GMracer

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I want to put this shifter in my truck, when I do my motor/tranny swap with a built 60e or 65e. I need to know what I need to do to make this possible, please help me out. Also I have 4wd will that effect anything. I plan on puttin this onto of a tahoe console where the cupholders are.

BadAssChevy327

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ive seen people do it in a camaro so its gotta be possible to do . im intrested also

Dark Halo

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I am putting a floor shifter in mine but I am removing the middle seat console and I will build a custom wood or aluminum console in order to house all my switches for my efans, roll control and what ever else I might throw on.

GMracer

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i need more info!

BadAssChevy327

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ya it would look awesome to do that i think on a sport truck build . i dont know bout a dialy driver thing .

Lord Aries

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I have talked to B&M and hurst, it will work fine. They have shifters specificly for the GM transmission line up... The biggest issue is that the tranmission will not upshift just because you tell it to by kicking the rachet up a gear, unless you install a manual valve body.

I plan on putting a Hammer in my Avalanche when I build my custom console, i just love how a console shifter looks and feels.

GMracer

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so it will be just like if you put the colume shifter in 1 and shifted 2 3 D? also how much is a manual valve body?

BadAssChevy327

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why do a manbual vlave bodie on that tranny . might as well put a 5 speed tune on ur computer and run a built turbo400 or something .

2002yroneformula

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Curious on this too. Figured I'd wait till I get ready to swap trannies before doing the shifter. Wouldn't have thought about the valve body being an issue though.

Lord Aries

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According to B&M, Hurst and a few trans shops, they all said that a non-manual valve body (stock) valve body will always up-shift when it is told by the PCM it is ready. If you hold the truck in first gear and floor it but, shift into second at around 3,500RPM the trans will still wait until around 5,600rpm before it triggers the upshift (technicaly the PCM triggers it in relation to it's shift point to TPS tunning)... They all said you have to have a fully manual valve body to have forced up and down shifting when YOU want it. They said you CAN tune out the shift points but, then you are hoping the PCM does it's job telling the trans it is ok to up shift because the driver said so. With a fully manual valve body, it is all about the gear slector posistion and thats it, no sensors, no tuning, no PCM, just you and the shifter. I am just telling you what they said... Maybe true, maybe not but it makes sense when you think about it...

The silly part is that you have an AutoMatic, if you wanted a manual, you should have getton one... LoL Not ragging on you, had to except that myself...

I want the floor shift for a few reasons:
1 - it looks a lot nicer then the big stick on the colum
2 - You CAN hold the trans in any gear you want (keep it from up shifting) if you need to (even with non-manual valve body and stock tuning) and it is easier to step out of the gear with out over shooting to neutral due to the crappyness of the stock colum shifter...