Right now im at shool since school started Monday anywasy right now im on my cell phone posting thsi but my question is this kid i know has an integra and some of my other friend have civics and he has a short shifter in his car. but he told me tht it was the fatory one that he cut to make it shorter. my question is can it work like that, can u cut the factory shifter to make it shorter which will make it a short shifter?

i drove his intergra and it felt pretty good. anyway i have to go to football practice so please reply soon

 

it doesnt matter how long the upper part of the shifter is, i think its the difference in how far the pivot ball at the bottom of the shifter is from the bearing attached to the shift linkage

 

^ you sir are correct. short shifter puts the pivot point higher on the shifter there for you dont have to move top of the shifter as far and the bottom where it bolts to the shift linkage moves the same distance as before. for ex. take a straw hold it with two fingers so it can pivotabout 1in from the bottom and move the top you have to move the top farther to make the bottom movenow hold the straw about 2-3in and you dont have to move the top of the straw as far as before and the bottoms moves the same amount of distance. so no cutting the top off doesnt make it a short shifter

 

thanks

 

Cutting the top is a personal preference but I do think it will help very little.

 

Well, if you want to be "technical" about it, the guy that cut his stock shifter has a short shifter which is purely for aesthetic purposes. The shifter that people get for shorter shift distance is a short throw shifter. Most people leave out the word throw because it takes longer to say.

So, yeah, the douche has a short shifter, but it isn't doing anything. Call him a douche for me, lol.

 

^^^ lol