I bought a civic and was going to replace the shift **** with a skunk2 ****, when i got the other **** off i found out the the guy i bought it from had cut the stock shifter in half instead of buying a new short throw. People are telling me that it would be better to weld on a new bolt instead of buying a new short shifter, which I think I should do. So what should i do

 

Wow, umm. First, you don't have a have a short throw shifter. You have a chopped shifter. Short throw shifters reduce the distance to get the car in gear (the throw). Secondly, please don't cheap out, get a new short throw shifter.

 

Ya i know it is not a short throw, but my dad thinks it will be pointless to replace it since it is already short enough. Would it be a bad idea to keep what I have in now in or would it be a better idea to get a real short throw

 

if you have the extra money to spend on a real short sifter do that but if you dont have the money keep it

 

I say get a new one... the shifter you have now isn't doing anything other than making the **** sit lower than stock. A true short-throw shifter, like dan said, actually reduces the throw length, which is why it shifts quicker than a stock shifter. Besides, short-throws aren't that expensive.

Anyway, you can re-thread the shifter you have now, it isn't really that hard. Technically, if you want to shorten your stock shifter "the right way", you cut a section out of the straight part of the shifter and weld the two sections back together. Please tell me it didn't have electrical tape on the shifter to keep the **** from coming off... that's so ghetto lol

 

do it the right way

 

a short shifter isn't just "shorter", the distance between the pivot point on the shifter and where it meets the linkage is what makes the shifts closer together.

But yeah, get a new one. I'd say B&M just to be safe, and while you're down there replce the bushigns with poly ones.