I bought http://www2.kartboy.com/x4/product.p...cat=253&page=1 for my 03 WRX. I just tried Installing it and it simply wouldn't fit. The neck part of the short shifter right above the ball were there is a tunnel for the bushing and metal slide was too wide. The serial# on the ss is "KB015321." I'm either assuming...

1. They straight up sent me the wrong shifter?
2. There is another way to install possibly from the bottom of the car but still the brackets won't match up?
3. I'm doing it wrong? but on scoobymods ( http://www.scoobymods.com/kartboy_sh...ings-t205.html ) it's self explanatory.

This wouldn't fit...


...into here


HELP!!!!

 

did it come with bushings? try using the stock bushings? i've seen another install where they used the stock ones. i have one of these on the side waiting to be installed too. it came with 2 plastic ones but idk. GL.

 

i did use the stock bushings in pic 1 connected to that metal tube... the thing is even without the bushings, it still doesn't clear. i bought the combo pack, the two plastic ones your talking about goes under the car near the tranny on the drivers side. FML
im just salty because i was looking to drive my car on the freeway to kapolei this weekend with my ss. FML x2

 

maybe they sent you a 6 speed one. i got the bushings that go under the car too but the ones im talking about go into the area where yours dont fit. it came with 2 black ones. did yours come with that?

 

^ no it didnt because it says to use the oem bushings. it did come with the two that go under as well.

http://www2.kartboy.com/x4/product.p...cat=253&page=1

thats everything i got in that small pic.

 

UPDATE!!!

i got a reply from katboy and the dude said he is on vacation here in hawaii! anyways he said i might have to order the 97-01 impreza rs series? idk why...

i looked again at my oem shifter and it seems not to be the stock wrx one but a sti gold shifter... what do i do now? lol

 

You might have to order the rS series because your car came with the factory short shifter installed, that's probably why none of this **** fits like it should.

 

there are two versions for the 5mt pivot as you have found the hard way, a wide and a narrow version.

 

thanks for letting us use your jack btw the clutch install came out great rico I will be droping it off at ricos in a little bit

 

so the narrow version is the 97-01 impreza rs series kartboy ss im assuming....

 

yea, on www.turninconcepts.com they have the 97-01 5mt shifter listed next to the 02-07 5mt shifter in the 02-03 wrx section

 

nice your thread jack haha.. nah no problem, just dont forget to give me your trans and rear diff.

 

If you have the factory sti shift linkage on your bugeye (factory option) you need to buy the 97-01 kartboy short shifter iirc.

 

^ much mahalos for everyones 2 cents. guess i should of checked first and not of assumed... aloha