WORLDS FIRST IRP Shifter Retrofit on a BMW Transmission Swapped Miata | [Install & Review] 

I am pretty sure that shifter says: Guregu-san, go get an NC, onegaishimasu.

Am disappoint. Not one mention of a ballcock shank washer.

Can we all take a moment and appreciate how Greg always tries to be funny and happy no matter the video so we would be happy too. I appreciate that a lot Greg, especially when I'm down in dumps PS: When we pushing that built engine to it's limit?

Shifter looks awesome! Recently had a ZF box put in my MX5, so I'll see how long it is before I get bored and put something like this in haha

Lol watching you drive while still having that ticket over your head stresses me out Greg! My offer still stands! If you’d like to borrow some parts for your state ref I got you! - TheMintMiata

Based on my few weeks of classes before I dropped out, the internet, and all the anime I watch, the anime gods say it's 峠の生活様式 (Tōge no seikatsu yōshiki). Apparently No (の) normally shows possession or position. So what you have there should say something like "Touge's Daily Life", I believe. The "Lifestyle" there seems to mean more "Daily Life", so I don't think it's necessarily wrong, but I could see that 生活様式 more means "This isn't just what I do everyday, this is who I am as a person." Na (な), however, is used as a descriptor for traditional adjectives. So for most normal adjectives (that don't end in I, and aren't i-adjectives), Na is used, however, because I guess in Japan they don't really use Nouns to describe other Nouns, there's such a thing as の-adjectives (no-adjectives). の-adjectives are apparently, "the term “no-adjective” simply means “nouns which are typically translated to adjectives in English and other languages.”" according to this stackexchange post: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/2770/so-called-%E3%81%AE-adjectives-how-does-%E3%81%AE-really-work as well as a few other sources I've found online. So in this case, it should be correct because you are using a noun, "Touge", to describe another noun, "Lifestyle/Daily Life" as we normally do in English. So, 峠の暮らし振り in the context of no-adjectives, should read "Touge Daily Life" or "Touge Lifestyle". So yeah, it looks to be right, but then again, I have a toddler level of Japanese, if not less, and even though the internet is always right (kappa), you never know.

My man Greg out here pioneering the Miata game

Well done! Me and some friends were talking about the IRP-Shifter (and CAE) just a couple a days ago. Happy to see some use in a Miata here shortly after.

Sweet looking piece you installed there, still can't really get over how fast your car revs and how awesome it sounds. Great stuff man

Started dying when you said "welp, hope no one from the authorities hears that one" Great stuff! Keep it up!

“oh those... those are my umm... those are my dash cams😐” 😂😂 that should definitely be a meme

Well ive watched anime for 10+ years and im Pretty sure it says, “Slow asff”

What I like about your build is you keep breaking things then making them stronger and faster ;)

The reason i love this channel is because of how relatable your videos are. I’m sure I speak for most of us when I say we’ve all experienced the ‘close but no go’ fitment of parts and had to sit using a cutting wheel/dremel/sander to get the clearances we need.

Shop tip; 5:37 A file only cuts on the forward stroke! In 7th grade metal shop, Mr. Edge, I had to write that 100 times on the blackboard. Dragging the file backwards on the piece dulls the file, which might explain why your file didn't work very well.

You constantly tinkering and adding stuff to your Miata is really helping me with the shopping list for when I eventually get mine.

Thank you for taking a risk for us, man. That really is passion.

Awesome work! Just stumbled on this in after a night of drinking lol always loved these IRP shifters!

I'm glad I talked you into getting this shifter

Great work Greg! Car sounds so perfect man!

Craig sending it hard😅 love your work my bro 👌🏼 Mx5 Miata Professor!

Haha, i just said to drill those holes when you said it... Lol. You can hear the quality of the shifter when you shift, great upgrade

The reason it gets hard to put into gear under quick shifts is due to the synchros, that's why short shifters have the bad rep of blowing synchros. Easy way to not blow the synchros is slow shifts, either that or learn to double clutch. Hope this helps someone

Very cool idea, glad it worked out!

Just recently got to LA for work, first time being on the west coast, and I can not believe how much I agree with you talking about the heat.. most of the cars I've owned had either had no A/C or I've taken it out, I wouldn't want that in LA..

3:30 dude I thought I was the only person who also has to jiggle the lock to get it to open haha

I jumped out of my rocket league tournament to watch this video.

eyyy from lithuania im here watchin and lovin your vids and miatas in general

Get this man to 100k

Got to get myself one of these. Great video 👌 Drive safe ✌

YEET That thing looks hella rad bro, worth every penny

Wife is all "eat your dinner, it's gonna get cold". "Hold on, carpassionchannel has a new video....." Seriously good stuff, and I'm not talking about dinner. I hope you can keep us updated on the ref thing. Thanks for the video!

i love this channel so much!

You desrve more subscribers man fr 💯

Nice video Craig

Amazing job!

"Oh god, what did I drop?" Story of my life with my NB1.

That worked out surprisingly well. I have a Garagistic shifter in my e36. Those Getrag 5 speeds will put some muscle on you.

Good choice! I really like my IRP shifter. That 2-3 shift couldn't possibly get any faster than this shifter made it.

I always heard people express their dislike for the feel of notchy shifters, and after owning my Miata for a couple years (and being the only manual car I've owned so far), I literally don't understand why anyone would dislike it? I learned how to drive stick in my friend's GTI, and could barely tell when I was even putting it into a gear, especially with the long throw, and this was with literally zero experience driving a stick. Then more recently when I drove a friend's newer Mazda 3 with a stick, since it seemed to have the same kind of shifter as my friend's GTI (as I would assume a lot of standard sized cars would have), it made me appreciate my Miata so much more. Now I just want a new Miata so I can give my old one a rest, lol.

Lithuanian here 😅🙋‍♂️

Greg, my man. So proud to see you wearing gloves!

Random video in my recommendations, and then bam! The part is from my home country, which i didn't even knew about this company 😁 Wasup Lithuanians!

man your car sounds so good.

It says "I don't even speak japanese. I just think it looks cool."

Still killin it Craig!

missed you man, hope you get that ticket shit sorted soon

finally a new video!!!

I have the IRP on my stock 5 speed. Great shifter 😁

After years of watching, a couple of days ago i finally got a 92' 116k miles 1 owner miata. Pretty sweet, oem hardtop and glass window soft top. Looking to manual swap it.

The boss is back

Glad you're back into the car.. GREG.. and safe home from MATG

If there was a shorter KMiata shifter rod to move it forward and a plate to cover the shifter hole (add holes to mount that stand for the shifter) with a hole opened up for the IRP shifter you could move that whole thing forward it looks like and avoid trimming the center console. Not sure on spacing RE: the dash though. I really like the look of this Greg, I might be getting it myself..

hope you get that ref-situation figured out. I would love to see Matt Farah do a onetake of your car.

Hi Graeigh nice job..

Sweet vid. There was a Terminator ad before it started. Youre moving up in the world. Two thoughts. Monday morning mechanic style. 1) could you have put a piece of 1/4” plate across the underside of your trans tunnel an bolted through that with washer shims? 2) Can you flip your current shifter boot upside down to get some temporary heat and noise relief until you sort that out?

Boys, we alone 8k subs away from that silver plaque and getting Greg closer towards full time RU-vidr at 300k subs. Let’s get him there!

Im doing the same. E46 6-Gear but with a CAE Shifter. Quality if off the charts + color/knob type can be choosen.

Omg you saved the cup holder yessssss

Thats some pretty impressive gear shift kung fu right there.

i would take that old shifter base plate, drill a big new center hole, drill holes for the new shifter mounting points and countersink them. To seal take one of those general purpose CV axle boots, cut to size and mount it upside down (cone facing down). Some tie rips and voilà

Any thoughts on the difference between the roadster sport Miata shifter you had on the Miata trans vs this IRP one? I know the trans is different, but really curious

1000 IQ when he came up with the holes 😂

If you want to seal up the hole and keep the look of the inner workings of the lever, can you just make a plate mount that the shifter mounts onto and uses the holes you drilled?

Lithuania! We are here!

Small block Chevy swapped a 300zx with a friend just after finishing it took it on a 800 mile road trip to roadkill nights and oh my god do I wish we made somthing to block the trans tunnel shifter hole the heat coming out of that hole was ungodly

Reminds me of the day I drove a friends car and shifted in 2nd and had the shift knob in my hand when I went to grab the wheel

I’ve been trying for the past couple days to get my ecu set up with an aem afr gauge but when I start the car the arm gauge reads about 14.7 but the megasquirt reads 7.5. I calibrated it and I have it plugged into analog power and negative. I can’t find anything else on what could be wrong

This video saddens me because i broke a gear in my trans now its stuck in 4th. You keep my dream going tho

I want the pewds knob lol

Seeing your miata. i miss mine now..

If you ran a piece of flatstock under the front and then extended it out probably could line it up with the original miata holes and get a little more strength out of it. Awesome job though!

Greg couldnt u use a stock NA rubber tunnel boot and modify it for the shifter?

Maybe a shorty console and some nice carpeting to cover the hole.

This sound level inside, can you drive it for more then 20 minutes? I had bad (whining) differential, and this shit was killing me after half an hour.

how does it compare to the miataroadster.com shifter you had on the 6 speed?

Does anybody know if the 5speed irp shifter for nc miata is compatible with a 6speed nc ? I havent been able to find any info online so I would appreciate any info thanks !

sweet!

What’s the % reduction on the short shifter?

Epic brofist for last

I'm watching this wondering why you didn't think to try and pass the new shifter though the old adapter plate and fab a bracket an bolt the restrictor/lockout box to that

Dude, you have to get rid of that oem console now that you have that sick shifter, grab one of those jass performance shorty consoles, or circular ring ones.

Ive always been interested in these shifters, most notably their b series shifter but from watching Latommylas video, it seems like its not well optimized to fit and work in the civic chassis and interior. But they did come out with a V2 tho

Video notification = Insta click

Is your miata diff welded or not welded.?.

What wheels do you have? They look sick.

What stereo is that? Alpine IDA series?

ahhhhhhhh I don't know about all that clearancing. I surely hope the next video isn't "My Miata won't go into gear"

I have irp in my E46 it’s worth the money but god damn pain in the ass to mount trying to keep the center console look “stock”

i dont have the rubber boot for my gearstick and it isnt worth it. Gets way too hot.

So before the IRP install was it bad to shift? Coming from a Miata will we hate it? Did u only do it coz snapped? Need mire info on this... Thats a nice shifter but its not for everyone + its just adding to the cost of an already expensive build. Sorry for loaded question lol.

Hey Greg, where did you get that Mazda flag that's hanging in your garage? I need more garage art.

Can you make a video of how much you’ve spent on this build?

I want to do this swap on my car but the ZF 5 speed out of the 2003 BMW m3 I have an NB with 6 speed but It doesn't fee the same to bmw trans.... I've driven all the E46s from 2000s, I had a 323i which had GETRAG then the 330ci and m3 have ZF boxes

Why didn't you modify the nice plate on the Kmiata shifter since it was already broken? Could have made a hole with enough room for the shifter to work, and mounted the shifter itself to the plate..

Why not use an adjustable open rod (fork) end linage instead of cutting up the interior parts? Any length is possible with those treaded rods. And they are not expensive to set up. ---Just my two cents.

You want a DoctorMX5 upper shift boot, the centre hole will stretch to fit the shifter

but where’d the fire extinguisher go at 12:25

Did you manage to solve the police problems or still working on those?

Greg, contact IRP and see if they can send you a rubber trans cover from a normal miata shifter kit. I got one of these recently (not fitted yet) but the shifter bolts straight to the trans and then there’s a rubber mat/metal frame combo that bolts to the stock transmission tunnel holes (like the stock mazda shift boot does). It’s a pretty simple thing that I think you could modify really easily to suit your car. Or you could probably fab something up similar just using a sheet of 1/8th rubber and a few bits of aluminium sheet/bar and get the same effect :-)