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**superwhitegts** · 11-29-2007, 06:49 PM

I just got off the phone with a TRD rep. Apparently the shifter i bought wasn't supposed to be used on a GTS, six speed trans. Back in 2000 when the 7 gens first came out, TRD marketed the quickshifters. People were having problems downshifting from sixth gear mistakingly into third instead of fifth, second instead of fourth. They were blowing up their engines due to the high revs. Therefore, Toyota went to TRD to incorporate a design that prevented this. Only, it was supposed to go on the GT models only. The shifter I got mounts, fits and works great in the six forward gears,..it just doesn't like reverse! According to TRD, there is no retrofit kit out to fix the downshifting issue. Bummer, so I guess it's back to looking around for a short shifter that I can afford.

11-29-2007, 06:49 PM	#9 (permalink)
superwhitegts Location: indiana Posts: 16 Join Date: Nov 2007 Last On: 12-17-2008 07:02 PM	Re: Trd Quick Shifter I just got off the phone with a TRD rep. Apparently the shifter i bought wasn't supposed to be used on a GTS, six speed trans. Back in 2000 when the 7 gens first came out, TRD marketed the quickshifters. People were having problems downshifting from sixth gear mistakingly into third instead of fifth, second instead of fourth. They were blowing up their engines due to the high revs. Therefore, Toyota went to TRD to incorporate a design that prevented this. Only, it was supposed to go on the GT models only. The shifter I got mounts, fits and works great in the six forward gears,..it just doesn't like reverse! According to TRD, there is no retrofit kit out to fix the downshifting issue. Bummer, so I guess it's back to looking around for a short shifter that I can afford.