i decided to buy a new shifter handle for my B&M since mine is far from being able to polish up so i spent 20 bucks and got a new alumin one and polished it up in 2 hours and then painted the red insert they had around the letters black.

 

u can see in the first picture were the ruff none polished part was and where i polished it.

 

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at least he didnt say he polished his **** looks good man

 

i did a pretty good job considerin my brother said i couldnt do it by hand

 

lol i know i had to think of something to say different.

heres the final result with it totally done. i just took these pics 2 mins ago

 

last one

 

ah just take the buffin wheel to it lol

 

hey all i did was grab a few old rags, the mothers polish and went and watched monster garage

 

Nice job man...real nice. Ill have you agree with what someone suggested to me though....mothers is a great product...dont get my wrong....but i went out and tried Blue magic metal and wheel polish....and WOW......what a difference.....i could see myself perfectly in it........really does make a difference....it was a lil harder to get off...but once you do....man....major improvement. IMO though.......

 

yea we have the blue magic and my brother tryed it in the garage but it didnt do much so i used the mothers. maybe ill try the blue magic before i put it on the car.

 

hey that looks great!! good job

 

Looks awesome man! Looks so good....I wouldn't wanna touch it..! I want one of the B&M Mega Shifters sooo bad......they look bad ***!

 

lol yea i know what ya mean by not touchin it. right now its wraped in a towel sittin in my room and i just hate gettin finger prints on it. i think ill by a cotten glove to drive around or something

also i dont have a megashifter , i have something made by B&M

 

sorry tryed editin in the picture but it doesnt let u do it. that picture is old. now i have a new pionerr head unit, the sterrin wheel is the same but i got a new one and its chrome and i found my shifter boot so that went back on there also

 

What kind of shifter is that?

 

i have no clue ive looked in jegs and summit but cant figure out which one it is. i just looked in the new summit and they dont have it so jegs is the one that carries it but im not sure what its called.

 

Looks good man. I had one on my B&M Ratchet Shifter that I also polsihed, but I had to switch to a plastic one. The metal got so d@mn hot after sitting in the sun for a short while I couldn't even touch it to put the car in gear. I now have a black plastic one, it looks okay but atleast I can bang gears on a hot day.

 

i think it would be worth burning the crap out of your hand to get the polished one back on there butt that is just me, i think i am going to steal the handle off of my brothers mega shifter to see if it will fit on my 5 speed, any try it so i dont get hurt or do i have to do it the HARD way.

 

wow, they charge 20 bucks for those things?

My metals instructor in high school had in the shop a mold for one of those handles, except it said hurst instead. And for the ones that turned out to be keepers, they were free . All the messed up molds went back into the scrap pile.

I look around for a picture of the beauty that I made...

 

Wow nice! How hard was it to paint that terrible red part around the B&M logo black? Could you post how you did it? I've been thinking about doing that to mine because I can't stand the crappy red paint. (Btw, I'm a moron, I have no clue how to prep or paint things.)

 

Not trying to be a d1ck, but it's your hand. Just wait for a hot summer day when your car has been sitting outside for a while. Plus the black plastic doesn't look that bad b/c it matches the rest of my black interior.

 

all i did to paint the red to black was get some black touch up paint but not the stuff u find in pepboys that stuff is to wattery. but my brother had some touch up black paint that he bought i think at strauss auto and its thick so its easier to work with. but all i did was first i used some chapstick and put it where i didnt want the paint to go and then after i got the first coat of paint on and it dryed i just cleaned off the chapstick and it worked pretty good but i tryed it with out the chapstick. all i did was paint in the spots where i wanted and when it dryed i just scraped it off with my finger nail and one of my guitar pics. hope that helps. also that black is for a hundiya or how ever u spell that crappy car.

 

That's genius! Thanks!

 

nice looking handle!!

 

also ive been down that road with the hot summer days and the handel gets really hot. all i do is put it in drive and dont worry or i take a towel and cover the entire consule and there for all it will get is alittle warm. and the plate where the ashtry used to be is alumn. so i use the towel to cover that too.