[Ivan D.]

Originally Posted by benoit454

Now something like the unimatic or indymatic that uses a rod, to shift that may be different since it kinda mounts on the tailshaft. But for a cable operated auto you can put it anywheres, and as others said make your own console as big as you want, or use the one they come with. Most of them are short so reaching them would require a bend down or lean over, where as the rod operated ones usually are taller sticks/handles. Maybe you can find a long handle and change it, or just get creative.

Actually Lokar makes their shifters so you can mount them damn near anywhere on the tranny, it just depends which brackets you choose to use. If it's possible I'd go with a solid rod linkage tho, even if the one the shifter comes with don't work too well you can always fab yerself another one - my Lincoln Towncar (normally column shifted) for a few months already has a floor shifter off a Ford Thunderbird, the shifter's original setup is cable-operated but I just flipped the tranny lever upside down and ran a rod from it to the shifter. Rod was a little tricky to get in the right shape cause the shifter sits right above the tranny yoke and the linkage has to clear the floorboards, the crossmember, and the VSS, but it all worked out perfectly. On a truck the shifter sits right on top of the tranny, so there are hardly any clearance issues at all, you can run whatever linkage you want to. Heck, if it didn't involve so much fabrication I'd run solid linkage even with the B&M truck Megashifter