Repositioning Shifter For Tall People
By: Red88Si
(From: http://www.preludepower.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192452)

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This should move where the shifter rests so people that drive with the seat all the way back will have a easier time reaching.

I doubt it, but maybe its just my shifter that has this problem. Whenever I'm in 5th gear and cruising with my hand resting on the shifter, I have to stretch my arm WAY out to handle it. Maybe people with their seat farther up don't have my problem, but I'm 6'2 and I need to be a bit farther back . Anyway, I know that the online manual said that the shift cable locking nuts should have less than 10mm of thread visible when it is adjusted properly, so I thought I'd take advantage of the "or less".

Here's what I did.

1) Remove the shift knob and center console/shifter cover. It should be held on by 3 screws on each side. It will come off with the shift boot, that's why you need to remove the shift knob.

2) Get a couple of 10mm wrenches or a wrench and something that you can use to hold the center section of the threaded piece steady. I used a vice grip.

3) I'll tell you how to do this with the vice grip. It's not that different with another wrench. Pull your shifter into 4th gear and clamp the vice onto the center threaded piece on the driver's side. Use your 10mm wrench and loosen both the front and rear locking nuts.

4) Remove the vice grip and move the locking nuts all the way up the threading, so that both pieces of the threaded rods' threads are visible.

5) Then the center piece in the direction that moves the rods out of it. Turn it until it is free of both sides.

6) Replace the center piece and insert both threaded rods back into it. Turn it so that it starts to pull both rods in. Turn it until the shifter is sufficiently far enough back. For me, that was all the way back.

7) Use the vice grip on the center piece again and use the wrench to tighten the locking nuts against it.

Reassemble the console cover and shift knob.

Taa daa! You're finished.