My little $5 dollar project
 

I have been very bored lately and thought I'd come up with something to do to my daily.. I decided I would convert the auto shifter to a manual style shifter.

It was actually quite simple and the only thing I had to pay for was a $5 dollar shift boot! I did not take pics during the whole conversion so all I really got are the finished pics.. The overdrive switch is mounted to the left side of the shifter under the shift boot, incase any of you were wondering. So all I have to do is just click it on and off with my thumb. On to the pics!

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...shifter004.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...shifter007.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...shifter005.jpg

Re: My little $5 dollar project
 

now u just need a fake left pedal!

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wow thats pretty cool. something origional

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I was joking around with my friends about welding in a pedal. I think it would be pretty funny to try and have someone drive the car that doesn't know and the confusion on there face when the pedal was just solid and the shifter only went in a straight line. haha

Or make the pedal move back and fourth on a spring and push it in everytime I manually shifted it, but the shifter still would only moved forward and back. I bet I could trick a couple retards at my school with it and tell them it's a specially built trans or something. haha

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lol a rachet shift setup

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Neat idea I guess, but it kinda seems silly to give up the convienience factor of knowing what drive you're in.

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Ha, nice!

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Well if you know you're car you know what gear you're in. It's not hard.. But I do know what your saying

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What about the reverse safety lockout, is that still functional? If not, I'd be cautious about something or someone hitting the shifter to reverse or park while cruising. Accidents happen.

Neat idea though!

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I think i might have to do this, what did you have to do. I want this not to fool people into thinking its a manual but to get rid of that massive stock shifter

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The reverse safety lockout isn't there anymore.. You can make it so it's still functional but with the tools I have at my apartment I can't really do too much. So yea.. If I ever bump it into reverse I hope at least someone gets it on camera. haha.

Twack, I didn't do it to trick people, I just hate the look of the auto shifter like you said. I will explain a little run-down of what I did.

1. Remove shift knob/Cut wires for overdrive switch. Cut it more towards the actuall switch, you cannot remove the knob without cutting those wires.

2. After getting everything out of the way, remove the shifter. Just held in by a bolt on the bottom.

3. There will be a rod with a plastic piece on top. Screw the rod out and it will no longer be used. (If you take out the rod, you will not have the reverse safety lockout.) You could still use the rod and have it so you push the manual type shift knob down, just like you would the button.

4. There will be a small rod sticking through the bottom attached to a spring that the rod would push down for the safety lock feature. You will need to push the spring all the way down and then I tack welded it. I'm sure you could come up with some other way to keep it down. Or you could even completly remove it.

5. Re-install it but leave out the the plastic piece's that show you PRND2L so you can install the manual shift boot.

6. Mount and wire the overdrive switch back in. You can mount it wherever you like. I put mine on the left side of the shifter underneath the boot.

7. Install manual shift boot, put manual style shifter on!