2006 987 Schnell Short Shift Install

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Alright, now the biggest pain and it would now be easier to have a second person to hold the tunnel housing.
The housing lifts up from the rear and the front "fingers" that wrap around both sides of the Center Consule will slide down to kind of rotate it around the shift lever housing that is finally visible.
There are numerous plugs and a wiring harness that must be removed and were impossible to photo. All of the plugs have little release clips. Take your time and use a light to find them and the plugs come right out. If you have to "force" it, you HAVE NOT released them. One is a round unit that rotates about 30 degrees and releases - first pic is where it was, near the ashtray.
There are two metal clips securing the harness toward the shift housing that slid off the plastic housing fingers. There are two black plastic clips that are tie wrap mounts that would NOT come off - second pic - I cut the tie wraps with a small pair of diagonal cutters and replaced the tie wraps when reassembling. Not a problem, at all, just be careful to not cut any of the wires.
With all the plugs unplugged and the wiring harness released, you may now remove the tunnel housing.

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The first pic is the stock unit.
In order to make sure I returned the new shifter to the proper position, I put it in nuetral and measured from the end of the shift shaft to a spot on the Center Consule - second pic. I would suggest doing the same and taking a digital picture of it, to make sure you get the new shifter in the right spot. The top of the new lever is shaped differently than the OEM lever, so note the CENTER for measuring purposes.
From this point, the instructions from Schnell were great. I did everything as they suggested, except I did not remove the housing from the car. I have tools to push the new bushing housings into the shifter housing and saw no reason to disassemble more than was needed.
The cable ends work really well and BEFORE I removed the cable from them I both took very close up pics - third pic - AND COUNTED the ribs in from the end of the housing to the first rib on the cable, to make sure I knew where it went! By putting the cable back to it's exact location in it's housing (both of them) and adjusting the shift lever to my measurement with the adjustable bushings in the kit, it works perfectly.

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Now, I did some testing and will pay the price so you don't have to.........
Since I didn't know for sure what I had done would work perfectly, I test drove the car BEFORE I put it all back together (and would have to take it all back apart if it did NOT work!!)
I got a measage when I drove it that I had an airbag system issue and now the airbag lite is staying on!! I made a call to my Porche tech friend and he said it will just need to be reset, BUT, if you follow my directions here, measure the shift lever position BEFORE you take it apart, take the time to make SURE you put the cables back where they belong in their housings and adjust the bushings to get your measurement right, EVERYTHING will work right and there is NO NEED to test drive the car with the wiring diconnected in the tunnel housing.

As all the great tech manuals now say - reassemble in reverse order!!
The only thing tricky going back together was the storage box and switch unit. The storage box has ribs on the side that fit into slots in the main Center Consule housing. As long as you get them lined up, it all just slides right in and the switch housing clicks in and everything is hunky-dory!
After I've driven it more than a half mile test, I'll let you know what I think, but so far, the effort to shift seems barely more than stock and the throw is REALLY short. Nearly as short as my formula cars were, and that is SHORT!!

Here is a pic of the unit all adjusted, before reassembling the interior.