kdholtham

In addition to my new introduction thread, I've installed a TOM's GT Shifter kit in the IS350 - which reverses the + and - for the shifter in S mode.

It's a 10 minute install (less if like me you had the console out to do my clean box install). Basically you unplug the cable at the front of the shifter unit and put the TOM's lead in the middle.

Makes it a lot more intuitive to use the centre stick in S Mode as you now pull back to go up, and push forward to select a lower gear. Paddles still work as before so a nice little mod.

4drScion

i dont get the point of this... is the lexus version backwards of everyone else?

furryjet

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I have the shifter kit too, feels more natural to shift like that. But our "gear limiter" is just way too slow..took all the fun away.

CCM03

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How much was the kit??

JoshIS408

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theres a diy somewhere floating around. u can just switch the wire. no need to buy a kit

kdholtham

That's true, however I don't like cutting wires around the gearbox area, in answer to the previous question the kit was $90 inc shipping from Japan so I figure for something completely reversible (and therefore undectable if I need to take it out for a warranty issue) it suited my needs.

ndk83

totally worthless mod imo.

Rash

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^ Anti-Tom's now?

ndk83

haha nom just anti polimar

TOMS do have some useless products like the GT shifter, and the key holder.
other than that im still a TOMS ****

Kurtz

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Personally I'm not anti-toms per-se, I just find the max-gear-selection feature of so little use that I can't see the value in spending any money to reverse its order.

If it were an actual shifter this'd seem a much more useful mod to me (I had a reverse manual valvebody in my TH400-driven Impala for example)

nonopr01

$90 seems a bit steep for only a cable switch...
But more logical than factory for sure.

iRock

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I didn't kno they were backwards from the factory.... whatever make ya happy I jut hope you take it out if you ever trade it in. The new owner may be a lil confused.

llamaboiz

there is no cutting of wires, the wires to the harness for the shifter are a 'plug into the harness individually' type so all that is required is pulling out 2 wires and swapping them... takes about 2min and anyone can do.

Initial B

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did this mod too.....paid $60 shipped. well worth it - feels so much better now. I really wish all manufacturers did it properly, but I think only BMW, Mazda, and Mitsu have it right. All you gotta do is watch a few minutes of racing to realize it's the 'correct' way to have the sequential shift pattern.

Yes, the manual shift in this car still sux, but it's better than nothing. You couldn't pay me to drive this car if it was an auto with column-shift, for ex.

Kurtz

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It isn't that the manual shift in the 2IS sucks.

It's that it's not a manual shift. At all.

It's a top gear limiter. That's all it does.

It can fool you into thinking it's you doing any shifting under certain circumstances, but it's not. Ever.

It really is not significantly better than a column shifted automatic, because it's still, always, 100% fully automatic.

Moving the stick from D to S-4 is, for all practical purposes, doing exactly the same thing that clicking the "OD Off" button did on a 1986 Tercel. Limiting your fully automatic transmission to only the non-OD gears.

Folks who keep using the paddles or stick thinking they're shifting the car seem to not understand this though.