SST back for upshift mod

[pektel]

And... buttons are switched. Going to need another light bulb to get the - button to illuminate better, but that's easy.

Anyways, the pictures:

After tearing out the console and shifter base:

You have to dremel out the plastic rivets, as pointed out here:

Then you are able to separate the black piece from the white base. The buttons are held underneath the black base by double sided tape along one side, and noted here:

Next, is cutting the buttons with a cutting wheel on the dremel. I took a good 5 minutes deciding how to do this. The goal is to make sure that the plastic touches, so the light can still shine through. If not, no big deal. Lights are easy to add

Use a couple spots of epoxy to hold the buttons in place.

Next reassemble everything. Use epoxy in the old rivet locations. Let dry, and reinstall in car. Done

Before:

After:

 

[lincoln00]

wait a minute... you set it to up shift by pulling back and down shift by pushing up.....


To each is own i guess.....

 

[lincoln00]

:lol: Cuz the LS is that powerful!

Yea really... 14 second car has so much pull its hard to push up on the shifter to up shift LOL.....


this is what happens when a car has lack of aftermarket MODS..... people get bored and cant stop :q:q:q:qing with :q:q:q:q, so they fix stuff that's not broken....

 

[Aquabrit]

What's wrong with customizing to personal taste? Many people prefer to pull towards them for shifting up. Looks like a good mod to me.

 

[jolinc01]

Wait a minute there's lights in there?! Yet 1 more thing that needs fixed on mine!

 

[lincoln00]

lol thats fine to personalize... but to justify it with Einstein theroy... is a little to much for me.. Dont get me wrong its kind of cool but... you wont see me wasting my time on it...

 

[SPSully]

then get the FVCK out of this thread and take your damn negativity with you!

I explained this as something that just makes more sense and is a personal preference... There is no lack of after market mods... And not all of us have 14 second cars

 

[LS4me]

Wouldn't it have been easier to just pop the buttons off and swap them?

 

[pektel]

Wouldn't it have been easier to just pop the buttons off and swap them?

It's all a single extruded piece of plastic. Buttons are integral to the rest of the piece.
I wish they would've been just single pieces to swap out. That would've been ideal.

 

[pektel]

lol thats fine to personalize... but to justify it with Einstein theroy... is a little to much for me.. Dont get me wrong its kind of cool but... you wont see me wasting my time on it...

Man, you are taking it out of context. We were just reiterating statements made by physicists regarding gravity and inertia. It didn't have a single thing to do with why we did this mod. We did it because it's more intuitive this way.

I wouldn't expect a guy like you to waste his time on it. You're too busy hitting telephone poles with vented batteries in the trunk. And even then you screw up the install. If you can't handle something as easy as a battery vent install, this is way out of your league.

 

[pektel]

And please explain what's missing in aftermarket mods for this car. It can most all be done. Just because there's not a direct bolt on kit, doesn't mean it's not possible.

really the only thing we can't do (and still have a street legal vehicle afterwards) is an engine swap, or V8 manual transmission.

 

[GWL]

Good job! When I first drove my LSE I thought that the shift patern felt backwards and was going to change it out. But after 5 years of driving I have kind of gotten used to the factory backwards shift.

 

[1LoudLS]

wow, that was a whole lot more work than a 2nd gen , did you only have one light, mine had a light on both sides and a seperate piece of plastic to direct the light, so i didnt have to worry about the pieces touching.
S W E E T N E S S

 

[FALECF4]

really the only thing we can't do (and still have a street legal vehicle afterwards) is an engine swap, or V8 manual transmission.

Why wouldn't that be street legal? People do that stuff all of the time so what would make it so that a set-up like that in our cars wouldn't be street legal? I know it wouldn't be easy, but not the point.

EX: I know a guy who stuffed a V8 into his Fiero!

 

[1LoudLS]

...this is way out of your league.

LMAO, its the octoburn, that was like eight burns in one!

 

[pektel]

Why wouldn't that be street legal? People do that stuff all of the time so what would make it so that a set-up like that in our cars wouldn't be street legal? I know it wouldn't be easy, but not the point.

EX: I know a guy who stuffed a V8 into his Fiero!

That guy was probably able to get by with a PCM reflash. All of his stock guages still worked, right?

Because of the way the electronics work together with everything, you lose a lot of the streetability when running standalone modules for engine/trans with the LS. Can you still drive it down the street? Yes. But you would lose the speedometer/odometer/guage cluster. Also, I don't even think the airbag will work anymore, but I could be wrong. I am not the expert on this, Quik is. I suppose most anything is POSSIBLE with enough $$$$, but I would think that one would buy a faster vehicle to begin with instead of spending that much on getting similar performance out of an LS.

Disclaimer: All I was doing was trying to recall Quik's statements about why the engine swap would not work, at least beeing street legal. I very well could have misunderstood why it does not work.

 

[rainjacks]

Man, you are taking it out of context. We were just reiterating statements made by physicists regarding gravity and inertia. It didn't have a single thing to do with why we did this mod. We did it because it's more intuitive this way.

I wouldn't expect a guy like you to waste his time on it. You're too busy hitting telephone poles with vented batteries in the trunk. And even then you screw up the install. If you can't handle something as easy as a battery vent install, this is way out of your league.

And we're just screwing around anyway. Where's the harm in that?

 

[jolinc01]

EX: I know a guy who stuffed a V8 into his Fiero!

I know a guy who has 3 of them right now. He's done 6 of them. 32v Northstar V8 in them all. Nice rides.

 

[LS4me]

It's all a single extruded piece of plastic. Buttons are integral to the rest of the piece.
I wish they would've been just single pieces to swap out. That would've been ideal.

OK, 'nother question. What about cutting the buttons off the base then gluing them back on? Would that have been even more trouble? I've been contemplating doing this but haven't made the time......

 

[pektel]

The only issue with that is you will be permanently removing some of the thickness (the width of whatever blade/cutting wheel you are using). I suppose you could, but I don't think the buttons would sit flush with the shifter base when re-installed.

Does that make sense? Just wondering if I'm explaining it right.

 

[ToeCutter]

Man, you are taking it out of context. We were just reiterating statements made by physicists regarding gravity and inertia. It didn't have a single thing to do with why we did this mod. We did it because it's more intuitive this way.

I wouldn't expect a guy like you to waste his time on it. You're too busy hitting telephone poles with vented batteries in the trunk. And even then you screw up the install. If you can't handle something as easy as a battery vent install, this is way out of your league.

WORD......













*owned*

 

[LS4me]

The only issue with that is you will be permanently removing some of the thickness (the width of whatever blade/cutting wheel you are using). I suppose you could, but I don't think the buttons would sit flush with the shifter base when re-installed.

Does that make sense? Just wondering if I'm explaining it right.

I see what you mean. Maybe use an Xacto blade instead of Mr. Dremel.

I'm going to have to mull this over........

 

[lincoln00]

then get the FVCK out of this thread and take your damn negativity with you!

I explained this as something that just makes more sense and is a personal preference... There is no lack of after market mods... And not all of us have 14 second cars

oh wait im sorry... you have a 13 second car... your such a better man then me LOL! come to the central valley... i got a 4cyl Mustang that will had you your ass!

 

[lincoln00]

Man, you are taking it out of context. We were just reiterating statements made by physicists regarding gravity and inertia. It didn't have a single thing to do with why we did this mod. We did it because it's more intuitive this way.

I wouldn't expect a guy like you to waste his time on it. You're too busy hitting telephone poles with vented batteries in the trunk. And even then you screw up the install. If you can't handle something as easy as a battery vent install, this is way out of your league.

your funny now were going to take shot at each other.....ok.........

ok i can rewire a hole car but i cant rewire a :f u c k ing stupid electric shifter to shift a different way... you act like you have never wrecked a car ... you guys are funny, i made a simple comment on I wont do it... and you act like I'm talking s h i t... you open a thread doing something like this, your always going to get positive and negative post... you dont like it dont post your weekend tweak jobs!

and yes I SAID LACK OF mods... YOU CANT do anything else to your 13 second LS so your now trying to find other ways to justify your mods!

 

[lincoln00]

And please explain what's missing in aftermarket mods for this car. It can most all be done. Just because there's not a direct bolt on kit, doesn't mean it's not possible.

really the only thing we can't do (and still have a street legal vehicle afterwards) is an engine swap, or V8 manual transmission.

you know nothing... you can do any engine swap and itcan be street legal... its called a referee... LETS see no cams... no upgrade crankshafts no aftermarket gears... one cat back exhaust, no aftermarket throttle bodies, no intake manifolds, no cylinders heads, headers, mid pipes, you want me to keep going???