I am planning on swapping in a tko 600 into my car soon and had some questions about what to use for a shifter. From what I know, the tko comes with a hurst shifter on it when you buy it. So, would all I need to do is buy a aftermarket shifter handle and that would be it? (Plus modify it with a drilled plate to move it back far enough). What shifter handle could I purchase that would make the shifter resemble the stock shifter? I would like it to remain at the stock shifter heigth. Any shifters you would recomend?

 

Might be an issue of personal preferance. I used to use a TKO, in my old F body, not the 600 though. My car was a FB as compared to your Camaro. I found out on my trans anyway, that a longer stock length, like the one they supplied, was not ideal. And the one supplied was just horrible, as far as shifting, and fit with a stock console goes. After playing around with a few shifters, I settled on a Pro 5 0 shifter. That was basically a short throw shifter. Cleared the console, and nice shifting. HTH.

 

Im not a fan of the short throw shifters and would prefer not to have one. Does anybody know the length of the stock shifter?

 

the stock shifter is a "short throw" shifter.

the steeda tri-ax shifter works too, just have to lengthen the handle that comes with it a little. the setback of the handle is perfect though

 

to use the supplied hurst shifter, the handles needs to be setback 2", you can do this with a steel/aluminum plate to bolt everything together, or fortes can make an offset shifter.

I have the offset shifter, and i use a hurst c3? shifter stick, the height is close to stock. That particular stick is rather expensive for some reason though. Not using this setup anymore since i changed ot a tri-ax.

the stock hurst and the vette stick

hurst 538-7991 stick, i think


fortes offset shifter thingy


somebodys trans with a setback stick, dont know if it works or hits anything

 

how is the stock shifter a short throw... i would love an actual short throw for my car but can never find one... had a short throw in one of my old cars and your barely had to flick your wrist to shift.....

 

im talking about the one on the tko600, as for the t5, there are plenty available for it.

 

pls send me a link if you have one i cant find anything... especially local... cant even find a used 350 block .

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/B-M-4...Q5fAccessories

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HUU-3915032/

 

unfortunately for me neither of those will ship to canada

 

well this suxs... b&m doesnt have any in stock nor does hurst right on their website.... anyone got one they want to sell !!!

 

summit wont ship to canada?

 

well summit wont take my credit card cause its a prepaid and i dont have a regular one... dont really like spending money i dont have.. i would prefer ebay because they have paypal and my paypal just echecks out of my account..... since when did everything require a damn credit card got money in the bank i cant even spend so stupid