Happy Birthday Paul!!
You did such a nice job with the twistee's You should come by the house and straighten out my shift boot mess.--joe

 

THANK YOU my friend!

LOL nothing like a twisty tie to save the day

Joe after seeing your car up close I know for a fact there is nothing that is mess on, in, or around your amazing car.

 

Thanks, but I received notification this morning that it has already been shipped. Hopefully he checked it before he sent it

 

He drilled mine Monday and shipped same day. Hopefully he drilled yours too. If not, just drill the hole to 1/2 inch.

 

The GM licensed part refers to the shift **** with the embedded Corvette C5 logo. The C5 adapter itself is similar to the ones sold on other sites and can be purchased separately, if you prefer. I believe the thread size on the **** and adapter is 16mm x 1.50.

 

Yeah, I knew that. The **** was my concern because the vendor had other black C5 logo ***** listed as "GM Licensed". The other vendor advertised the **** included in his kit as GM Licensed, that's why I was wondering if there was any difference. You are correct about the thread size.

 

What's the best method to keep the shift **** from rotating? My kit didn't come with any type of jam lock nut to keep the **** in place. I'm not able to find anything in the correct thread size at any of the local hardware stores either.

 

Mine takes a 16mm.

 

I ended up buying a 16mm x 1.50 nut from the adapter vendor. I'l have to paint it black to match the shifter adapter color.

 

Got mine Fri, but the jam nut I received was the wrong size. I called the vendor and he's shipping me out another one. I thought that the jam nut is covered by the black "cover" that came with the adapter. I guess I'll find out when I install mine. Waiting for my new Nappa leather arm rest cover, shift and E-brake boot to arrive

 

I have the same adapter and I wasn't too happy with the shifter's height afterward so I came up with this mod and posted this it a couple of years ago . . .

I was thinking about the situation with the C5 A4 shifter height with something aftermarket so I thought I'd try something a little different.

A quick trip to Jo-ann Etc got me a 2.5" solid maple wood ball (actually a "****" in craft store lingo) which should do the trick as I don't have access to any sort of polymer ball.

Wooden ball and the "plan"


Three stages of finishing and drilled out ball


Some test fitting (including my big paw)


Finished product


All told, i did five coats of gloss black, three coats clearcoat, and finally three coats of polyurethene (with lots of wet sanding).

The finish is nearly mirror-like

It isn't a particularly difficult project and if you have any sort of artistic ability (or access to a polymer ball), I'm sure you could come up with something more sophisicated designwise using the basic fabrication proceedure.

I've had this installed for two years now and I haven't ever had any problem will it loosening up or causing any sort of problem.

 

Well hot damn... aren't you the smarty! That's an awesome idea! And your results are incredible. I'm shocked that you got that kind of a finish from one of those wood *****. This gives me an idea. I have a ball mold that I made to make a clear resin custom ball for a pimp cane a while back (don't ask ) I bet we could take your wooden ball or make one like it then make a rubber mold of it and me able to make any kind of color or even inbedded item in one that we wanted!

 

I guess Im retarded but I cant get that boot off from underneath the white retaining clip. i almost want to take some cutters and snip the tie wrap and cut the boot a little..

Can someone post pictures of the adapter they received? I dont have pictures but it seems like it would be too big. Its a large silver stainless adapter with only 1 set screw.. i hope i didnt get the wrong one

Thanks

 

Mine is black and looks like this https://www.speeddawg.com/sites/defa...er%20Kit_0.jpg

If it looks like this one, sounds like you may have an adapter for a C4. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/m/m-Y7aU...1xQ/s-l225.jpg

 

awww sure enough... it looks like the c4 one
guess Ill return in. Glad I checked before hacking things apart

 

Installed the adapter on my automatic shifter last night. Had to drill it out. Wrapped the threaded in with duct tape so threads were not damaged clamped into drill press vice. I set the depth on my press so I didn't go any deeper than needed. Doesn't take much material out but this has to be done to make it work.

 

Here's the result of mine..

 

Looks good did you have to drill the adapter out to 1/2 inch ?

 

I don't know if I had to but it was pretty tight so I did drill it or a little bit

 

I just installed mine last night. No pictures yet, but it looks like Rj-Lo's only in blue pearl.

I'm a bit concerned with the final result though. Doesn't seem like the **** is very solidly installed. It all works well, but if I lift up on it, I can pull the whole unit off the gear lever.... Am I missing something here? Tighten the set screws more?

And is there nothing you can do (glue?) to keep that black cap from spinning and lifting?