I'd ask if you are pulling your hair out but................well you know.

  ya I still have my last 3 hairs. Going to start cutting the old shifter out tonight.

Soooooo.all is normal?

   

Oh,the joys of a mid engine.  Rear engine is a piece of cake. Your issues are why I went with a sequential.

Beginning to regret not going sequential.  Rear engine shifter systems are available at weddle. 2 years ago Sean said they were working on a mid engine system. Ron weddle stayed that again yesterday 

I know its a good trans, the lack of info and accessories support as in bolt on weldable flanges, shifter systems or even the shaft couplers to use as a base. This trans is completely foreign to all of the common trans .

Yes mid engine is always a struggle or more of a struggle but I pre fer it. When one finds they just wasted 4.5 hrs and GET TO cut it all out and start over....really knocks the wond out of ones sails.  its my own fault, should've stopped when I saw the discrepancy and verified.

On another note, I tried every configuration, this recipe tank will not fit. My round one is going back in until I have time to design a custom tank. I spent 4 hrs, making a base mount, straps etc etc. Onto of frame constraints, the an 8 fitting on top of the trans for an external oil cooler cannot be capped. It has to be routed back into the trans. There is a secondary pair of an 8 ports for an external oil cooler.  I thought one could cap the top pair. It is what it is, ill get it usable for now and might even build a new frame.

I didn't get as much as I had hoped to over the weekend. I thought I got the majority mapped out and did but now the shifter system has to come out. So I've been running the pbs gen 1 shifter system this whole time. When I bought this trans Sean said that was a great shifter to adapt to this trans. I don't think he knows the differences between gen 1 and gen 2 design. I know I didn't until last night either.

A thanks to BrianN for the pbs system way back when.

So I put 4.5 hrs into making brackets, modifying tabs, re routing cables for the straightest lines and least number of bell  cranks or adaptors. I noticed reverse wasn't as shown in the diagram and thought, this is clearly the wrong diagram. The hv1, hv2 and hv25 have a diff shift pattern. The hv5 because its a 5 speed but hv1 and hv24 are diff. I thought they prob sent me the hv1 by mistake so I proceeded on that assumption. Its my fault but now I get to cut it out and start over. I didn't take pics of anything but the gen 2 shifter is reversed when compared to the gen1. Reversed as in it throws the cables the opposite direction and turns out that what I need. So that will work perfectly but, physically the shifter body needs a 2" lift to get the handle back to the height its at now and the shifter assy is more forward sitting in relation to the mount which changes the length of the cables. Thank goodness I didn't order new cables sun evening. I spent an hr measuring them to know which lengths to order.  So after a few discussions with a sales person and then Ron the owner, the diagram has 1st thru 4th correct but rev is clockwise rather then counter clockwise. Which means one has to push into the detent to shift 1st second and from N position, 3rd 4th are straight up and down. Reverse will be to the right, into the detent and up.

 I will have to fab a rev lock out so one cannot accidentally hit reverse speed shifting to 3rd.

So currently, reverse is into the detent left and down, what I thought was 1st 2nd is from N straight up and down and 3rd 4th is into the detent to the right up and down. Turns out 1st is to the rt and down, 2nd is rt and up, 4th is straight up and 3rd is straight down from the resting N position. I'm not sure I can relearn that pattern enough to leave it. Now, it would make a great theft deternet 

I don't have the hv1 shift direction diagram. Its online. Here is hv24 andc25