I think he used the wrong part, this car will need a "wide barrel" short shifter which is the upgrade for the factory non-short shifter, the one he installed is the narrow barrel one which is for factory upgraded short shifter linkages, u can see when he put the pivot bushings into the new shifter the centre metal tube sticked out on both sides, and I feel this would cause some imprecision in the gates while shifting and possibly increased play in the shifter
@xAbre1200 correct. you shouldnt have to get under the car unless youre doing the bushings... and then u still dont need to completely take apart the linkage haha
I know is about performance too as the shifter push the gears and does in relatively shorter distances between one and another but boy I just wanted to cut that out shifter in sentras are so long
I cut out some portion of the top shifter from a sentra made new tread with a tread maker that I already had and boom short shifter Only attempt this if you already own a tread maker since the are quite expensive
Short shifter doesn't mean cutting the rod of the shifter, making it shorter...it means making the distance between gears shorter (ex. distance between first and second)...
I know it's about performance and a short shifter makes the shift faster than a regular but what I was looking for was not performance just simple looks
how? like newer WRX's there isn't a c-clip right where the ball thing goes into the cup thing. and its impossible to yank out. i just tried the simple way and the way in the video and its a pain in the ass, so i said fuck it
Thinking about installing a short shifter in my 2001 Rs, looked some how to vids and came across this one. was wondering, do I need to unbolt mine from the bottoms too? I've seen some vids where people just work from the top of their car in the center dash console.
I know you won't get anything from my reply, but for anyone else: you can do it from the top, but you'll have to hammer the ball into place. With enough grease you can probably get away with it. If not, unbolt the bottom.