Celica Forums General Discussion Interior Carbon Fiber shift knob [PICS]

hey guys/girls, What do you think of my new carbon fiber shift knob. I like it alot.

Got it off ebay for $25

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nice...very nice...

so what do you guys think? it came with a small mark on the bottom but I just turned it toward the radio so I can't see it. The company offered to replace it but I live in Canada so it would cost me as much to buy a new one than it would to ship back and pay duty on it again when it came back to Canada again.

looks good

looks good bro -

looks nice

nice , if i didnt have a expensive leather one i'd get one of those

sweet! never seen one before

yeah had a nice MOMO silver two piece one before but withing 2 yrs it had totally turned to shit. I was not impressed with the quality on it. the finish totally rubbed off the edges!

clean your floor mat! hehehe... nice knob

MMMMM! I want one! What's the guy's eBay username?

I bought it from "at-motorsports". I really like it.

I know about the mats!!! DAMN WINTER, it's almost over then the carpet can go back in... I can't wait!

idk i like mine better

i had one almost identical but I really didn't like the shape in the Celica so I sold it to my buddy.

very toight

mine..

^ i luv that knob

awomse buddy, looks great. well whiel everoyne else is posting :

you guys need some shortshifters.


This is how mine is.

^^^^ holy shit that looks short!

Very nice shifter Satoshi and Hombre. Personally I like the sphere style better for the Celica. Hombre your looks good though cause it's bigger, the one I had like that was too small, it looked too pointy.

yups...floor mats look hella dirty


shift knob looks tight

that trd shift knob is nice.

the carbon fiber one is nice but it reminds me of a disco ball.

nice...your floormats need a good cleaning though, looks like youve been getting the same shitty weither we have

Oh yeah, that's like 5 months of our weather here. There's no way I'm gonna scrub those shitty rubber mats when they'll look like that within a week again. They come out near the end of March anyway to put the nice clean carpet back in. Gotta love winter weather!

i like it !!!

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where did you get that??? i want one of those

Isaac, I can see through the packaging those NRG knobs use the 3 allen thread approach to fastening onto the shifter...this has not worked for me in the past with 4 different aftermarket products from Billet, Pepboys etc. They all became loose from the heat and vibration, and the allen threads eventually stripped from the constant torquing down.

If someone has a better approach, I'd love to hear it...otherwise I'm convinced the only durable aftermarket shiftknob needs to have the Celi thread pattern (5/16"?) and screw right onto the shifter.

yea for the longest time my knob woudl come loose after 5 min of shifting. but the prblem was the thred was to high so i had to take out that little white stopper on the shifter so i coudl lower the knob. now its threaded in and alen wrenched. it says you dont have a SS so i am assuming you havent taken out the little white piece. try it may help. if nto then i am no help I was goign to try locktight on the screws before i took out the white thing

b&m universal shift knobs work great, they thread to the specific shifter, never had any problem...cept now, theres no thread since i shortened it and cant find a die that big

ssinserts had a nice chrome/carbon fiber shifter, and it had "universal threading" bushings. A great concept, except the fittings were frikkin plastic! After I torqued it down the metal threads on the Celi's shifter owned the plastic threads. I ended up throwing te $50 knob into the woods after it came completely apart from all the torqueing.

I advised the sllers that the plastic was poorly conceived and engineered, and they denied it was plastic! WTF!! Whatever you call it, it's mega-softer than metal, and the metal won!

Thanks - Much appreciated