Thanks for the update Chris. We'll wait for your "green-light" post.

 

is this looking like it may make it sometime this month? sure would be great!

 

Starting to look like another empty Christmas...

 

Perfect timing for me..picking up my car (hopefully) this week...Count me in

 

Guys, we are doing 3 prototype shifters with the new parts and drawings confirmed. Like I mentioned before, we tested it out a few weeks ago and everything checked out ok. Assuming the proto's are correct and it all works as we expect I will start accepting orders for them early Oct with a shipment date by early Dec. I can tell you we have entered the bill of materials for the shifter in the computer and the pricing is getting re-quoted now and in fact could be less than originally thought!.

 

All very good news! Do you need a beta tester? lol!

 

Thanks for the good news Chris. Glad to hear there's good progress. Hope all goes well and you can get these out for Xmas for everyone. "New parts & drawings"? Did you change the design?
Eagerly waiting...

 

No we did not change the design , just accepted the new cad files and drawings to accept first articles.

 

This thread has been alive since Feb 2006, and by December that will have been 22 months ago. I find it ironic and mildly amusing that the construction of the Empire State Building was completed in less than 14 months.

 

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A or B

 

wow, B looks awesome!

 

Yep I'd put B in my car if it was made ofr us

 

I sure wouldn't put A in my car. B looks great and I assume there would be a button for O/D on it.

 

Well A is the one their making guys

Richard

 

I like A. Has a lot of potential, nice clean look, goes better with the styling of our S197's. Can't wait to drop one in.

Chris, when can we get the installation instructions? I'd like to check out the install procedure.

 

Not too sound pesimistic but my 4 year old just put this on his Christmas list

 

I really want to try out a new shifter, but A looks like crap! It's to flat and doesn't even compare to the stocker. Now on the other hand, B looks freaking awesome. I'd throw that on in a heart beat if some one made it for our cars!!

 

A is uglier than hell and looks cheap. I would never throw that in my car. B looks **** good though.

 

Yeah, well, if anyone bothered to look at the B&M website, or has any experience with B&M shifters...they might notice that B is a pic of an old shifter that won't even fit our cars. Those aren't the two choices that were on the drawing boards. They're not even the same kind of shifter.

Besides, it's functionality we're after. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't plan on staring at my shifter. I would rather drive.

Considering the amount of work that went into getting this to work with our AT's, and the merger and crud, s'all good. Plus this new B&M shifter offers changeable heads, O/D switch, and a design that appears to be so simple and accessible that it will be perfect for modding.


Of course, if Ford had woken up to the direction the rest of the Automatic car world was going, we wouldn't be relying on B&M to create a whole new shifter for us. WTF happened with the S197? How come every other freaking automatic on the market today has a tiptronic/slapstick/shiftronic/whatever and the Mustang got left out? Stupid's what I call it. Perfect market for such a thing.

Alright, so the new shifter by B&M isn't a work of art. I don't see anyone else making one.