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Re: Andrew's 1999 Turbo RAV4 project...	Tue, 20 May 2003 17:31

The green arrow indicates the amount of space we had to play with once the nuts were installed under the gearstick assembly. As you can see, there's 2/5th's of bugger-all room to play with there, but just enough to shift without hitting the transmission tunnel. The installation of the quickshifter. Now everything is in place and we can start working on the æsthetics and functionality of the stick a bit more. We measured out the best place to put the mounting adapter for the gearknob (that silver looking collar on the stick, with the grubscrews hanging out of it), and marked the stick above the knob mount for cutting. I wanted to have a shorter gearstick so my leg didn't keep on hitting it once it was in 5th gear. To do this, we got a piece of cardboard and poked through the top of the quickshifter to the point where it was going to be cut. We cut about 49mm off the stick, and yes that included the threaded portion too. This wasn't needed - and I'll tell you why shortly. I cut the original purple anodised garnish basically in half, and decided that if it was going to work out, then I had to give it my best guestimate. Take a close look at this pic - seen Star Wars: Episode II? Remember Master Wundo (Samuel L. Jackson)? I loved that purple light sabre. The flash effect going through the garnish makes it look kind of like that light sabre. We cut the top off the new shifter and located the purple garnish on some tape, stuck to the new shifter. Once this was in place, we fitted the threaded gearknob adapter on top of the garnish. The reason why I don't need the threaded part of the gearstick is because I'm not using it. The thickness of the quickshifter's shaft is almost precisely that of the internal diameter of the gearknob adapter, meaning that it doesn't need a plastic sleeve for the grubscrews to adapt to it, like it did before. One thing we DID have to do is file out sections of the stick for where the grubscrews would bite into the quickshifter. If these hadn't been done, then the gearknob would not sit in place. The grubscrews go through the gearknob adapting thread, so if they poke out at all, the gearknob won't screw down all the way. Replace the lower console (with the aluminium surround already attached, and the gearboot on the surround), put the 5 screws back in their places, ash tray, wiring for neons and switches, etc... put the gearknob onto the adapter nice and tight, and VOILA!! It's complete. Total time taken to do this portion of the project: About 5 hours (this includes all the necessary head-scratching, swearing, cursing, trying to decipher Japanese instructions, etc.) For a JDM RAV4, this would probably take about an hour to do. The end result is a much sportier feel and a whole new learning process on how to work with a quickshifter. It's very stiff, virtually no play in the gears, and makes for a very interesting time of trying to double-clutch through gears. For a JDM RAV4, it's probably 30% shorter throws through the gears, but mine feels like about 50% shorter. This is probably because I cut the shifter to the size I wanted too. Enjoy - hope you all like it. [Report message to a moderator]

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