Thank you for accepting my apology I just get a little frustrated sometimes. The sloppiness a lot of times comes from the rubber mounting of a bayonet Style Shifter. Any shifter can made to be made a lot more rigid. Most of the Bolton kinds are rigid. I actually took the rubber bushings out of mine and made an aluminum spacer and bolted it on instead of the rubber. A lot of that it just for car driving and comfort from vibration not the direct shift that we want from a performance car. I actually have a overdrive transmission for sale for $250 right now but I'll take to the swap meet at the end of the week. I already had a buyer but completely talk him out of it because he was building a Performance Engine. I completely tore mine of heart over the winter and put in all new parts it turned out to be one of the easiest things there's really not much in there as far as clarence's go it's just take it apart and put it back together for the most part. No someone can jump on and get all technical about that but mine's working perfect I guess I just got lucky. I've had all the shifters now I started with the ball I have a pistol grip and now I'm using the v- gate witch I am getting used to and really like. On my break right now at work and just voice commanding this post so if spelling or things get crazy I'll fix it when I get home. And let me say this and I wish I could make it and bold lettering use a scatter Shield I repeat use a scatter Shield I did not mean to say don't use a scatter Shield just don't waste your money building one for a overdrive transmission. And I'll try and quickly post a picture of my transmission that was scattered all over my back patio this last fall and I have since drag race and works great.GOOD TIMES !!