Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior shift gate

Hey everyone, someone showed me this pic fropm ecelica and i really want to knwo where the perosn bought this or made it. If the pic doesnt show up, tis a shift gate liek they have in ferraris

wow thats really nice!

i think its custom made

thats waht i was afraid of. If anyone knows this guy i want to ask if he cna have another made. sure it will cost some big $$ though

nevermind i foudn the guy. apparently lots of peopel ahve been asking him to amke them and he isnt. man i wish he woudl do a group buy of that.

thats off the hook

too bad a ferrari's shifter is all metal and the gate/boot thing is longer in length 4 each gear...

definately something i want to do someday

here is somthing similar...

http://www.mgracing.an/gearshiftknobs/gear_shifters.htm

if only it was for celica.

its custom, its a greman dude i dont rember his name but he has an web page to

i tried making one theres a post around here somwhere about it .. but i made one but the gates would have been so close that it wouldn't have been gates it would jsut be a square ..
now i also have a short shifter so a stock shifter might give you enough room to make one if so make it it literaly took me like 2 hours to cut and fit one in there

it's from a new guy who posted in the new member forum...

that's really cool

yea i saw the post, its under pics and videos, jsut search +shift +gate and you will find it. how did you make urs? out of what?? and how did you find out where to have the indents. I have a stock one so probably mroe room to have the indents.

well i started out with piece of paper took off my bootand with the shifter in first ramed the paper down and around so there was a hole and then i also trace and cut out the paper to a 1/4 inch around where the boot attaches (1/4 beyond the shifter) then put the sifter in second got that hole and you can imagine how to do the rest of the gears
then you have a really rough template i then used some metal (tin sheet) and took the rough outline of everything from the rough template and copied it on to the tin went back to the car and would make adjustments from there till i had the final one which was jsut baiscally a hole you can tell right away if it is gonna work or not i jsut went thru it with mine to show people why it wouldn't work for me

looking at that one he has im gonna have to raise the question flag i can't see that working if i can see pictures of it in 1st and 3rd and 5th he'll have my applause

Damn, thats nice. I want one

he is in germany, i emailed him today asking aobut it. you can ask him for pics of 1st 3rd and 5th if you want.

i think it coudl be easy to make like his if you had the tools. My dad has a dino ferrari and it has a real gate, but the gates are very long where as this guys are jsut little indents. I think it woudl be easier to use the little indents then the long gates. Alos woudl probably work best for non short shifters.

That looks really nice. Man, I want one...

it agrevates me to no end when people don't read

I think it would get in the way...

hey drkramm sorry i didnt see ur previous post. sounds simplet enough. how did you makr the hole for the gears, i really didnt understand. do you push it down over it again? did you use liek 7 peices of paper to then compile them into 1 template? Glad someone tried it. btw where did you ge the tin sheet? Thanks foir all your help. Hopefulyl becsaue i dont have a short sifter it may work.

i doubt it will work cause if you take your boot off you can see the pivot ball of the shifter is very cloase to the height of the plasticarind the shifter..
but to answer your questions i used one pice of paper and a pen i would put it in first and use the pen to force a hole for the shifter then you could also actualy tape the template down and then slowel cut the paper to shape as you move the shifter
and tin and home improvement store some art stores will have it too any type of metal sheet will work as long as its rigid enough to hold its shape but easy to cut and bend

thanks allot drk. i am going to try it when i go home for christmas. i am stuck here for thanksgivig, damn RA job. ok thansk again. I will let you kwno if it worked or not. I tlaked ot the guy in germany and he said it woudl cost to much to have him amke it and shipp it here, so i guess i am alone int his venture Thanks agian everyone for your help.