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#1
12-16-2009, 05:20 AM
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Re: comp plus shifter. new vs old
Paul, that is a great illustration and explanation of how to install a shifter.
 Thanks....'cause I needed this too!!! 
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12-17-2009, 07:09 AM
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Re: comp plus shifter. new vs old
A friend of mine recently installed one of these new Hurst shifters in a car and had to massage the holes before he could install the shift rods. I installed a Competition plus in our old Chevelle back in '70-'71 and it has over 150K miles on it and will go back into the car when it is done. Our 396 car has the Competition Plus that the original owner installed and it still works fine. I just adapted a bench seat Muncie handle to it. Best of both worlds. Just because something was good 30-40 years ago, doesn't mean that the stuff today is any where near as good. Some stuff probably is but there seems to be a lot of unhappy people trying to make this new stuff work. From my experience I've been farther ahead when ever I took the old stuff and freshened it up.
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Chevelleless after 46 years......but we did find a low mileage, six speed, silver 2005 Corvette. It will just have to do for now. 
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#6
12-18-2009, 03:11 AM
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Re: comp plus shifter. new vs old
If you have problems with the new shifters you should send an email to the Quality Manager at Hurst and send them the link to this thread. If they care about their product they will look into it and improve the quality.
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Martin Foltz 68 Camaro SS-396 L35/M20, Corvette Bronze, black vinyl top George Olsen Chevrolet San Francisco
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#7
12-21-2009, 12:06 AM
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Re: comp plus shifter. new vs old
I installed my old Hurst Super Shifter and everything works fine now. I used the steel bushings and washers and all the slop is gone too. The Super Shifter was on another car I have and was mounted up high with the large plate and straight rods. I changed everything out but kept using the shifter and it works fine. So now I have comp plus rods and a super shifter.... What ever works, right ?
 I'll work with the junk shifter later, I want to bang gears now.....Tommy 
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#9
12-21-2009, 05:45 AM
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Re: comp plus shifter. new vs old
I liked my super-shifter better than the comp+ but like my verti-gate better than all of 'em!
I'm glad you came up with a solution.
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Paul III 
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