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Slugoid wrote:Just wondering if anyone has gone one of these and if so how do you install it?? I'm having trouble installing mine

Seems like the bolts are not long enough or the inner center metal ring is too high (if you know what I'm taking about). Cheers.

It should have come with longer turrent bolts, as the higher fulculm point (the thick metal center ring) is the key to the short shift.

yeah mate I got one of those too and had allsorts of problems ....but finally worked it out I can't remember exactly what i did but I do remember removing the plastic ring that is down in the gearstick hole and swapping it to be at the top of the hole so the gearstick ball was in contact with it instead of steel...

Good luck I hope this helped in some way

As it happens, I put one in last Thursday night.

The instructions are flat out wrong.

After you remove the stock shifter, you must ALSO remove the plastic ring that the stock ball sits in. It is removed by using a screwdriver to lever it up at the back of the shifter housing and it will pop out from below the detent stud. Don't forget to get the spring washer underneath it.

The small aluminium ring with a notch in it from the kit then goes into the housing. The notch allows it to clear the old detent stud. Notch faces DOWN to go over the detent stud.

The plastic ring you pulled from the housing then goes in on top of the aluminium ring, spring between plastic and aluminium.

The shifter then goes in.

The housing extension then goes on around the shifter, line up the detent stud and the slot in the shifter so they face forward like the stock one does.

The plastic ring that comes with the kit then goes in (aluminium washer on TOP), plastic side to the shifter ball.

Put the housing cover on top and cinch down the bolts.

Test assembly. 1-2-3-4-5-R, etc.

Make very certain that the shifter is screwed together - it is two piece and mine came loose on the first day - very worrying until I worked out what was wrong. Mine is now held with Loctite.

Then put all the rubber boots back on. The console, etc.

Ahh it all comes back to me now ...Well done adam this is excellent and will help many in the future i am sure...

so whats the finished product like??

I have had mine in for a few months now and love it ...Finding it easier to shift from 2ND to 3RD at high revs on track days etc

Slugoid wrote:Problem
I 'though' I did it right at one stage but then somehow it didn't shift into 3rd or 4th. Put the old one back on and my neutral gear is now reverse . I can only change to "1st" and "2nd" but when it's engaged it goes nowhere I seriously dunno what I've done. Only explanation is that I've shifted into a position that beyond the normal H pattern when I was shifting with when the shortshifter wasn't installed properly

Is it still like this Slugoid? The early NA gearboxes had a habit of doing this. What happens is the reverse spool in the gearbox gets stuck in the wrong place. To fix it you have to get under the car, take off the reverse switch plug (hex plug with wires coming out of it) on the right upper side of the gearbox, put a screwdriver in there and push the spool forward.

You sound about as happy as I was when I found that out after it happened to me! I thought my gearbox was broken and I'd have to get a new one... Thankfully an easy fix.