Im thinking about replacing my column shifter on my 1997 SS/T for a B&M Unimatic Floor shifter. Any comments on whether or not this is a bad idea and is it possible to be done?

 

it could be done the one thing that would be difficult is getting your PNRD21 on your dashto move with your shifter. Go to a junk yard and buy the plastic peices that go around the steering column that came out of a stick shift truck, and then buy your floor shifter.

One thing I can't quite get right, is won't the shifter be low and hard to reach or are you going to build a console of some kind
good luck

 

https://dodgeforum.com/m_910684/tm.htmthere you go that should help

 

This write up is good, but if you look at the pictures it looks to me like you really have to bend way down to get to the shifter, and you lose your cupholders. I would say spend the money in something else, but thats just me

 

Yeah actually the shifter is like one in a big rig and compensates for the height diff by making the shifter 15" or 18". And there is a PRND21 on the actual shifter and in my '97 the isnt anything that i would have to remove in order to put the shifter there.

 

unless you have a manual valve body i would see it as pointless, but its what floats YOUR boat, not mine.

 

Its not hard to do at all really. About the hardest part is trying to align the bolts with the holes in the pan through the carpet lol. Im sure its possible to get the selector to move in the dash, it would take a bit of fabbing but it doesnt matter if you have it on the shifter anyways.