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MGORDON, I installed the Mountune quick shift kit (bought from FSWerks) a couple of weeks ago. It was definitely a bit of a pain to install. You have to tighten three Allen-head bolts and there is very little room in there. That was a minor inconvenience and once installed it makes the shift throw exactly right in my opinion. The factory shift throw was too long and the feel too light. This kit fixes both issues. I did have an interference issue that I described to FSWerks with pics and suggested they pass on to Mountune: I drove the car post-install and immediately noticed it didn't completely go into 6th gear. I wondered if there was any cable adjustment and went to bed. The next day I had time to look at it and discovered that in 6th gear the two shift levers on the transmission are nearest each other. The transverse gate lever (I don't know the right word, but the lever that moves you from the 1-2 gate to the 3-4 gate, etc.) was running into the nylon rod end for the main lever. The Mountune adapter moves the ball attachment for the cable closer to the pivot and also closer to the other lever. I was able to get some pry bars in there and bend the lever over about 1/8 inch. Now it's all good, but Mountune definitely made the design a little tight to deal with car manufacturing tolerances.
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It's hard to get leverage, but it just needs to bend slightly toward the battery.
