[Russ Noble]

Bill,
Sorry I didn't come up with anything constuctive in my post on the Corvette shifter. I ran out of time and had to get off to work!

Maybe an easy solution would be to cut a hole in the bottom of the housing, turn the housing upside down and fabricate a new lever to come out the new hole. That may give you a slightly longer throw though. Alternatively bolt or weld a lever to the existing one and bring it, in a dogleg, up the outside of the housing assembly. That's a bit of a maori option, although it wouldn't be seen! The critical point is that the pivot ball needs to be below the shift rod.

I have devised a precise action, simple and easily made setup, to build from scratch, not dissimilar to the setup on my old Brabham, but at this stage it's only sketches on the back of envelopes, and only I can decipher it! If you get stuck I can draw it up properly for you to consider. When I've built it of course, there will be photos on my build site, but you'll probably want something before I get that far. Most of my car gets translated into the construction materials direct from the envelopes! I think most scratchbuilts are like this which is why there isn't much available in the way of plans for potential new builders.

Hope some of that helps,

Cheers