[VT-VX] Install a VZ SS Automatic shifter into VT/VX (working Button)

[JohnyRock]

Hi guys thought id post this to show you that it is actually possible to put a VY/VZ shifter into a VT/VX...

this will take quite abite of modification to the shifter shaft the little plastic bit used to select gears and you will also have to fabricate a linkage for between your shifter and the gear selector.. but when its done it works perfect and soo smooth, feels factory..

Step 1..

Remove your original shifter, you will have to pull out the shifter surround and also the whole center console peice. to remove the shifter after you have removed the center console you will have to take the screw from out the front of the shifter out and remove the pin from the gear selector down the bottom

Step 2
After you have done that you will have to file down the shifter shaft, to do this you will have to file it down bit by bit while checking it with the shifter, to do this file it down untill the screw in the front goes directly into the front of the shaft..

Step 3
Next you will want to take your fabricated linkage and get a spring no bigger than 6mm in diameter and cut it down 1 link at a time untill if fits perfect at the bottom of the linkage and still has enough spring to push the linkage back up when you let go of the shifter button, for a linkage i used a 9.5mm peice of 1020 cold drawn steel and machined it down to the same specs as the orignal linkage, this is alot of trial and error so keep patient!

here is what it looks like with the spring in

you are ganna have to do alot of this your self, alot of it cant be explained like the mesurements of the linkage and stuff you have to take your time and file it down bit by bit untill its at the right length, as i said this is all trial and error so be prepared to be there for a while.

after your confident it works properly with the spring and you have it at the right length you are ganna wanna put the pic back in and make shure it working smoothly..

you may have to shave a little bit off the splastic gear selector bit depends how you mesurements turn out..

make shure you spray some lubricant in there just to make it work a little smoother!

once its all working nicely you can put everything back together and put your new shifter on, slide it over the linkage and screw it back on and if it all worked properly you will have it working and passable for rego..

im sorry my instructions aint the best but its hard to explain this type of thing, iv never seen this done before , i have seen 1 or 2 people with them in but the button dont actually work.. heres a few more pics, any questions just ask and ill answer the best i can

 

[uNEEk]

good stuff mate, glad to see all the bits came together nicely, tidy lookin car.. love the interior

 

[GTS-Replica]

mad i love the intirior too

 

[GIJoel]

hey great write up man, defs doing this if i get my hands on some bits at the wreckers

 

[VTCALAIS97]

hey how did you get the VY controls working with the aftermarket radio on the vt?

 

[acarmody]

PAC or Aerpro steering wheel control adaptors.

H/U needs to be steering wheel control compatible.

EDIT: Looking at your car pictures I'm guessing you have a SPH-DA01 , and having a look at Pioneers website, it is steering wheel ready.

EDIT: Here you go mate http://www.aerpro.com.au/chart/HOLDEN Commodore VT 97_99.pdf

 

[VTCALAIS97]

for the VT or the VY adapter? which one did you use....?

 

[acarmody]

for the VT or the VY adapter? which one did you use....?

I would imagine the VT one would be used. That would be the one that would connect to the factory plus, as the VYs used a different H/U plug.

Since quite a few people have put VY steering wheels in VT and I haven't read that the controls don't work, I assume Holden didn't really change anything in the steering control signals between the models.

 

[Mr max]

5 years later.. has anyone else done this? Any tips, measurements for the linkage would be much appreciated.
Looking at the pics he seems to have soldered something onto the metal rod so it can push down on the spring but I can't quite make it out...
If I didn't need the button I would just swap the chrome leather shifter grip over but it won't let me change gears without it.

 

[moriati]

Hi guys i put a vy gear shifter in my vx but not the way it was explained in the post if you file down the shaft so the hole on the vy handle matches the hole on the shaft the handle comes down to far and if you try to change the gears manually you can only get down to 3rd gear you can't get down to second and first because the bottom of the handle touches the gear shift surround. So what i did is i took the gear shaft down to first gear slid the vy handle down the shaft far enough not to touch the gear shift surround do all this with the surround fitted so you know how far to bring down the vy handle without touching give it about half inch clearance then using the hole on the vy handle mark the position of the new hole on the shaft with a marker then drill the new hole on the shaft and you should be able to work out the mesurements for the linkage as for the linkage i used the existing one from the vx handle i cut of the button and straightened the linkage by heating it up gently then filing it thin enough to fit the hole on the button of the vy . but it still wont be long enough to touch the the top of the vy button when you slide it over the shaft. so you will need to make a small extension this is where you need to mesure the distance from the the top of the linkage to the top of the vy button when the button is in the vy handle. with a piece of thin round plastic with a hole in it so it will fit over the end of the linkage and touch the top of the inside of the button on the vy handle . And you dont need any additional springs there is a spring inside the vy handle that operates the button plus there is a spring right down the bottom where the linkage touches a piece with a built in spring . I tried to upload some photos but were to large to upload i will try again with smaller size photos