Extended Shifter

[JimmyRickard]

I want to put an extended shifter in my 32 GTR track car as the stock one is too short. Something like this:

Is there any off the shelf items for a GTR? Or do I need to get it custom made? Anyone know someone in Sydney who could knock it up?

Would I need a short shifter kit or would the stock one be ok?

Thanks

[GTSBoy]

Realistically, the minimum you need would be to make up an extension that screws on in place of the gearknob. Probably need a locking nut under it and some loktite to keep it in place.

Next step up (or down, if you're measuring in terms of shitness) would be to get a stock shifter and cut it off down near the bottom, extending and shaping it with whatever curve you need in it, then potentially replacing the old top you cut off back up at the top of the extension.

Either of these will give you a potentially longer throw than you might like, so yes, a short shift kit underneath is probably needed. You can work out how much longer the throw will be by just scaling up the existing throw by the ratio of the lengths of old and new shifter. It's that simple. If it's too long, then short shift kit it. /tongue twister.

[JimmyRickard]

Where could I take the shifter to get it modified? And what short shift kit would be the best option? I haven't heard good things about the nismo kit

[GTSBoy]

Any decent fabrication workshop would be able to modify it. Depending on who you take it to you'd either have to do all the thinking for them and give them a drawing, or you might just be able to say "I want the knob up this high and I want to to go back and forth this far from the steering wheel" and leave them to work out the geometry. Such shops might be your typical race mod shop, or just an engineering shop. If you were here in Adelaide I could point you to a few of each. NSW is not my territory though.

That one in your picture is not even a cut'n'shut. The entire thing looks fabricated, which is probably just as easy as a cut'n'shut anyway. All you really need is the bit from the mounting point downwards from a donor.