so I read up on how to unlock 1st gear on my Z-28

[IndianScout]

after putting in a custom boot (I'll post pics in a minute) I had to try it out in the driveway and lit them up, people 2 blocks over came driving by saying I was smoking them out, I kinda roasted my brand new tires but oh well I had to test it out.

it's wasn't 15 mins later the cops came driving by and hung around my street for over an hour..

wife asked what I was doing, I told her, "90 in the driveway" hahahahahaha

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[IndianScout]

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on the shifter if you head to the wrecking yard grab a shifter handle and boot from any gm, grand am, grans prix and such, remove the plastic from the bottom side of the boot and hand mold it around the u shape of the shifter housing then put it back together and message it into how you want it to look, stick on the T handle and your done.. I've done this to all 3 of my Camaro's I can't stand the metal bar sticking up nor the shift handle they come with.. These are leather also..

[Ibanezz]

I have done the same mod. Even more to it, you can buy an auto to manual adapted that gives you the same size threads as fbodies, and can put any manual shifter knob on. Found at afterthoughtsauto.com for $20 or so

I think I got my boot from a Monte carlo? Matched my interior better. The grand prixs and stuff looked too " fake leathery"

[Ibanezz]

Here's it without the boot, just the adapter and Hurst t handle. I'm not too happy with this set up because the t handle is point too far forward. May switch to something else. Only thing that doesn't fit is the SLP knobs. Since it slides over. I bought jaysz28's SLP knob and didn't want to cut into it so I traded.for this.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/31/vaqabupa.jpg

Knob and boot,
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/31/y6eqenen.jpg

[IndianScout]

can't stand the look of the bare metal shifter it looks like shit and I can't believe GM sold them to us like that..

[Ibanezz]

Yeah and the sliding pieces. Absolute garbage. Hate the look, hate the sound. And they are a pain to clean. With the boot you remove em all but the one that does the gear indicator