No offense taken. Let me inform you about why my products are priced the way they are.

If you are paying $40-$60 for an adapter you are paying much more for your money than what you get when you buy my kit.

The adapter is made from 1 peice of solid billet aluminum. My shifter kit has 4 solid peices of aluminum. 3 peices of stainless steel.

So whatever is costs the manufacturer to make that one adapter, it costs me 4 times more in aluminum and machining. Then I have to pay for 3 stainless steel peices. Stainless steel costs more as a raw material and to machine than aluminum. The stainless steel shaft gets bent, thats more time and money. Then all my parts are hand polished, thats more money. The aluminum is anodized. The shift knob gets laser etched with the gear positions and then it gets a high gloss clear powdercoat. Everything gets assembled with stainless steel hardware. The shift boot is top grade cow hide.

So basically, If I was charging as much as the adapter company was, my kit would cost somewhere around $500-$600. I feel like my products are very competitively priced.

If you are on a small budget, and you are satisfied with a DIY shifter, then by all means DIY. My kits are marketed to people that want really nice parts for their cars and are willing to pay a bit more to have the best product out there. Also, I have yet to see an adapter that can compare in feel to one of my kits. Thats the reason why I started making kits in the first place, because I hated the way adapters felt, and C's shifters were out of production. C's shifters were $350 when they were new, and they don't compare at all to what I have for sale now, and they don't come with a boot and knob.

No hard feelings, I just hope you can understand why I priced the kit the way I did. Take care