TH350 shifter options

[BusyKiwi]

I'll do a drawing today and post up later, if you can wait a couple of weeks you can see how I did my one and look at those handles at the same time, I'll be back in Auckland in a couple of weeks for a week or so. Need to get some work done on the van

[Gordon]

Sounds good Busy. Lance did my inspection last week, so I'm just waiting for my cert plate and then I'm on the road. Off to the Beach Hop at the end of the month. Would be great if I could sort my shifter out before then, Hate the Hurst Promatic that is currently fitted. Just need a rough idea on how you build the adjustment into the linkage bit and I should be able to puzzle the rest.

[BusyKiwi]

I went to draw a picture then thought I must have a photo of mine somewhere.

The cable is from some toyota, as I needed a really long one as engine is so far back, the 'bar' part is made to suit the shifter and trans, work out the travel from park to first on both the shifter and trans and measure these from the pivot points and you should be right.

I've changed it slightly since this pic to tidy everything up, but is same principal

[Gordon]

Thanks Busy, makes sense now. Definitely gives me something to work on. I'll let you know how I get on.

[MaTTe]

In terms of shift spacings, any commodore upto vs should be usable as the t700 is just a 4 speed version of the t350.
May not help you now due to the delay, however may help someone else in the future

[Gordon]

Thanks for the tip Matte. It, does help me, so thanks very much.

Since my last post I spent some additional time working on my Mazda shifter and have discovered that it has an even cable movement of about 7mm per shift which must mean that the Mazda auto has a straight line shift mechanism unlike a TH350 that has an arc type shift where the cable movement between shifts decreases from about 20mm between Park and Reverse down to about 6mm between 2nd and 1st.