Projects 1940 Ford Lokar Floor Shifter

I have a 40 Ford Coupe with SBC and TH350 and am trying to finish putting in a floor shifter. The shifter is installed and everything works, can shift if through the gears no problem.

But what I’m having issues with is what they call the quad lever on the actual shifter is above the floor instead of below. I talked to Lokar and obviously they would know, but they say you can’t re-angle the quad lever because the geometry won’t allow it to work properly (the quad lever is supposed to be at 4:30-5 o clock position and I was wondering about putting it at 6 o clock/straight down while in park).

I’m not going to put a huge boot on it to hide it, would like something that actually looks halfway decent. I was curious if anyone had ideas on a hump? Or any other ideas on what I could do without it looking bad. Thanks

 

That's why I did my latest 40 with a column shift. No more fighting for position with my right leg. Also have a Lime Works column shifter in my daily driver deuce pickup, much easier to drive.

 

You could move the shifter forwards on the mount a bolt hole or two which could well get the arm away from the floor and under the trans cover. Link to the trans shift arm would need to be shortened, but aren't Lokar arms just allthread anyway?

Chris

 

Couldn’t the degree of the arm be changed so halfway through the stroke it is perpendicular to the connector rod? Looks like it is not there to me, but you would need to check the actual parts on your car.

 

I just looked at some old pictures of mine. I think it looks the same. The difference is my tunnel is very deep so most of the shifter is lower than the tunnel. It just required a standard boot.