{"id":1248,"date":"2012-06-10T22:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2012-06-10T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T05:42:21","slug":"shifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Shifter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Car came with a hole in the trans tunnel from a prior modification, patched with some screwed-in metal I removed in tear-down.\u00a0 Here’s a dark photo illustrating the size of the wound:<\/p>\n

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It’s all been repaired since, had new equal-gauge metal welded in and smoothed when at the body shop:<\/p>\n

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But as I went to install the Hurst Competition Plus shifter on the freshly rebuilt trans<\/a>, I realized there was no freakin’ way it was going to fit, without re-creating a monster hole.\u00a0 After some investigation, turns out I had the wrong shifter – even though it worked fine with the trans, it was meant to fit in a Chevelle, which has a big hump on the driver side of the tunnel to accommodate that type of shifter.<\/p>\n

So, a brand new Hurst Competition Plus shifter – this time for the Camaro, was purchased and installed-<\/p>\n

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No holes were cut in the installation, though it was a bit of a pain, you can barely get it in there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As you can somewhat see in the picture above and this one below:<\/p>\n

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The shifter works on the transmission through a collection of rods – one for 1-2, one for 3-4, and another for reverse.\u00a0 The instructions say the rods may need some bending to “fit your application”.\u00a0 Turns out they’re right about that – they all need bending.\u00a0 Got the\u00a03-4 rod bent now so it’s not hitting the trans tunnel, but the reverse rod hits the 1-2 rod when you use it, causing the transmission to select second gear and reverse simultaneously!\u00a0 (Not so good when adjusting your position on the line at a Pro Solo with mere seconds left, and the trans gets stuck like that!)<\/p>\n

So, still some more bending to do – looks like there’s plenty of room to get everything to work with no interference, just needs a bit more time and persuasion.\u00a0 It’s funny to me, how a shifter design that literally must be 50 years old – one that probably still sells well today –\u00a0still just plain doesn’t work right out of the box without some tweaking.<\/p>\n

Would like to take the rods apart again anyway – noticed the Chevelle-style shifter had steel bushings in the ends of the rods, whereas the new ones are nylon, which might dampen a little vibration, but also might break.<\/p>\n

Shifter is a medium height, a decent starting point.\u00a0 Hurst makes a bunch of different shifter sticks, if I’d like it up higher (closer to the steering wheel) they make longer ones, and if I’d like a shorter throw, they make shorter ones.<\/p>\n

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Car came with a hole in the trans tunnel from a prior modification, patched with some screwed-in metal I removed in tear-down.\u00a0 Here’s a dark photo illustrating the size of the wound: It’s all been repaired since, had new equal-gauge metal welded in and smoothed when at the body shop: But as I went to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}