Best Short Shifter For The Rd1?
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IceColdJones @ Mar 21 2006, 08:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Whats the baseplate that you are talkin about with the Rside Basic?????</div>
it's a plastic plate that holds shifter assembly
it's a plastic plate that holds shifter assembly
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (REDZMAN @ Mar 21 2006, 10:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>4. Rside Advanced = A Short and adjustable. If you take out the center shaft and replace it with a section of bolt threading, you can get it extremely short. You'll see pics of mine soon.</div>
Let me see pics of your shifter and how do you take out the center shaft and replace it with a section of bolt threading, can you explain this more or show pics????Thanks
Let me see pics of your shifter and how do you take out the center shaft and replace it with a section of bolt threading, can you explain this more or show pics????Thanks
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how's this for short?
it's the SharkRacing/RsideBasic without the extension piece. I actually have to "palm" the knob to shift. (insert pun here). I have a bad syncro, so it's tough at times, but other than that, yes you have to cut up the base plate, but it's all good.
it's the SharkRacing/RsideBasic without the extension piece. I actually have to "palm" the knob to shift. (insert pun here). I have a bad syncro, so it's tough at times, but other than that, yes you have to cut up the base plate, but it's all good.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IceColdJones @ Mar 21 2006, 08:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Let me see pics of your shifter and how do you take out the center shaft and replace it with a section of bolt threading, can you explain this more or show pics????Thanks</div>
Pics are up in the Nopi thread.
You take out the center piece, it just unscrews. Get a bolt that matches that thread, cut the head off, and cut it short enough to where the knob rests on the LOWER half of the short shifter.
Done.
Pics are up in the Nopi thread.
You take out the center piece, it just unscrews. Get a bolt that matches that thread, cut the head off, and cut it short enough to where the knob rests on the LOWER half of the short shifter.
Done.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Blacktibs @ Mar 21 2006, 11:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah I'll send one out. PM me.</div>
Does anyone still sell the Rside basic and if not, would you say the Megan is shorter than the Rside Advanced???
Does anyone still sell the Rside basic and if not, would you say the Megan is shorter than the Rside Advanced???
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The Rside Basic sucks ass. I don't think you understand what needs to be done to use it. You have to take out the large black plastic plate at the bottom of the shifter assembly. A bit of a PITA.
THEN, you have to hack it up, make a bunch of slots and such in it so things move allright when it's all installed.
Then you have to put it all back together.
All for just a bit shorter than the others. It's just the HEIGHT that is shorter, not the throw on that compared to the others. THROW will be the same on almost all of the short shifters.
Get a megan or Rside advanced and make them shorter. Look at the pics of mine installed, and short as possible (Actually, mine could go about 1/3 inch shorter with the threads that are left exposed). There's no reason for SHORTER than that. You'd have to reach down INTO the console to shift. That's dumb, and dangerous.
You can only get that thing used now anyways.
THEN, you have to hack it up, make a bunch of slots and such in it so things move allright when it's all installed.
Then you have to put it all back together.
All for just a bit shorter than the others. It's just the HEIGHT that is shorter, not the throw on that compared to the others. THROW will be the same on almost all of the short shifters.
Get a megan or Rside advanced and make them shorter. Look at the pics of mine installed, and short as possible (Actually, mine could go about 1/3 inch shorter with the threads that are left exposed). There's no reason for SHORTER than that. You'd have to reach down INTO the console to shift. That's dumb, and dangerous.
You can only get that thing used now anyways.
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Is this the same shifter as the Megan????
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/97-98-99-00...048831242QQrdZ1
I'm also 6'8'' so I have a huge reach so the shorter the more comfortable for me, and I fit perfectly in the car so don't ask and comfortably, as a matter of fact, I valet at a bar on the southside of Chicago called Bourbon Street and I fit in everything except the S2000,haha!!!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/97-98-99-00...048831242QQrdZ1
I'm also 6'8'' so I have a huge reach so the shorter the more comfortable for me, and I fit perfectly in the car so don't ask and comfortably, as a matter of fact, I valet at a bar on the southside of Chicago called Bourbon Street and I fit in everything except the S2000,haha!!!!!