Short throw shifter. Why?
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because this is how these cars should shift right from the factory. Shifts more like an exotic now. Click, click, click.... it's a huge improvement. 5 years running B&M here..would never think of going back or not doing it to my next one.
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
I removed everything inside to pull the my 4+3 tunnel patch out and exposed the entire rear end of the tranny, but it didn't help one damn bit. What a waste of time that was.
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Yes, 9/16"X18, I bought the Husrt billet plus, largely beacuse it was the recommended shifter of my forum inquiry, not installed yet, waiting till I pull the trans and do he clutch.
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ok, I bought the B&M shifter about 3 months ago and still have not installed it...the dealership wanted to charge me $350 to install it! I want to install it myself but do not want to drop the tranny, is there any way I can install my shifter and easier way?
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FWIW...Bill Boudreau aka ZFDoc installed my B&M in under 3 hours (and that's including doing his mod to the B&M which eliminates virtually all of the side to side & front to back play)...by himself. Yeah, I was there but he was a one man army on that job. He didn't even drop the exhaust. 
Guess that's why they call him the "ZFDoc". 
Guess that's why they call him the "ZFDoc".
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
I did it with the exhaust on, but I have an 85, so it may be different clearancewise than yours, and it made it way harder to install the shifter, trying to hammer a pin into a shifter shaft at an angle when the shaft wants to spring to a vertical position.
It's a one man job, just tedious work.
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