![]() 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. Stop Messing Around with the eBay Shift Knobs ![]()
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