I loved my Quick Silver on my old grey car.
In my old Grey car, I ran a B&M Universal Quick Silver under the factory console and factory console overlay. I did have a TH400 trans, but they make one specific for use with the TH200-4R as well.
Here is what I had to do to make it work.
Remove the console completely. Disconnect factory shifter cable and using a chissel and hammer, chissel/break the 4 spot welds that hold the factory shifter to the floor. Once the shifter is out of the way, you will see a floor pan seam. This seam is very important when it comes to mounting the Quick Silver in the proper spot so that the console will line up and the shifter will function properly. Now, either use a dremel tool with a cut off wheel, or tin snips and carefully trim the inner framing away on the underneath inside of the center console. This is required in order for the console to sit flush and clear the Quick Silvers linkage mechanism. Use caution when trimming as the plastic is old and will easily break. Don't drop the console on the floor either as it will shatter into a million pieces as well. Once you've trimmed enough material, it's time to for a test fit.
Remember that floor pan seam I was talking about? Remove the shifter knob and put the shifter into the middle or neutral position. On a Quick Silver shifter, you pull up and back to drop it into it's shifting spot. It will drop down when it's in the middle. With the shifter centered or as close to centered as possible, push the shifter so that the rear of the mounting base butts up against that floor pan seam. Now, place the console over down over the shifter making sure that none of the internal framing of the center console hits the shifter at any point. If it hits the shifter anywhere, you need to do some more trimming. Once it clears all around and the console is in the proper position so that it will bolt up, and the shifters base is butted up against that floor pan seam, take the overlay cover and place it over the shifter and down into position while holding onto the shifter. We don't want the shifter to move until you have the cover in place. Once you have the console cover in place you need to make sure the shifter is centered in the console slot and that the shifter is also in it's middle position. Once you are happy with the position of the shifter, carefully remove the cover trying not to disturb the shifter. Carefully remove the console and check the position of the shifter. The rear lower base should be butted up against that seam. If you pull this off and the shifter was not moved, you can now mark your 4 holes with a marker and drill them. The reason why getting the shifter centered and making sure the shifter doesn't move when you are fitting it up is because the Quick Silver shifter has a lot of travel and if the shifter is not properly spaced, it will hit the console cover when you put it in park. After you drill the holes, install the supplied bolts down through the top. You will get under the car and install the washers and nuts. Don't worry about the cable just yet as we need to verify that the shifter is in the proper position now. With the shifter bolted down, install the console completely with the two screws and all. Install the console cover, bolt it down, and install the shifter knob. Now, run through the ratcheting function of the shifter and make sure it clears the console covers slot, both front and rear. If it hits, you will need to reposition the shifter and re-drill your holes. This is why it is so important to make sure the shifter clears the slot earlier. It's no big deal if you do have to re-drill more holes, epoxy will fill the bad holes.
At this point, if everything is perfectly aligned and the shifter doesn't hit the console cover and you are satisfied with the fit and operation, remove the knob, console cover and console. Route your cable down through the floor pan and loop it around to hook up to the trans. With the shifter put back in park, hook the cable to the shifter and to the trans. You will need to adjust the cable as these types of shifters are definitely a plug and play deal, but it's no big deal. When you have someone in the car putting the shifter in gear, you need to watch the trans linkage yourself to make sure it makes full contact each time the shifter is moved. If when the shifter is moved the linkage does not fully engage the gear selector on the trans, you will need to adjust the cable so that it does. Once this is done, you will need to hook up your neutral safety switch. Put it all back together and enjoy your new shifter. Make sure you run it through all the gears before you pull out of the driveway cause there is nothing more frustrating that to be stranded on the side of the road because something wasn't right.
I will search my computer tonight and see if I have some pics of my old grey cars shifter. The Quick Silver looks OE when installed with the factory console and cover. I really enjoyed mine. You also need to make sure that if you choose the Quick Silver, that you get the one that is made for the 200-4R trans.
Part number 80683.
BMRacing
http://www.bmracing.com/media/products/pdf/11.pdf
Wish I had pics right now and hope some of this helps.
Patrick
