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Welcome to another episode of Mighty Car Mods.
Now would't it be awesome if when you rolled into your local takeaway shop,
you could put your order in, but then you could get around to the counter
where you pick up your mad fatty food just a bit faster?
- That'd be great. - It'd be awesome, Martin.
And there's actually only one way to do it:
With a short shifter!
Today we're working on Marty's Mum's 1999 Subaru Outback.
Holy crap balls Martin!
- snicker
MOOG: Your Mum's car is better than yours!
MARTY: Dude, don't say that
MOOG: But it is
It's
Well, it is!
Look at this it's got all STI stuff in it
Custom Piping
Yeah it's had a
Massive front mount on it
MARTY: It's had a little bit of work
its got two horns that work
MOOG: Holy moly man
MARTY: Yeah its mad
MARTY: I love it
MOOG: Let's just have a quick look at your car.
I'm gonna keep the camera rolling
So let's just have a quick look at this
No dont do it man
MOOG: Lets just have a quick look at this and
MOOG: No just I mean this is why its better than your car man
MARTY: Don't, don't do that dude, what are you doing?
MOOG: Look at it, look at it.
MOOG: look at that! MARTY: Still a car.
MOOG: Something tells me that's not passing its pink slip [inspections] mate.
MARTY: It's still a car, man. What are you talking about?
MOOG: Where's the rest of it?
MOOG: So now it gets its pink slip.
MARTY: Dude
MOOG: I mean without a bonnet, you gotta a bit of trouble.
Its not funny man
MOOG: We're about to give it a wash
Ah, but because it started raining we didnt
Ah
This is actually Marty's car here
Were gonna be installing a GFB short shift kit
and amazingly, being an Australian company,
it comes with instructions in English
that tell you what tools you're gonna need
Which are
Two twelve mm spanners, a flat blade and Phillips head screw driver; sidecutters, and pliers.
MOOG: It also says, Martin, that you need .... a RAG.
MOOG: You have a rag?
MARTY: I have a rag.
So the first thing we're gonna do is take a measurement of the stock shifter
so we can get an exact measurement of just how long the throw is
and then compare that to the short shifter.
So we can see down here, that at the moment,
choosing a point on the center console,
in first gear the car is sitting on 30cm.
And pulling it down, that's going to be under 23cm.
So that's about a 7cm throw.
We're gonna see just how short we can make it.
*CLAP* Hooah!
Sorry. I just got so excited about your mum's car. It's hot man.
All right.
it is a mad car, it is. - Let's do it.
MOOG: Start by screwing your knob until it falls off.
MARTY: This Outback has a JDMSTR six speed box.
And you have to pull up a collar on the gear stick to select reverse.
The GFB kit comes with this handy little pin remover tool
which lets you extract the pin that holds it all together.
so you can transfer it over to the new shifter.
Once the shifter is unbolted,
circular pliers or thin needle-nose pliers can be used to remove the circuit
holding the ball and cup into the gearbox.
Wow. Uh, what's THAT? *MUSIC STOPS*
There's got a pube on it. Dude, that's got a JDM pube.
It has a JDM pube on it! Look! It's blond as well!
Wow
JDM blond pube
I've never seen one before. Never seen a JDM pube. *MUSIC RESUMES*
Using special circular pliers will make this even easier.
This is the factory shifter and this is the aftermarket GFB short shifter.
Now most people assume the short shifter is actually shorter
But it's actually the same size.
What make a shift shorter is the pivot point.
And on the GFB one, you can adjust it,
making it shorter or longer as you like without the need for any medication.
Now we have to transfer all the parts from the factory shifter onto the new one.
MOOG: (AMUSED) "The ball cup spreads apart easily."
MARTY: The bushings are greased up and then transferred into the new shifter.
Along with the reverse-select collar.
It's important that all the parts from the old shifter go onto the new one in the right order.
The ballcup goes into the new shifter, and it's ready to go back into the car.
MOOG: Once it's lubed up, you can stick it in.
MARTY: The kit comes with a few extra parts to keep the angle of the selector right
so it doesn't hit the transmission tunnel.
These are installed with the supplied Allen keys which let you adjust it so it's just right.
So the new shifter's in. We just have to loosely put everything together to make sure it's in the right spot.
Then we can tighten it up and test it out.
Do that?
MARTY: (laughing) MOOG: That's not in gear is it?
Is it really? - Yeah man.
That's first or second.
It's like literally that far. Like one inch.
- Wow - And so the pipe, you bring this up higher
You get a shorter shift if you take it lower it goes longer (inaudible)
I'm sorry, I wanna check this out
So that's one...
Three and a half. That's 3.5cm.
*scoffs*
That's awesome.
MARTY: (car noises) Bap, bap, bap - doodoodoo bap doodoodoodoo bap.
MOOG: Yeah, that is a Subaru sound, now the gearbox blows up.
MARTY: Yeah, pretty much. MOOG: Yeah, awesome.
The gearbox needs to be put into reverse,
so we can run the lockout cable up the new shifter.
MARTY: Does that feel different? MOOG: Yeah yeah, it was floppy before and now it's hard.
* SILENCE *
MARTY: The reverse select collar and the pin are re-installed
and the knob and trim put back on.
MOOG: Make sure you screw your knob until it's hard.
So this GFB shortshifter has the capability of going all the way down to a 25mm throw.
Now that's probably a little bit short for our application.
But we've taken it from 7cm down to around 4-4.5cm.
which is a big difference
and you'll notice most of the difference when you're actually driving.
It'll give you a much faster throw.
And that means you'll get from your order counter to the counter where you pick up your food
--- your fatty slop --- just that much faster.
Okay, so let's test it out.
This is a super stealthy mod.
And a big thanks to Marty's mum and GFB.
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There is another option. If you want to go to your fast food place and get to the counter faster to pick up your fat slop,
and you (VOICE WAVERS) don't want to put in a short shifter,
you can become a shapeshifter!
Like on _Twilight_!
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Welcome to another episode of Mighty Car Mods.
Now wouldn't you love it if once you go down to your local mad fatty food takeaway shop
(LOSING IT) to get your fat slop, you (CRACKS UP)
(CRACKING UP)
Drive around to the window where you pick up your mad fatty fat slop
MARTY: OM NOM SLOP NUM MOOG: (LAUGHING)
Fat slop!
(CRACKING UP)
(TRYING TO COMPOSE THEMSELVES, MARTY FAILS)
Now wouldn't it be awesome if when you go down to your local takeaway shop to get some fat slop,
You can put your order in and (CHUCKLES) then go around
- All right man, I'll be fine for the next one. - Okay. - Say slop, it's awesome.