What is a good short throw shifter?

[99'EclipseGS]

So I just went to the shop to get my car looked at cause I had a hard time getting into 1st and second and my mechanic told me that a short throw shifter was installed and it wasn't from me so obviously the previous owner, he said it must have been a cheap eBay one. So I'm looking around for other short throw shifter to repace it, any ideas for quality but at a low price. Is B&M good? What about fidanza?

 

[asrdave]

i like b&m short shifters
+1 b&m

 

[black_gst]

I have a fidanza and i like it no problems

 

[welfle18]

haha well I made one from the stock shifter by cutting and welding it back together. Cheap too if you had access to a stock one mine works awesome and is a shorter throw then any aftermarket one ive seen. Just my .02

 

[jeff24680]

Love my B & M with my weighted Razo Short knob, symborski shifter stiffners and CNC machined bushings on the cables. Throws are like rifle shots. I used the 35% reduction throw

 

[TheOctane]

Love my B & M with my weighted Razo Short knob, symborski shifter stiffners and CNC machined bushings on the cables. Throws are like rifle shots. I used the 35% reduction throw

can you expand on this description?

 

[99gst214]

I run a B&M at 50% throw reduction and love it. With prothane shifter plate bushings. Definetly worth the money. I think i got mine a VR speed factory with the bushings it was somthing like $170 shipped!!!

 

[NeMiZiS]

Your having a hard time getting it into gear and your mechanic told you it was your shifter?
Sounds funny to me even if it is a e-bay one which are identical to the b&M short throws, why would it all of the sudden become hard to get into gear.
Sounds more like a synchro problem to me.
Or maybe it just wasn't installed properly?

 

[DSMDriver69]

So I just went to the shop to get my car looked at cause I had a hard time getting into 1st and second and my mechanic told me that a short throw shifter was installed and it wasn't from me so obviously the previous owner, he said it must have been a cheap eBay one. So I'm looking around for other short throw shifter to repace it, any ideas for quality but at a low price. Is B&M good? What about fidanza?

B&M and Fidanza are both good shifters. So which ever one you can get cheaper go with that.

haha well I made one from the stock shifter by cutting and welding it back together. Cheap too if you had access to a stock one mine works awesome and is a shorter throw then any aftermarket one ive seen. Just my .02

How much did you cut out of it?

 

[NeMiZiS]

Before this turns into another, "how I cut my shifter and made it look like a short throw thread"....
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/appearance-interior-exterior/360511-my-custom-shifter-pics.html

 

[welfle18]

How much did you cut out of it?

I am not sure if you were to look at the factory shifter there is a curve in the middle of it i cut all the straight parts off. My shifter goes to the bottom of the stereo, maybe an inch and a half above the trim. I like it and well it was free. I also have the shifter plate bushings too.

 

[99'EclipseGS]

Your having a hard time getting it into gear and your mechanic told you it was your shifter?
Sounds funny to me even if it is a e-bay one which are identical to the b&M short throws, why would it all of the sudden become hard to get into gear.
Sounds more like a synchro problem to me.
Or maybe it just wasn't installed properly?

thats what i thought it was too a synchro problem but that's not what he said, idk i'm not a mechanic =/ but i don't think it was installed properly because i been driving the car for two years and it was perfectly fine

 

[TurboATM]

I run a B&M at 50% throw reduction and love it. With prothane shifter plate bushings.

i had pretty much the same thing, with a weighted knob...it was aammmaazzzziiinnnggggg