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[Heath]

If you're running no centre console and you're start from scratch with a gearbox/shifter (T56/TKO/Toploader/T5/W58 etc. - something that Holden never put in an old car) what recommendations do you have for a shifter boot?

 

Anyone have good photos of what they've done/what they've seen? Need something that'll seal out the under-car smells & noises a bit, and look good on the inside of the car, and also attach gracefully to a floor with nothing but carpet around it.

 

Photos of good setups would be good, but even better would be seeing what they look like pulled apart, product links? how they mount up and so on.

Edited by Heath, 07 June 2015 - 11:02 AM.

[yel327]

Have a look at what GMH did with 4spd in HK-HG ute and van. These sit on a boss though and are the only floor shift on any of these apart from early in HK there was also a floor shift setup on HK Belmont sedan and wagon where there was a little round boot with a round HR style shifter.

 

The only other floor option that I can think of is what a HQ-HZ commercial had with bucket seats - these had a straight stick (not bent like a bench seat car). Lots of the HX-HZ commercials had console shift 4spd though, it was HQ-HJ where there was no console shift for commercials outside of Sandman so finding images will be hard. Have a look at L34 as well.

[rodomo]

Speco.
http://www.speco.com.au/accboots.html

[76lxhatch]

^ That's what I'd do, period look and the surround looks fine just screwed down with stainless screws

[wot179]

I did this on The Truckster.

A generic rubber boot from Spectrum Rubber for about 20 bucks and a 3mm stainless plate that I plasma cut and drilled a few holes in.

[Bigfella237]

Jeff makes a good point about stopping a potential under-car fire from getting inside the cabin, makes sense although seems rarely done by the manufacturers.

[ls2lxhatch]

I like the Lokar design with a bezel that seals the boot to the shifter.  If you only want the book part way up the sifter you can use an o-ring bezel.

 

I would also use a rubber boot on the inside.

 

 

http://lokar.com/pro...zels-boots.html

Edited by ls2lxhatch, 08 June 2015 - 11:49 AM.

[LHSL]

Check out the L34 option too. I know the 1900 opel LHs had that similar 70s look. Rubber rectangular design.

[Uncle Chop Chop]

...8 piston Brembos are overkill too but that didn't stop me..ha ha.

 

If 8 piston Brembos don't stop you, you have problems!

[hawk]

Im going to have to do something similar with my 4 speed. How were the standard boots setup?

[Heath]

I was always intending to double bag that rod that I regularly have my hand on.

 

The car already had this in it, and it's not awful but thought there may be some good ideas other people had seen. It bolts down obviously but the carpet actually tucks in over the bolted flange neatly. I may just keep it, as the new gearbox lines up with the old hole beautifully. But probably put something else over the top as well, once I find something I really like the look of.

 

Edited by Heath, 15 June 2015 - 02:35 PM.