Custom Short Shifter Shift Boots PHOTOS & PAYMENT PG.1

by **lilm** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:41 pm

bump for update

by **JamesT** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:45 pm

Akora's shift boot has still yet to arrive... I was really hoping it would have been here yesterday. I'm planning on posting some photos of some of my other stuff just to give people an idea of what I do.

by **akora12** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:10 pm

I don't know why my package is taking so long to travel 200 or so miles. I probably should have got delivery confirmation on that package...

by **JamesT** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:20 pm

While I am waiting for the shift boot. As ASG asked for, here is a picture of the center armrest. The closeup is an example of the hand stitching.

If some of the stitches look a little off, that's because I was doing this without a pattern and while the fabric was being tightly pulled around the armrest.

by **Ilovemylara** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:22 pm

awesome.. looks good bro

by **JamesT** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:00 am

Ilovemylara wrote:awesome.. looks good bro

Thanks!

Hopefully the shift boot will get here today.

by **ASG14** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:17 am

That storage console lid looks pretty good.

by **JamesT** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:43 pm

Finally, I have some photos. These are of Akora's brand new short shifter boot.

by **akora12** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:44 pm

Looks good James, I can't wait to get it installed. Did you end up going by hand or machine? Either way, looks nice and factory.

by **JamesT** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:58 pm

akora12 wrote:Looks good James, I can't wait to get it installed. Did you end up going by hand or machine? Either way, looks nice and factory.

Thanks!

The visible stitches are by hand but they are meant to look like the factory machine stitches. If you look at the machine stitches on the stock one, they randomly cut off on one side (as the machine can't fit into that part of the finished boot) so I opted to do it by hand for uniformity's sake.

by **TxBmbleBee** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:30 pm

how much $$ if i send you my stock boot?

also how many inches did you take off the stock boot??

very interested, i can get this shipped to you tomorrow, let me know!

by **JavaJoe_2** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:00 pm

Are you going to make these to fit the stock shifter manual or automatic?

by **JamesT** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:19 pm

TxBmbleBee wrote:how much $$ if i send you my stock boot?

also how many inches did you take off the stock boot??

very interested, i can get this shipped to you tomorrow, let me know!

I don't need the stock boot as I have all the parts I need (The one shown has no parts from the original boot reused).

I'll do it for $50 each and $40 if I get ten people.

Are you going to make these to fit the stock shifter manual or automatic?

I made two patterns - one for the stock sized manual shifter and one for the short shifter.

A lot of math I haven't used since High School geometry went in to making sure the boot would work for a shifter that it two inches shorter without just trimming the boot down two inches (causing the boot to be too short) - Thanks Pythagoras!

by **TxBmbleBee** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:16 pm

well for right now add me to the list i guess

by **Ilovemylara** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:33 pm

That boot looks awesome.I can't wait to see it on akora's ride. Wish I had a 5 speed

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