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poorhousenext · 06-01-2008, 04:40 PM

Shop and myself have been working on shifter install and a way to hide that little monster without to much of a "My dog Fido's rear end look" to do it.

I chose to use one of the existing GM shifters that has Tap up & Tap down shifting built into floor mounted shifter that I know is a no brainer for company making the wire harness to make work at this time. This is area I can revisit again after I get entire retro Project completed and everything up and running to try and improves looks of.

Cheap looking Caddy shifter.

Nice looking Caddy shifter.
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Cheaper in looks and price, Pontiac G8 shifter.
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I decided on G8 shifter. It wasn't my first choice, but was the $600.00 dollar cheaper options. $523.00 dollars VS $1145.00+ dollar for what I considered to be the best looking of the Caddy shifters for my application. Due to Fords OZ supercar wins, I'll probably have to hide a Blue Oval in the car somewhere to make up for the Holden shifter....

Litte OZ humor my friends down under suggested...

I don't make the 134 mile round trip down to shop everyday, so things happen that I would have liked to have been different. Like forgetting to tell them when I gave them the shifter to install that they needed to elevate the front of base so top of shifter would sit level with top of console we would need to make. You can see they mounted it without thinking about that. Bolts in it are to short to install shims to level it.

Shifter also required tunnel to have to be cut and modified for actuator arm clearance also. I would have like to moved shifter back some to provide more clearance between shifter/console to house it and the Vette's dash, but couldn't do that due to drive shaft yoke, so shifter is mounted in original 4 speed shifter location.

Side view of shifter

Note: There may be 1 after market shifter from Retrotek Speed Inc that could have been wired in to do the manual shifts via acuator and then try to get it's paddled shifter option working to shift thru the 6 speeds.
http://www.retrotekspeed.com/product...th-f1-paddles/

06-01-2008, 04:40 PM	#19
poorhousenext On The Tree Trader Rating: 0 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: TN Posts: 103	Shop and myself have been working on shifter install and a way to hide that little monster without to much of a "My dog Fido's rear end look" to do it. I chose to use one of the existing GM shifters that has Tap up & Tap down shifting built into floor mounted shifter that I know is a no brainer for company making the wire harness to make work at this time. This is area I can revisit again after I get entire retro Project completed and everything up and running to try and improves looks of. Cheap looking Caddy shifter. Nice looking Caddy shifter. [IMG][/IMG] Cheaper in looks and price, Pontiac G8 shifter. [IMG][/IMG] I decided on G8 shifter. It wasn't my first choice, but was the $600.00 dollar cheaper options. $523.00 dollars VS $1145.00+ dollar for what I considered to be the best looking of the Caddy shifters for my application. Due to Fords OZ supercar wins, I'll probably have to hide a Blue Oval in the car somewhere to make up for the Holden shifter.... Litte OZ humor my friends down under suggested... I don't make the 134 mile round trip down to shop everyday, so things happen that I would have liked to have been different. Like forgetting to tell them when I gave them the shifter to install that they needed to elevate the front of base so top of shifter would sit level with top of console we would need to make. You can see they mounted it without thinking about that. Bolts in it are to short to install shims to level it. Shifter also required tunnel to have to be cut and modified for actuator arm clearance also. I would have like to moved shifter back some to provide more clearance between shifter/console to house it and the Vette's dash, but couldn't do that due to drive shaft yoke, so shifter is mounted in original 4 speed shifter location. Side view of shifter Note: There may be 1 after market shifter from Retrotek Speed Inc that could have been wired in to do the manual shifts via acuator and then try to get it's paddled shifter option working to shift thru the 6 speeds. http://www.retrotekspeed.com/product...th-f1-paddles/