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My car had the factory SS installed by a prior owner before I bought it. I added the Seine, all new bushings, and even new engine and transaxle mounts. The delrin bushings in the coupler are very firm, really tightened things up nicely.

My problem was that with the short shift, I could not find the sweet spot in fore-aft coupler adjustment where I could get it completely into 4th but still trip the reverse lockout cam to keep me from nicking reverse on 4-5 downshifts. Once I reverted to the original shifter, I nailed that adjustment first time. No more nasty sounds on downshift.

There may have been a different way to deal with that, but in addition to the reverse lockout working well now, the car is much easier to shift, noticeably less effort, and I really didn't see much difference in length of travel. Other cars may not have the same issue that I had.
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