When you say you did this mod, are you speaking of using the shift-r-gate from Cope, or did you massage your stock shifter gate? Or, did you use the original shift-r-gate product from Duncan Motorsports? I am asking because I used the one from Duncan and it worked well except for the fact the plate was made of aluminum and it galled very easily. Once it galled it wasn't very good after that until you removed it and polished the burrs. Then it would work again for a while and burr up again. I think if it was made of steel it would have been fine.