Okay, Thanks Roger. I can see that. It will get hard mounted anyway but just to keep it from flopping around. Good enough. Thanks guys!
I worked on shifter placement a bit last night. Mounted the short cable to the shifter body and started laying out where I will be cutting the cover to make the shifter pocket. I am thinking I will design a little control panel into the shifter closeout to contain the Gear Vendor switches. May as well keep that stuff close to the shifter anyway.
I also mocked up the dash and started looking at gauge placement and shifter cable clearance. The dash sits about an inch over the top of the cover so there is no issue height-wise and it comes out over the cover enough that there is only a couple of inches of cable that you can actually "see" between the shifter and dash. If I do the gauge layout I am thinking of I can hide all of this cable and wiring stuff with the dash. I'll get some pics loaded, didn't get on the computer last night.