I ordered the shift knob and Symborski kit and have had them installed about 1 1/2 years now. The weighted shift knob makes shifting soooo much easier. It takes little effort to shift gears now. I also have a B&M shorty and shift cable bearings as well which helped out a lot too.
What is shipping 97222 and how do you want me to get the money?
Daes, I have had the symborski kit and a Fidanza short throw in my eclipse for a few years now, I love them. Its nice to shift with a flick of the wrist.
Wow, you've got about 7,000 more km's on it than I've got on mine now. Glad you've made the decision to keep it, I went that route six months ago and almost don't regret it (lol). It's cost me a lot more than planned, mainly due to a whole bunch of failures I didn't expect to deal with (at least not immediately) when I started out:
Transmission rebuild (but you're covering that on your own)
Struts and springs (should have seen this coming, just didn't think of it)
Bushings (really never saw this one coming!) Once I started driving it again several of them basically crumbled to dust, resulting in continuously variable alignment and a ruined set of tires before I realized what was going on. I've had the upper and both lower control arms replaced in the front and the right rear knuckle as well (and the left rear will probably go pretty soon too judging by the way the rest of them folded). I went with all new parts here and this was non, non non, non non non non-cheap! (Sorry, Bill & Ted were on the other day.)
Sub frames (another should-have-seen-it-coming, twelve Canadian road salt winters have not been kind). While the body shop did one hell of a job on the exterior (five months later and I'm still finding new welds under the trim panels that show where yet another piece of perfectly formed steel is actually a new one I didn't know about) they completely ignored the underside, despite assurances they'd put it up on the hoist and tell me about anything questionable. I just picked it up after two more weeks of work that replaced the lower rad support, fixed four holes in various parts of the floor, shored up the front and rear cross members, both side rails / jack points and both inner rails. The car feels sooooo much more solid on the road now, but I don't want to know how many extra pounds of steel just got added to it. This was also not cheap but if you have a shop and a welder it'll cost you a helluvalot less than it just cost me, since the only real part cost was the lower rad support.
Good luck and good on you!
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