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@slowshoes posted:Thanks for those photos Mitch - as Marty said, it does look like a bit of a reach. I'm going to take a look at the standard shift in my car from those same angles and see how it compares.
I've read in an older thread that the carpet needs to be trimmed from under the base to keep the plate from moving out of position. Did you find this to be the case for you?
Bill
Bill, despite how it may look, it's not a long reach - I don't have to lean forward off the seat back. One of the things that's sometimes overlooked in placing a shifter is how close or far the knob ends up from the steering wheel - and this seems to be perfect.
Or, for me, at least. I'm only 5'10", so keep the seat a little more forward than if I were over six feet.
The Alfa's of the sixties had this really strange looking shifter that came out of the base of the dash and seemed too long - until you actually drove the car. Then it all made sense. The knob ended up just a few inches from the wheel and was just right. The same thing is true here.
Also, that old thread about trimming the carpet may have been mine - that's exactly what we had to do. We couldn't get the 1-2 and 3-4 gates to work at the same time until the carpet was trimmed and the base of the shifter sat directly on the metal of the tunnel.
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