Has anybody installed the symborski shifter kit on their car? I fabbed up my own ghetto kit tonite because I was hating the way that my 91 TSi felt when I shifted. Well I still dont like cable shifters, but it does feel about 200% better. I basically took the old rubber gromets out, put washers underneath of the shifter plate and drilled\cut some 1\8" aluminum that I had laying around so that the bolt fir snugly through it and placed these ghetto washers on top of the shifter plate. I then re-adjusted the shifter cables and bolted it all down tightly. I can now tell what gear I am in and if I'm all the way in gear. Shifting seriously feels ALOT better\confident, if you havnt bought this kit I would reccomend either purchasing it from Mach V or fabbing your own kit as I did. I also installed an EVO VIII knob which looks and feels great. It shortened the throw quite a bit and matches rather nicely.

You sold me....Actually my buddy Albert made one also and he said it made a world of difference and I just have never researched it enough to make one but now it's on like donkey kong

I installed the symborski shifter kit on my 93 GSX a few years ago and have to say that the shifts are much more solid.

It can be much more simple. I simply removed all the soft gromets and bolted the shifter plate directly to the floor with no additional hardware besides maybe one large washer on each bolt. Shifts are firm, and crisp.

I hadnt taken anything apart but as long as there is no reason for it to be up a 1/2 inch or so I thought the same thing when Albert told me about the stack of washers he used. Have any problems with it Marcus?

No problems at all with mine and I've had it set up like this for over a year. I think the 1/2 inch is just the amount of rubber they thought they needed on the gromets to make for a soft shifting unit. You don't need that space.

Now I gotta get Kate out of the car long enough to do it thanks for the 411..Saved a broke foo some green backs

Thats basically what I did except that I didnt have the right size washers so I made my own out or some aluminum I had laying around. Yeah, i know it woulda only cost less than a dollar for the washers, but I was feeling inventive I guess. Heh.

I've got some problems with my shift linkage, and since the topic was up...
I've got the "moving 5th gear" problem in my Laser, and I'm convinced its in the linkage.
A little background...I had the trans rebuilt when I bought the car, and tthe guy who did it had an idea to shorten the throw and he put a new pillar on the shift lever on the trans (I know I'm prolly using the wrong terms but its all I know to describe it). It did shorten the throw alot, but my 5th gear didn't feel solid, and it moves when I get on and off the gas, and sometimes pops out of gear. I havn't even put the car in 5th now for quite a while just because it makes me nervous. I put the linkage on the stock pillar, and it solved my 5th gear problem, but then it wouldn't go into 3rd at all. I know it has to be in the linkage somewhere, and I've tried adjusting it to no avail. I am kinda struck for ideas here, but through process of elimination I know it must be the linkage (I read about a retaining nut on the 5th gear syncro on the Talon Digest that caused this problem, but I checked mine and it was fine).
If anyone thinks they can fix this problem, or knows how, please let me know.

Nick Mullen
Danville, IL
GusNM15000@aol.com
1990 Laser RS Turbo