[DeTomaso] Cable Shifter - Improvement?

[JFFR]

I have a friend here is Arizona that installed the cable shifter and he 
likes it. How much of an improvement it is over a correctly adjusted 
stock rod shifter set up may be up to how much the car is driven and 
what you expect out of the system. I never cared for the the stock 
support bearing on the stock rod shifter, which did require occasional 
lubrication.

On a side note about cable shifter systems. When Ford came out with the 
Taurus SHO in 1989 it had a cable shifter system and they continued with 
that design until 1991, then they switched over to a lever design. There 
had been complaints about how the cable shifter system just didn't work 
that well and Ford did listen. I bought a new SHO in 1990 and that cable 
shifter system was not as good as my stock Pantera rod shifter system. 
Trying to get a fast first to second gear shift on that SHO was 
impossible, although the cable set up never had to be adjusted and 
always worked the same way, which wasn't that good!