Finally got off my butt and installed the comptech short shifter. I gotta say I love this thing. Factor in the speedsource shifter bushings and I have a very nice positive feel when shifting. It is very firm, but you can easily feel when the gear is engaged, so it takes very little effort to shift. No banging through the gears. Just a firm push/pull and you get a nice positive click.
This kit also removed quite a bit of the front/back and side/side slop that was in the shifter.
Only one more shift/tranny upgrade planned. I'm running the whitecap honda mtf. After 1 day at the track, it smelled a little burned/old. It got the job done, but I wasn't exactly blown away by it. I used Redline mt90 in my old d16y8 tranny with great success (>150k miles, >60k with redline and it shifted like butter). I've decided to try something new and ordered some
Amsoil Synchromesh MTF. I imagine it will show up in a week or so and I'll give it a shot.
On with the pictures.
Pulled the lower console out. You can see the s2k shift knob on the drivers side floor.
Need to do some drilling to install the comptech shifter adapter. Got this whole set of titanium bits from Autozone for $9.99
Instructions don't tell you to do this, but life it much easier if you secure the adapter somehow so it doesn't flop around on you and make you mess up your hole. You have to use a 1/4" drill bit through the unoccupied hole on the adapter. Its a tight fit and a bit frustrating, but it works.
Even with a cloth around the shifter, I still ended up with a bunch of metal shavings that got in the base of the shifter. Weird... Anyways, have a magnet or a shopvac handy.
Final installed product
