My Custom Manual Style Shifter!!
#4
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You're gonna get a wide range of opinions... I give you props for ambition, but it looks kind of goofy, IMO. Being off center is tough to do anything about, unfortunately. As long as the gear indicator lights on your dash work, I guess there's no harm in doing away with them alongside the stock shifter. At least this way, you're not tied to a poorly designed (wear-wise) shift ****.
I assume the toggle switch is for the Power/Normal button? At least replace that with a nicer looking rocker switch. What are you doing for an overdrive button? Is the gear release permanently disabled, or do you have to depress something?
It would look a little better if you wrapped some foam around the shifter to puff up the leather boot. It looks a bit sunken as is.
I assume the toggle switch is for the Power/Normal button? At least replace that with a nicer looking rocker switch. What are you doing for an overdrive button? Is the gear release permanently disabled, or do you have to depress something?
It would look a little better if you wrapped some foam around the shifter to puff up the leather boot. It looks a bit sunken as is.
#5
Thanks. While stock does look nice, I wanted the look and feel of a manual, which has a 100% success rate so far with anyone who has seen my car
You're gonna get a wide range of opinions... I give you props for ambition, but it looks kind of goofy, IMO. Being off center is tough to do anything about, unfortunately. As long as the gear indicator lights on your dash work, I guess there's no harm in doing away with them alongside the stock shifter. At least this way, you're not tied to a poorly designed (wear-wise) shift ****.
I assume the toggle switch is for the Power/Normal button? At least replace that with a nicer looking rocker switch. What are you doing for an overdrive button? Is the gear release permanently disabled, or do you have to depress something?
It would look a little better if you wrapped some foam around the shifter to puff up the leather boot. It looks a bit sunken as is.
I assume the toggle switch is for the Power/Normal button? At least replace that with a nicer looking rocker switch. What are you doing for an overdrive button? Is the gear release permanently disabled, or do you have to depress something?
It would look a little better if you wrapped some foam around the shifter to puff up the leather boot. It looks a bit sunken as is.
The toggle switch is for suprastick manual mode. I was going to go with paddles, but I am a hand-at-12:00 kind of driver, and this was what I just came up with. Kind of sticks out, I know, but maybe in the future I will come up with something else.
The overdrive button I just have jumpered to always have it enabled, since I am controlling the gears anyway, and I only go into 4th when I want to. But, if somebody else wanted to do this and didn't have a transmission controller, then they could just relocate a toggle switch somewhere.
The gear release is permanently disabled
#6
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Nice manumatic!!!
I'm guessing everyone who goes this way ends up picking up a manual trany down the road and doing complete swap like myself , and longest patience is getting the right r154 for the right price
Now back to the subject!!
It looks very nice,I love it because I have one, I just would love it more if I was banging gears and looks more straight up like manual
Believe me guys there is nothing like it
Op:
If no one knows the shift pattern, it's hard to steal your car ( can't shift)
I also didn't bother with the switch and left everything stock and tucked it under the cup holder for easy access, soon I'll extend it into the center console for the clean looks
I'm guessing everyone who goes this way ends up picking up a manual trany down the road and doing complete swap like myself , and longest patience is getting the right r154 for the right price
Now back to the subject!!
It looks very nice,I love it because I have one, I just would love it more if I was banging gears and looks more straight up like manual
Believe me guys there is nothing like it
Op:
If no one knows the shift pattern, it's hard to steal your car ( can't shift)
I also didn't bother with the switch and left everything stock and tucked it under the cup holder for easy access, soon I'll extend it into the center console for the clean looks
Last edited by LEXXIUM; 11-08-14 at 03:56 PM.
#7
I'd be too ashamed to take pictures and post them on the internet with my interior looking that damn dirty. Dish soap and water would easily take all that nasty gunk off your radio.
As for the shifter, not real keen on it since it sits off center and has a manual shift pattern on it when its still an automatic. Do you still move it back and forth to shift from park to drive, etc? Fix those two things and IMO it would look a lot cleaner than the stock ***** style automatic shift lever.
As for the shifter, not real keen on it since it sits off center and has a manual shift pattern on it when its still an automatic. Do you still move it back and forth to shift from park to drive, etc? Fix those two things and IMO it would look a lot cleaner than the stock ***** style automatic shift lever.
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#8
Nice manumatic!!!
I'm guessing everyone who goes this way ends up picking up a manual trany down the road and doing complete swap like myself , and longest patience is getting the right r154 for the right price
Now back to the subject!!
It looks very nice,I love it because I have one, I just would love it more if I was banging gears and looks more straight up like manual
Believe me guys there is nothing like it
Op:
If no one knows the shift pattern, it's hard to steal your car ( can't shift)
I also didn't bother with the switch and left everything stock and tucked it under the cup holder for easy access, soon I'll extend it into the center console for the clean looks
I'm guessing everyone who goes this way ends up picking up a manual trany down the road and doing complete swap like myself , and longest patience is getting the right r154 for the right price
Now back to the subject!!
It looks very nice,I love it because I have one, I just would love it more if I was banging gears and looks more straight up like manual
Believe me guys there is nothing like it
Op:
If no one knows the shift pattern, it's hard to steal your car ( can't shift)
I also didn't bother with the switch and left everything stock and tucked it under the cup holder for easy access, soon I'll extend it into the center console for the clean looks
I'd be too ashamed to take pictures and post them on the internet with my interior looking that damn dirty. Dish soap and water would easily take all that nasty gunk off your radio.
As for the shifter, not real keen on it since it sits off center and has a manual shift pattern on it when its still an automatic. Do you still move it back and forth to shift from park to drive, etc? Fix those two things and IMO it would look a lot cleaner than the stock ***** style automatic shift lever.
As for the shifter, not real keen on it since it sits off center and has a manual shift pattern on it when its still an automatic. Do you still move it back and forth to shift from park to drive, etc? Fix those two things and IMO it would look a lot cleaner than the stock ***** style automatic shift lever.
I will have a new shifter in probably tomorrow that is centered. And yes, I want it to be a manual style shifter. That was my whole point of putting in a manual shifter conversion and manual shift bezel.
#11
not bad. i like it. even tho it looks slightly off, i do like it better than the stock one. it could be longer but it definitely makes the center area look more modern. good job