Brohawk and co,
look mate if you dont care about opinions and advice given in good faith fine, thats your choice, just dont go having a sook at people for trying to give you their insight, guidance or help.
you asked for help, i offerred my thoughts on it genuinely trying to be helpful, the best thing for you to do is only reply to the posts you find helpful and ignore those you dont its that simple. because if you slag everyone whose opinion or advice doesnt sit well with you, then they will stop posting and you'll miss out on what may well be valuable info down the track on another topic.
Brohawk you've spat half a page of bile directed at myself and Slim, for what? I was only offering you an insight, not trying to tell you what to do. i ve seen plenty of cars with ratchet shifters and they all use the console supplied with the shifter and not the factory one, they look good with a fire extinguisher if you want the whole pro-street kinda look.
at the end of the day do whatever you like as i really dont care if you **** your car up trying to butcher in something that serves no real purpose other than being a cosmetic "look how tough my car looks" accesory.
VLV8vic ban me if you want i dont care, just know that my post was given in good faith and not as an attack on someones idea or a personal attack on that user. but if you still feel the need to ban me then there are plenty of forums on the net with members who are far more mature and knowledgeable than some of the select few prize ********s here. Unlike a few people on here I ONLY post advice on things I know about and have seen tried firsthand or tried and done myself.
if you want the cold hard truth though, i think a rachet shifter on a stock auto is pure wank. I find in the instances of LX toranas and the VK the factory shifter is fine for fully manualised autos for both street and strip work.