Potential Very Cheap DIY Short Shifter *UPDATED* Options

[Coomer]

Hey guys,
Over the weekend I installed a custom short shifter in my fourth gen. GT-S. Total cost was $29.94 shipped and insured(and that includes a new shift knob too), and all it required was a couple hours of custom work...no welding or anything like that either.

Basically, I used a '00+ Eclipse/Lancer/EVO Short Shifter, which is readily available for cheap on eBay.

After taking the shifter assembly out of my car, disassembling it, and cutting it apart(which took over an hour because the '88's assembly is solid, thick steel and I had no good tools available to cut it...the sixth gen's is plastic.), I put the Mitsubishi short shifter in, did more cutting, placed it in the car, and bolted it in(with longer bolts from a hardware store) with tons of bushings and washers to elevate the assembly and prevent the shift linkage cable from hitting the floor of the car.

It wasn't too hard of a process(and the really hard part was cutting the metal, which would be very easy on the sixth gen. because it's plastic), and I think the short shifter will work perfectly in a sixth gen. as well.

If you guys are interested, tonight I can take apart my stock sixth gen. shifter(I have a TRD Quickshifter which I love), and see if the Mitsubishi short shifter will fit in it. If so, I could write up a detailed how-to for you guys. Let me know if you're interested.

[Digndoug]

Ok Commer, if u wanna fix these, or somehow make an how-to for these, here are some pics with what needs to be done, after following your how-to for ur shifter install.

Also somew things that were not to clear in the first how-to.
The pin underneth needs to be undone slide to eathier sides to drop the linkage off.


Also another pin, this needs to be pulled out for the other shifter linkage.


First, once u have the whole plastgic shifte assemble out, theres a cap on the one end, that jsut needs to be pried off. Take a flat head and go from side to side and pop it off


Then on the other side, the pin inside, just take some small/big enough to go inside and hit the pin then hammer it out, i used an allen key cause it was right next to me.


As you can see comparing the balls, one is biger then the other. The right/bigger one, is the new shifter. Your going to need to grind it down and still keep it in a ball form to fit in the plastic caps that your taking off the stock shifter.


Once that is done, then place it back in your plastic assemble. then reverse to put back togeather and it.
When your putting the shifter assemble back in, ur going to need 4 new bolts, I went to the hard ware store and got 1.25 pitch bolts that were about 1 inch longer that worked, and used 9 washers underneth then oneon top of the assemble.

once u have those bolt them in and then ur done.
Heres some quick picks i took of it in, I lost my boot, not sure when or where, but im makeing a new consol, once the weather warms up.