Sneak Peak at Sub Project for Interior

[meissen]

Well... it definitely did not come out how I had envisioned. When I started cutting away at the shaft, I found out the inner plastic pushrod (for you automatic guys.. the white piece) changes uhm.. a lot and basically wouldn't work if I kept cutting further down. So, now I need to get a shift boot and see how it looks. If it still looks really tall, then I'm probably going to have to get a shorter knob.. like a ball or something that'd be smaller. I don't know, definitely not a happy camper after doin this mod.

[Keego Ridah]

yea that long shifter looks a lil gawdy

[Derek]

whys it look like everythings covered in dirt/dust in there, just the camera?

[meissen]

well, I just got done grinding away the steel shaft of the shifter, so stuff's a tad dusty.. I wiped it down real quick before snappin the pics, didn't do the full detail waxing the console and stuff.

[DETROITMUSCLE]

sorry B looks much too big.

[c0ncEpT]

Meissen sent that back and ill save you some money.... We will go pick out a nice cane frome CVS, You wont even see the difference !

[meissen]

Neh, it's cool. I entirely agree. I'm pretty pissed at the results, I can't do anything about it either because I literally cut the stickshift so the only way to fix this is to either get a shorter knob to make it all together look shorter, or to buy an entire new stickshift mechanism.

[silver6_maro]

if you want to, try getting a leather shift boot, it will make it look a lot shorter. wHEN I got my chrome shift knob, i put it on and it looked bad, but once the boot was on, it looked a ton better.

I got mine off ebay for cheap

Imagine this without a boot, i think it would look really long

[phoenix_rising]

Thats bad *ss!

[SS4Matt]

yea Ty's car looks great....Meissen..that's shitty that it came out like that...my buddy has just a plain jane stupid green malibu, and he did that same thing you did...but his shifter is like 1 or 2 inch's tall now...it's crazy...i'll ask him what he did and maybe he could steer you in the right direction!

[meissen]

Well I can't cut the shaft any shorter or else I'll ruin the shifting mechanism, I literally trimmed down as much as I could, trust me on that lol.

[meissen]

Granted the carPC is out because of the power supply, but here's a nice "progression" slideshow...

Back when the shifter was stock height, with the adapter ontop of that, and then the really tall shift knob:


After cutting the shift stick's height down about 2-4 inches:



Shorter shift knob, improves the height a LOT! Look at the difference between the height of the knob to the carPC in these pics compared to the two above:



And the new 100% genuine Italian leather shift boot thanks to RedLineGoods.com:

[MrMojoRisin681]

Is that a manual knob on your automatic?

[MattODoom]

Is it just me or is your console lid yellow?

[93formulalt1]

That came out really clean! You wanna do that for my new car when I get it?