New Vintage Speed 12" Curved Shifter

good on you eric...those things increase the smile factor X 10

Basically this is what everyone says. 

@eric   if it tends to rattle and bugs you....check @shifter upgrade from vintage speed shifter ....they make a plastic bushing that fits over the ball that goes in the turret

@jncspyder No rattles or vibrations whatsoever. We were out for an hour tonight. It needs minor adjustment. Once the car was warm, I hit third instead of first at a couple of stoplights. Only when it was warm, it cooled off during dinner, and shifted fine all the way home. A tiny nudge to the right on the base should sort it. 

I asked Vintage Speed about the nylon bushing, as it is now a $13 option when you pick their Quick shifter. They said it cannot be added to an existing unit. They did offer me some kind of assistance in selling my old (Relatively new) shifter so I can buy a brand new one! I guess the way they manufacture the quick shifter, they can’t be modded due to welds.

I found the stop plate very sensitive to adjustment. It took a few tries to get it centered.

Slightly to one side or the other, and one of the gates (1-2 or 3-4) was hard to find.

I guess each installation is a little different, but on my car, the carpet had to be carefully trimmed around the base so the whole base was sitting directly on the metal of the tunnel.

If the shifter sits just a little high, the stop plate limits the arc of the shift lever side-to-side, making at least one of the gears hard to find.

I just installed my shifter today. It took a little while to set up. 

@RacerX i was told the same thing....but they are sending me just the bushing itself....and i'll have my genius hot rod mechanic guy machine my existing shifter to accept it....should be relatively EZPZ and the result should be the same as these newer shifters

Hey can you post picts before and after when you do that mod I am sure others will appreciate knowing how the mod was done. 

@IaM-Ray  will do...it'll be awhile....part coming from taiwan...3 weeks..no hurry....i can live with my shifter as is....but this mod should be an improvement

slow boat from China, in this case Taiwan. 

@JB356SR posted:

I just installed my shifter today. It took a little while to set up. 

Same here re setting the shifter up. It has to be in the perfect place for it to work and that was tedious for me when I installed my CSP shifter..  The shifter needs to be greased every couple of years and I'm getting better with resetting it but it's still a bit tedious.

Snagged a new style Vintage Speed 12" Shifter with Bushing.

Black Friday Sale.

Will have to wait a while to get fully set up....

Very Nice.  I did not know they had a BF sale... I should of checked.

@thedak posted:

Looks great! You may have to trim the carpet so it bolts directly to the tunnel to keep it from moving out of adjustment.

@Eric (McGruff) posted:

...You may have to trim the carpet so it bolts directly to the tunnel to keep it from moving out of adjustment...

This is what I found.

One of the things that gives this shifter its 'tight' feel is a precisely cut stop plate (that limits side-to-side motion).

The angle the lever swings through changes with how high the ball is above the tunnel, and the thickness of the carpet can be enough to matter.

So, if you find you can catch the 1-2 gate, but not 3-4 (or vice versa), that may be the cause. Every car is a little different.

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Well I broke down and got one.  Love it, works great with my subie 5 speed and is very period correct and it feels much more 50' ish shifting it.  I like it a lot.  Thanks to all of you for commenting I should get one. @Stan Galat

@Sacto Mitch posted:

I found the stop plate very sensitive to adjustment. It took a few tries to get it centered.

Slightly to one side or the other, and one of the gates (1-2 or 3-4) was hard to find.

I guess each installation is a little different, but on my car, the carpet had to be carefully trimmed around the base so the whole base was sitting directly on the metal of the tunnel.

If the shifter sits just a little high, the stop plate limits the arc of the shift lever side-to-side, making at least one of the gears hard to find.

Just adding my belated agreement to this for the record.  Shortish story - I asked Greg to look at a few minor issues during my 300 mile service. One issue - occasionally I was grinding gears up shifting from 1st to 2nd (I have a Vintage Speed shifter).  It only happened when I went from reverse to 1st, then 1st to 2nd.  Greg politely told me that I need to make sure that when I come out of reverse that I need to move the shifter to the far right when in neutral to ensure the reverse lockout engages before shifting to 1st.  That was the issue (apparently I occasionally went directly from reverse to first), but his guys adjusted the stop plate a bit.  During the next handful of drives I would have problems downshifting from 3rd to 2nd, it would find fourth instead.  A few times first was hard to find.  I tried to adjust the stop plate without success, but the plate seemed to be as far right as it would go.  So I trimmed the carpet beneath the stop plate, reinstalled with the stop plate fully to the right.  Three drives around town later and all is good so far.  All gears confidently found - and no more gut wrenching, embarrassing gear grinding.

We put one on my wife's Thing. She was too short to get 3rd gear in the stock shifter.

It installed pretty easily and works fantastic. My wife vigorously shifted it, even though I explained it is a short shifter and doesn't need a lot of effort to change gears. She knocked it out of alignment and I had to readjust after a month or so. When it isn't, the reverse gate doesn't work well (or at all).

After a few months, it needs adjustment again. It's a small thing but we like the shifter a lot