T-handle shifter swap?

[rogue_ryder]

Just curious if anyone has swapped out their T-Handle console shifter "knob" to a ball style or camaro/firebird style? Obviously many here have swapped out for B&Ms, Hurst and the Killduff but I'm talking a cheap knob/button swap not a $300+ entire shifter swap.

This looks cool (but is for early A-bodies):
http://www.shiftworks.com/cutlas.htm

2nd Gen Camaro:
https://fbodywarehouse.com/store/19...shifter-knob-set-gm-unit.html?category_id=197

Not sure if 3rd gen would work:
http://www.hawksmotorsports.com/82-...-to-manual-transmission-shifter-knob-adapter/

 

[81cutlass]

Crappy picture, not sure if it will load because its a photobucket copy any paste from a local guy I know. Regardless, in the picture below there is a 4th gen firebird shifter handle on a T type stock shifter arm.

He used a 4th gen firebird handle, for whatever reason its turned 90 degrees here?

So yeah, if you want to go with something less obnoxious, a camaro one is a bit better fit.

 

[565bbchevy]

I personally have always like the T handle style, it feels more ergonomically correct especially in my Monte where I have to constantly shift up and down.
To me I feel like my hand just rests naturally on the T handle.

 

[Mike P]

I used a Pilot shift knob PM 2112S (there are a bunch of them on E Bay). It’s all aluminum…..on mine, I bead blasted the handle to give it a little “tooth” and painted it interior color.


PM 2112S by M Patterson, on Flickr



Don’t mind the dust SOMEBODY had left the window down yesterday and a big old dust devil went thru the area. LOL



PM by M Patterson, on Flickr




I did have to add a simple bushing to the top of the shaft so the handle didn’t wobble (just a couple pieces if PCV pipe fit into one another to take up the slop. Works really nice and is comfortable.



PM 1 by M Patterson, on Flickr


I sent you a PM


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[tc1959]

Leather wrapped Cadillac Allante shift handle.