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Installed a few things...

bullion

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I haven't posted in a long while so here's a quick update since I finally got around to installing the pile of parts I have had sitting in my basement for months now....

Rear Strut Brace, Hi-Flow Cat (I welded it into my SHO-Shop y-pipe), and a Steeda Tri-Ax short shifter.

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looks really nice...

however, IMO short shifters are useless and more of a headach then they are worth.
 
if i had to sell my car and bought another one, the first thing i would get is a short shifter. i cant drive an svt without one!!! they make a world of a difference
 
This Steeda shifter makes a world of a difference...I regret not having installed one sooner. I was kind of shocked that I didn't have to adjust the shift linkages after the install. Did anyone else not have to do this with their Steeda Tri-Ax install?

By the way, the only reason why that garage is so clean is because that is a family member's summer condo....I just have not had a chance to drive it the hour and a half back to my house in Cleveland.
 
looks really nice...

however, IMO short shifters are useless and more of a headach then they are worth.

Headache? The Steeda shifter is the only short throw that takes longer than an hour to install, and that's because you need to make a riser plate, or in my case(as well as some 99's and all 2000's), a plate for under the car. Why they're useless, you'll have to answer that one. Maybe it doesn't matter much when you run 18's? :shrug:

Mark
 
I have used all kinds of contour short shifters, all of them make the trans feel really stiff, the gears arent smooth any more, plus I have found it requires more force to shift between gears, more force = more stress, more stress = broken shift tower bolt/broken short shifts/wearing out the shift cables earlier/wearing out the syncros.

my tour has the stock trans at 172K miles, syncros in EVERY gear are perfect, even in 20 degree weather it shifts like butter.

this is all in my own opinion I have no evidence to back this up, based upon what I have witnessed over the years being on CEG, short shifters are the reason for prematurely worn out transmission components.
 
i like my B&M. it doesnt reduce the throw much but it is shorter. the stocker used to make me change the radio stations when i shifted.
 
if i had to sell my car and bought another one, the first thing i would get is a short shifter. i cant drive an svt without one!!! they make a world of a difference

I have to agee with you 100%When I first got my SVT I drove a couple months with the stock shifter,and learned to hate it,my first mod was the short shifter.
 
based upon what I have witnessed over the years being on CEG, short shifters are the reason for prematurely worn out transmission components.

WTF!?!? Find me a legitimate thread that has any proof that a short throw shifter had ANYTHING to do with premature wear on any transmission components. Is it a game for you to make stuff up in every thread you post in? Or is it just easier to get called out, and come back later to say your ADD was kicking in, or that you didn't get enough sleep, or..... :nonono:

Mark
 
I have used all kinds of contour short shifters, all of them make the trans feel really stiff.
I agree with this. The transmission doesn't liked to be rushed anyway. Plus I just can't justify the price :nonono:

I saw a garage built fox body with a semi truck shifter that was running 10's once. A short shift doesn't make up for a lack of power :laugh:
 
Every car I have owned (16 in all) the first mod is short throw shifter. Some people like to drive and others are all about DD smoothness. Either way, to each there own. Short throws do make a difference for the better though. -B.
 
WTF!?!? Find me a legitimate thread that has any proof that a short throw shifter had ANYTHING to do with premature wear on any transmission components. Is it a game for you to make stuff up in every thread you post in? Or is it just easier to get called out, and come back later to say your ADD was kicking in, or that you didn't get enough sleep, or..... :nonono:

Mark

you obviously suck at reading

"this is all in my own opinion I have no evidence to back this up, based upon what I have witnessed over the years being on CEG, short shifters are the reason for prematurely worn out transmission components."

to me it just makes sense, putting additional stress on any components is going to reduce the use able life of any parts, to me its like... putting a turbo on a motor, that turbo gives you more power, which allows you to go faster, w00t you get to go faster. However a turbo isn't going to make your motor last any longer, its going to wear certain parts of that motor out sooner, maybe if you put a turbo on and drive the car like an old man for the rest of the life it doesn't make any difference, but chances are if you have a turbo, you are going to take advantage of that... I know I would

just like a short shifter, like I said, it requires more torque from the driver to put the car into different gears, chances are if someone got a short shifter, they are going to take advantage of the faster shifting throws, in which case run their car harder. Ramming the car through gears obviously isn't good for the trans, through co-relation; short shifts = bad for transmission components.

Mark, show me some evidence that says a short shifter is good for the transmission, other then your word. Like I said, its purely opinion based, reasoning for me not to get a short shifter.
 
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I have a b&m shifter, and I love it, its shorter, looks better, doesnt feel like im driving a truck, and transmission goes in and out of gear like butter... no complaints here!
 
Same here love my Short shifter.
As said many times before..When adding anything aftermarket to your motor to add power and Performance suspension parts, its going to take its toll and wear things out..
 
To Aliasjerk:So a car with a turbo stock is going to breakdown/not last as long as a N/A engine???Just because it has a turbo and it will cause "premature wear"....I don't think so it all in how you take car of it.I/E I could slam the stock shifter just as hard as a short shifter,cause the "extra wear" on the transmission and in fact I think a lot of ppl on here will agree with me that it is more frustrating and more likely to add more "torque" on the stock hifter because of the numb feeling,then one would on a short shifter
 
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