[KevinH1990]

I had to take out the center console to re-paint it. The silver paint was bubbling in a few places. While I had the console out, I installed the 997 shifter that I bought used about two years ago. I also installed the revised e-brake switch. My e-brake switch had been sticking from time-to-time which interfered with the soft-top operation.

Here are some pictures of the old and new shifters. The first two photos show the 997 shifter and the third is the original 986 shifter. The 997 shifter has a substantial metal mounting bracket that attaches the mechanism to the shift lever.

The shifts with the 997 part are much more precise and the distance I need to move the gear lever between gears is slightly shorter than with the 986 factory part. Porsche made a short shifter for the 997, but that has a different part number.