly easy. On a scale of 1 to 10 in the mechanical its a 4

 

thats a sick sig... im glad you didnt put shockwave hahah.

yeah, the install shouldnt be hard (if its like the 3.0).

I was curious, did you use a regular hack saw or dremel with cutting attachment?

 

Heavy Duty Type Dremel with Cutting Attachment.

 

man looks really nice. so the shift **** is glued on now? also did you get the sts2 ?

 

Yes, I have the HPAutoworks on under the hood where the cable connects to the tranny!!! As far as the ****, I epoxied it till I can get a Tap and Die set so I can Thread the shaft.

 

the sts2 consists of 2 parts. one goes under the hood and one attaches where the shifter is inside the car under the shifter trim.

 

I only have the one under the hood, I just looked at the one for inside the car. i didn't realize yopu could use both of them or can't you?

 

Very nice......this is the next thing on my list to do.

 

Still waiting on Dave from ActiveTuning to see if I can put the other part of the STS on the cable connect inside the car.

 

You can do it, but you have to do some mods to the shifter and get rid of the reverse lock out.

 

so does it make it any harder to reach? ie: going into 5th gear or something? im sure it doesn't make THAT much of a difference, but just thought i'd check.....

another stupid question: so the actual metal shifter itself is held on with epoxy? are you worried that the epoxy will come loose at all?

 

no guys, both of the peices can be used if you get the sts2. the one inside just moves the shifter handle up forward more to reduce the throw even more. no extra work is needed. here is a link. http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....32#post3754432

 

I have to get the second piece....I wonder if they sell just the one that goes by the shifter stalk.

 

I have the one thats mounted under the hood which moved my shifter forward, now if I get the one for inside what will that exactly do? Will it move my shifts back? Will it reduce the throw more?

 

the one inside is supposed to center the shifter in the middle.

 

Heres the one I want to add for the shifter inside the car. I don't mind that its pushed forward, but it would be nice to have it at its normal position.

 

thats pretty sweet. i did that to my old 99 and it was amazing. to bad i have auto now oh well good job though

 

you have any top views of the STS?? that looks sick... did you adjust your clutch length also??

 

No top views, will have to take a few pictures of that. Plus I need to cut and restitch the leather boot. The boot was made for the tall Maxima Shifter, now that its about 2 -2 1/2 inches lower I need to shorten up the leather.

 

Some more pics from the rear, couldn't take any today as I never made it out of thouse do to the rain.

 

hey, sorry to bring up such an old thread, but is this really true? i was sort of confused reading over the rest of the thread about whether or not my question was answered but i just wanted to make sure...i finally mustered up the courage to get the 2 piece STS, and i just don't want it to effect anything besides the throw and feel of the shifter, especially something like the reverse lockout...

 

i got the 2 piece sts off ebay for $150 and i installed both pieces, and didnt mod anything. reverse lockout is still intact

 

Well, I decided to cut down the shifter as far as it would go. Heres the outcome, I had to get rid of the Nissan Shifter do to it not being big enough inside the **** to go over the shifter itself.
Heres the pics.

 

 

Does the reverse lock still work or is it eliminated?

 

Still works, I had to cut that also and then epoxy it back together!!!

 

when you cut it, did you rethread it w/ the OEM shift ****? i got a 20th shift **** and i wanna cut mine shorter but still keep the shift ****.

 

i'm gonna do that, as soon as i get a stick...

 

I liked it before the second cut - now it's incredibly short and seems out of proportion.. maybe if there was a different top you could put on.. one that isn't so round? It just seems REALLY short. just my opinion

 

The STS doesnt work on 2005 maxs and above

 

i would love to see a step by step how to for this, im sure many would benefit from it