interested in potentially purchasing one of these for my 88 305.. reasons for getting one vs reasons for not getting one? pros and cons? does anyone have one for sale? they are about 180 shipped to my door.

thanks in advance.

 

A member had one posted up this morning. Jerry's a good guy, dealt with him before
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/engi...ht=B%26amp%3BM

 

thank you!
however for some reason i do not have permission to reply to his thread? maybe cause i am a newbie to the forum . maybe you can post in his thread a link to this thread? thank you !

 

if you do not plan to race, it will be more of a pita than anything, imo
they are big and bulky and do not help anything for street driving, and if i remember right, they do not fit all that well in the stock hole in the console ... it is mostly just to make shifting into the next gear a little safer (as in not going into 3rd from 1st) so you do not lose to many rpms ... to me, if i didn't have a manual valve body i would not want another one

 

You try sending a PM? Click on his ID for a dropdown of options.

 

well, i stand corrected on the fitment, that looks like a nice fit

 

Nice fit, I wouldn't do it to my car though. Just my opinion. I feel bad enough having a firebird T handle on it, but I hated the ball type.

 

haha, i am getting an old style ball shift **** for my 89

 

Just not ergonomic. T feels better in the hand. As for drawbacks on the B&M, it doesn't have the ignition lockout provision does it? That means it can be shifted with the key off and the key can be removed in gear.

 

i did send him a pm about 20 minutes ago, no response.

 

LOL Patience. He may not be sitting and waiting on it. He has a few things for sale, I'm sure he will get back to you by tomorrow.

 

10-4 thanks for help

 

It does have a neutral safety switch, as well as a switch for the reverse lights, and if installed correctly it will only start in park or neutral and the reverse lights will light up only in reverse. I've had two, the first worked well for a while until it jammed up. I replaced it with another of the same model, and had issues with it. I could get it to go down to 1st gear, but it wouldn't engage park, if I adjusted it so that it would engage park I couldn't get 1st gear. Wasn't ever really happy with it after that.

 

You misunderstood what I said. Neutral safety is one thing, Ignition switch lockout is another. From the factory, if the key is in the off position, you can't move the shifter from park. Likewise, if the shifter is in any other gear than park, you can't remove the key or go all the way to the off position.

 

You know, it's been a few years but as far as I can remember you can hook up the cable that goes to the ignition lock.

 

I just know a member had a thread where he was installing one and couldn't hook it up last week or so. Wasn't sure if he just couldn't figure out where or it had no place for it. Maybe someone else can chime in.