I'd want a mod for an automatic anyway.

--- On Mon, 6/29/09, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Custom Westy interior
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 1:37 PM
> One of the consequences of installing
> that console up front, is relocating
> and shortening the shifter throw. I drove Leon's first 2.2
> Subie conversion
> in Moab years ago (this one I think), and the most
> noticeable improvement,
> aside from motor performance, was what shortening that
> shifter linkage did
> to the positive feedback feel of shifting. I was amazed at
> how much
> difference it made. Doesn't even feel like a vanagon, which
> tends to have
> that vague, sloppy feel.
> By the way, NO, I'm not Leon's marketing dept. ;-) ... but
> I am a fan.
> bob
> 
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Jeffrey Lubin <visionwizard@verizon.net>wrote:
> 
> > Wow.� Beautiful work, Leon.
> > I especially like the front piece, between the driver
> and front passenger
> > seats.
> > I want one!
> >
> >
>