I cut my shifter down too. First I disassembled the reverse lockout and decided that it was a feature I wanted to keep as stock as possible. So I cut a 1 1/4" slug out of the middle of the plastic lockout shaft and cut the same amount of material off the shifter. Then I went to the hardware store and bought a thread cutter that matched the inside of the stock shift knob and recut the lowered shifter. I then bought the strongest epoxy material I could find and epoxied (is that a word??) the lock out back together. Then reassembled. Now the shifter looks stock, although an inch lower, has a working reverse lockout and can use the factory knob....and all it cost was the thread cutting tool...a couple bucks.
