TOM's GT Shifter Kit
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TOM's GT Shifter Kit
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.
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.
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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.
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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)
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)
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Last edited by Kurtz; 01-24-11 at 01:13 PM.