![]() It reminded me of un-boxing a brand new iPhone, but better. Now the shifter alone, man, that was impressive. You get a cool sticker, install instruction help and my Euro adapter with wrench sitting pretty in its own bag. You open the box and your parts are all tucked in tight with packing paper, making sure they aren’t being tossed around on the journey. The box came in tapped with their custom LIKEWISE branded yellow tape. Product arrived in like 6 days, crazy fast considering it came from the other side of the world.īy far this is probably the cleanest packaging and presentation on any car part I’ve ever purchased. PRO-TIP: The problem was this gift card was being flagged as spam or something with the international transaction, and after days of fidgeting and researching, the solution was to add the gift card to my PayPal account as a payment method, and then use my PayPal account to purchase from LIKEWISE. All in, $110 bones, and over $100 means free shipping. Since Volvo put a crazy lock pin twisty shift knob fitting, I also added their Euro Adapter, to make sure the shift knob mounted up properly. ![]() All said and done, I went with the Daytona in black. Started placing items in my cart, started measuring my shift shaft to determine what adapters I needed. That’s when I got serious on the LIKEWISE website. Every part for the M66 tranny swap was acquired minus the final software ($850), so this gift card wasn’t gonna make a dent in that, and this $150 was ready for a free-to-me $150 upgrade. It wasn’t until we went to a company retreat, and I was bestowed with a $150 MasterCard prepaid gift card… Cha – mother-effing – ching! This was my chance. Factory shifter it would be, and deal with this mess later. Long story longer, months later I just gave up. Maybe something to pay roots to my Japanese blood, maybe something crude and offensive like my jokes. Swedish tribute with some blue and yellow. The problem was that these shift knobs are super sick, but I spent months thinking of what I would actually put inside the knob. Also, if you spent any time in our Nissan section you probably saw his hot pink S13 here: Mat Blackwell’s Pink 1992 Nissan Silvia S13. Honestly, I was also talking to Mat Blackwell over in the UK who makes super sick custom shift knobs. Here is the basic factory manual shifter that came for almost all P1 Volvos (S40/V50/C30/C70). I mean, while I was going from a factory auto shifter to a factory manual shifter, it was still factory… looks pretty crappy and doesn’t let people know the work it took to get that manual shifter in there. ![]() I thought, well after it’s done, maybe sometime later I would get some LIKEWISE of my own for sure. The problem is that this swap is expensive for us common-folk, and we were pinching pennies to get this thing done. I thought this was the shift knob setup that would be worthy of such an awesome accomplishment. While sourcing parts for our extremely rare (first ever documented) auto to manual swap on a Volvo S40, So with it, he combo’d in their “ Suzuka” extension, and their “ Love Button” e-brake button, to really set off the shifting experience. It would have been financially irresponsible for him not to get his cart to $100 for the free shipping. He ordered the “ Finger Banger” seen here for a cool $80. ![]() It wasn’t until he ordered his shift knob setup, and it showed up that I took these guys serious. I was like “whhhhaaaaattt?” He was all pumped, but I wrote it off as out of my budget. In the earlier days of, team member Derek (you’ve seen his 2020 STI all over our YouTube) sent me a link to some Australia company that made shift knobs, and some $500+ lug nuts. Learn about PLUS+.Stop Messing Around with the eBay Shift Knobs PLUS+ shifters are not compatible with first generation products. It is only compatible with PLUS+ adapters and PLUS+ shift boot retainers. So we decided to scrap all that and just machine them from aluminium. We were just digging up old, dried pieces of cow poo. And as the final pieces were uncovered on that cold, rainy morning…it turns out they weren’t actually that good. Trillions of (borrowed) Euros were spent. Local native people were exploited until death for their cheap labour. Entire forests were stripped and burned to the ground. Harvesting this precious stone took many years, and countless costly resources. From deep within the earth’s mantle, this little morsel was discovered by Jurassic Park’s most respected and renowned archaeologists (we’re talking about the first Jurassic Park none of this Jurassic World BS).
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