It’s amazing! I just have once concern, I’m not sure if anyone else has this or has noticed this but ever since I put in the short shifter my gear knob moves a lot in third gear only, it’s weird because it only happens in third gear it like shakes a lot when I let of the gas when I’m stepping on the gas aggressively I don’t notice it moving but when I give it light gas it shakes a lot and when I let go of the gas it shakes a lot as well. I installed the motor mount at the same time I installed the short shifter plate and all bushings you guys offer for our cars. Not sure if it’s the plate causing this vibration of the shift knob in third gear or if it’s the motor mount or possible something else.
I have a similar experience. I installed the short shifter plate about a month ago now. In 3rd gear, the knob shakes when either decelerating or accelerating aggressively for me while in gear. I pretty much chalked it up to engine movement. I noticed the shaking when I had just the plate installed and then even after I installed the bushings inside the cabin and on top of the transmission. Without the bushings and just the plate, the knob also seemed to travel a bit in the longitudinal direction while actually in 3rd gear. After installing the bushings the movement of the knob seems to have almost all gone away but the vibration in 3rd is still there.
Has anyone installed the shifter plate without replacing the bushings? How is it?
I first installed the plate without the bushings and I lost all my bottom gears 2,4 and 6. You could hardly feel any engagement at all. It felt like the shift knob would just slide into gear with zero feedback. I read one of the customer reviews about the plate and the buyer stated you had to buy the shifter base bushings to get feeling back. After I installed the bushings in the cabin all the engagement came back. Shortly after I did the transmission bushings. Overall it is a joy shifting now. Everything is very precise and feedback is good.
Yessir! The motivation behind that was to 'move' the entire shift pattern closer to the driver for a more ergonomic feel! But ya, it was weird at first!
Thanks for the feedback guys!
Interesting... this actually makes sense.
I ask because when I first installed the short shifter plate (I installed the bushings) my shifter would shake just in third though, when letting off the gas while still In gear, I also installed the boomba rear motor mount at the same time as the short shifter plate and bushings After I installed the turbotech upper motor mount and I have no shaking in the shifter in any gear.
This is very interesting. I want to try Superpro bushings on the motor to see if it will solve the issue (I think they have some for the top motor mount as well) before I do entire motor mounts.