Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Originally Posted by CHEVYBOY

Don,
on that note i figured out what im going to do with my shifter also ( old school race look it will match my grill and and the visor)

Harmon

Ok Harmon, don't keep us in suspense. What have you decided to make it out of? Have you worked out the details yet???


I went over and started to work on my shifter tonight. I didn't get a whole lot done because it took quite a bit of digging around in all of my hidden stash of leftover parts and stuff to find some components to build it. Once I had some of the most important parts I began to make the main brace that will bolt the shifter assembly to the transmission.

I can't take full credit for this part of the buiild. I pirated part of it from the way Lokar and Gennie do theirs, and part of it from a gallery on CHR. I wish I could remember whose gallery it was, because I'd like to thank him, but I liked the ideas in his shifter.

I bent up the main support out of 1/4 inch x 2 strap iron, and used the same pulley idea I used to bend up the driveshaft hoops. However, the contour of the trans is different than the other ones, so I dug out a bigger pulley to give me a bigger radius.

Here is how I bent up the flat stock after heating it with the torch.