I have to be honest about this part of the project. It sucked!! Nothing went as expected and it has been taking forever to get to done. Dan chose a B&M ratchet shifter over the stock column shifter. It was agreed upon that it would be installed and at the time, it looked easy enough.... I was wrong!! To start with, the shifter came with an installation kit for a late 80's Camaro. I drilled a couple holes, installed the brackets and mounted the shifter. Unfortunately the cable ended up going right through the front bracket used to mount the console. I got around the issue by creatively cutting sheet metal and removing some of the bracket. The cable was then routed under the car and attached to the transmission. Everything was great until I tried to mount the console after cutting out the cup holders... The shifter handle was not high enough to clear the console. In fact, there was no way it would ever work using a stock console in its current form. It had to get r