Ok, I can't believe I'm actually doing this post but to ensure my new top plate is installed properly the first time I'm going to ask, because of the dynamat and I just want to get the new one in right on the first try.
I'm sure normally after your Gen 2 shifter is installed you go back into the car and drop in that top plate, tighten it up and you're pretty well done. Well, that was my belief also the first time but because of my Blowfish bracket my main shifter body wasn't sitting in the correct place so that threw off the proper location of the billet top plate.
So now that I have the shifter sitting properly (and in neutral), once I get the new plate dropped into the console area do I just place it so that the small opening of the rubber boot is sitting directly centered on the gold base of the shifter before tightening it down, or do I actually stretch the rubber boot over the gold base first before tightening down the top plate? Which order should I do this?
Thanks, btw my one and only beef about the product is actually the rubber boot on the top plate. The small opening that you stretch over the gold shifter base it actually doesn't stay in place. When you row the gears the small boot opening eventually pops off the gold base and just sits between the top of the base and the bottom of your screw in shifter handle.
So the change that I would like to see George make is to extend the length of the small boot opening an extra 1/8" or 1/4" then you can secure the top part with a zip tie and it will stay in place after it's stretched over the shifter base. For me, once my plate is in properly and I feel it's 100% good I'm going to tape it with electrical tape and it won't come off.
Tony
Oh yeah, for a little comic relief I should've watch this install video before doing my shifter (I know it's not the same shifter and trans but I probably would've gotten a better install result doing it the way the video showed. LMAO!!!!!)
I'm sure normally after your Gen 2 shifter is installed you go back into the car and drop in that top plate, tighten it up and you're pretty well done. Well, that was my belief also the first time but because of my Blowfish bracket my main shifter body wasn't sitting in the correct place so that threw off the proper location of the billet top plate.
So now that I have the shifter sitting properly (and in neutral), once I get the new plate dropped into the console area do I just place it so that the small opening of the rubber boot is sitting directly centered on the gold base of the shifter before tightening it down, or do I actually stretch the rubber boot over the gold base first before tightening down the top plate? Which order should I do this?
Thanks, btw my one and only beef about the product is actually the rubber boot on the top plate. The small opening that you stretch over the gold shifter base it actually doesn't stay in place. When you row the gears the small boot opening eventually pops off the gold base and just sits between the top of the base and the bottom of your screw in shifter handle.
So the change that I would like to see George make is to extend the length of the small boot opening an extra 1/8" or 1/4" then you can secure the top part with a zip tie and it will stay in place after it's stretched over the shifter base. For me, once my plate is in properly and I feel it's 100% good I'm going to tape it with electrical tape and it won't come off.
Tony
Oh yeah, for a little comic relief I should've watch this install video before doing my shifter (I know it's not the same shifter and trans but I probably would've gotten a better install result doing it the way the video showed. LMAO!!!!!)