well this escalated quickly, I'm sure you've all been there


The Nissan Xterra shifter cable to Lexus GS450h gearbox adapter... for the Chevy GMC truck

please forgive me for belaboring the point, but I think extracting the Lexus LS600h engine and transmission wire harnesses properly can safe some folks much grief, so here I am showing how the engine (ie inverter) harness on the left would have just plugged right in to the transmission (ie resolver ...

Hi - I already have the Lexus VCU board from this link: https://www.evbmw.com/index.php/evbmw-webshop/vcu-boards/gs450h-vcu

From your post it looks like you have a case - where did you buy this or is it 3D-printed?


Awesome, and I don't mean to be that guy, cause it took me like a year to find ...

meanwhile in the Kitchen Adjacent Stand Alone None Integrated Center Console Refurbishing Facility - KASANICCRF

I am just loving the modularibility of this Nissan Xterra center console shifter combo, bless this Nissan engineers for using screws and not those god forsaken plastic clips that get brittle over time and snap right off


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Alibro wrote: ↑Sat Nov 15, 2025 12:47 pm LOL, sorry mate. I don't know anything more.

Oh, ha ha, I just meant what year was yours, as per the Wiki there are like 5 generations of these animals spanning over 30 years

Alibro wrote: ↑Fri Nov 14, 2025 1:52 pm Last Auto I had was a Merc C Class.
It had a really nice shifter and being a C Class it would need to be compact.

Just a thought.

Do you have to remove all the small pins before you can remove the 4 larger pins?


I have now worked on / built if you will about two dozen harnesses with this plug and have attempted numerous times to remove those 4 larger power and ground wires and have yet to do so, I will upload a pic of a ...

so then I threw her on our mobile motor shifter stand using the custom Nissan Xterra to Lexus GS450h Douglas fir adapter


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and here I am shifting it almost perfectly using the hole I drilled for that B&M shifter for the GM TH350 transmission, this was ...

and $85 dollars later...

well this is where things got interesting, but first lets do a Mandatory Stare and Compare, of a 2WD shifter thingie vs a 4WD kind


looks like I got lucky and the prior owner kept this piece nicely oiled and greased to keep it from rusting

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and it was at this time ...

so we were not done yet, my love for these Nissan Xterra (pronounced: Nissan Frontier) parts kept growing as their popularity grew on me

cause then I came across this 2000 Nissan Xterra 2WD aka "Snow White" with a two piece stand alone non integrated center console (still in tact)

So could I have ...

so then I spied this clean 2001 Nissan Xterra 4WD

1. it had a GRAY two piece non integrated / stand alone center console

2. however it was 4WD instead of only 2WD so it came with the extra shifter foreskin


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I just set it down on the shifter from ...

so let's see if this bad boy meets all my arbitrary needs:


1. 2WD (just cause its a cleaner look) - check

2. cable runs towards the back of the vehicle not the front - check

3. shifts as God intended (Park is lever back, Drive is lever forward) - check, check

4. two piece stand alone shifter ...

Make it so!

Eye, eye Captain!

Right, so having done absolutely zero research I ventured out to the wrecking yard. Andy my first thought was, is there such a thing as Too Many Choices? Cause there I was, surrounded by 72,000 wrecked cars (plus or minus 50,000 of course) not only did I not know ...

It was at this point that I sunk back in my camping chair in the middle of my shifter filled garage, and simply asked myself:

What would Damien Maguire do?

and though I could not make out what he was saying, as he held up just one finger, I think the message was clear: I must go out and buy one ...

the Corvette one I didn't even try... for obvious reasons!

I didn't like the Chevy Blazer one because the shifter and the center console were all one piece and I would have to do some trimming to get it to sit flush on my trans cover, that and it was designed to operate a gearbox lever that hung down instead of pointing up, yes I could have flipped the ...

I liked the middle one the Chevy Tracker cause in my minds eye it would allow me to keep the center console that I already have so I started to mount its cable to the Lexus GS450h transmission when I realized this thing operated Bass Ackwards ! When the shifter was in Park the gearbox would end up ...

if you've seen the video above then you know I disqualified the Lexus GS450h OEM shifter based on being too fugly among other nuisances, so that meant it was time to pretend to be Goldilocks

Note: I posses a bit more of the three shifters represented below ie they are all complete although they ...

sure, but is there a funny yet insightful video ?

EV DIY Special Guests shed some additional light on the Lexus GS450h automatic transmission (E-CVT) floor shifter

Doesn't that grey gizmo do all the electrical switch at each lever position?

T1 Terry


No I don't think so, I think you are thinking of the Shift Lever Position Sensor which lives on the side of the transmission (editing that video as I type this)


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so first of all, in order to get it out of Park without having to step on a brake pedal in un electronically controlled vintage cars you need to remove this gray gizmo


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please be advised, I own two of these OEM shifters, allowing me to completely bastardize one ...

ah yes, the Anatomy of the Lexus GS450h Automatic Transmission Shifter ~ brought to you by Bachelor Life (TM)