OK, because I have the Calmini 3" body lift, I have to bend my stick a bit.  The BEST place to bend it, as far as I can see, is just above the tranny, where it currently is bent - by "unbending" the steel, it should work best.

How the heck do I do that?  I have a new (to me) stock stick.  I'm reluctant to heat it, because it LOOKS like 2 inches above the bend, the solid steel goes into a tubular steel piece, and there appears to be rubber between the two pieces.  Any ideas?  Some kind of big honking bender?  A BFH?  I want to do THIS one right!

I heated mine and bent it further up and YES it does have rubber in there and it dies STINK real bad. I did not notice it untill to late so I kept heating and bent it in the first bend in the rubbery part.

Zig

Oh yea, it does quit stinking not to long after burning it.

why bend, when you can extend...

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why bend, when you can extend...

I wouldn't pretend
to comprehend

What did you do, cut it in half, and stuff it in a piece of steel tubing?  What size?  Info mang, give me the 411 on this!!!

so what does it look like when it is back in.

When I did my levers I extended them 3" from the bottom instead from the top, like Calmini tells you too.

If you extend from the bottom everything fits in like it was stock.

The only problem I have (which I can easily correct but I'm too lazy) is that the top boot on my tranny shifter is pretty tight, and it makes the shifter pop out of gear when its in 2nd and fourth.  All I have to do is pull the shifter out again and bend it a tiny bit upwards, but I don't really care.

I just finished up (finally) extending my shifters from the bottom side. Works much better... puts it at stock rather than the fucked up feel that the Calmini method has... Plus I can actually use my old shifter boots now! Woo! No more holes in the floor!

I wouldn't pretend
to comprehend

What did you do, cut it in half, and stuff it in a piece of steel tubing?  What size?  Info mang, give me the 411 on this!!!

Basically, yah...

Take shifter, cut in 2 pieces (on bottom end), weld in 3" piece of rod/tube (something that won't bend when you jam the gears, weld back together.

The only 'wierd-ness' is your shifter throw travels a little further.  But if fits in the stock opening just fine.

~Nate