Shifter indicator off… a lot.

Hello everyone long time no talk. I have a couple of questions but let me explain a little first.  My father and I just finished swapping over his 72 Torino to bucket seats and a console with floor shift. I thought we had all the right linkage and things but it seems I was mistaken because we can shift through all of the gears before the shift indicator in the floor shifter even reaches drive. I’ve read everything I could find about the different throws of the shifters through the forums here but can’t seem to find any help.  The transmission is a C6. Linkage on the transmission is pointing up. Hooked everything up and tried to adjust it but still the gears are just too close in the shifter.  Shifter and linkage are out of a 73 Gran Torino not sure if it was a C6 car or not I can’t remember. Our car is a 1972 with a 429 and C6 that has been swapping in place of the original 351C and C6. The car looks awesome with the buckets.

New bushings at the shifter lever side and the rod on both ends. We tried adjusting it every which way. When I was under the car and my dad would move the shifter from park to reverse the lever on the transmission would move all the way to drive. We thought the linkage was too long. So we shorten’d it. No bueno. Same thing. Then we read about a possible longer shifter lever at the floor shifter side which would change the radius of travel or throw of the rod and thought maybe that’s why the rod was longer to start with. 

I’m about to leave to drive back to NJ so I can’t get a picture of it. Nothing from the column shift was used other than the lever on the transmission. 

Yes it was originally a column shift car. The column cable would pull the transmission lever forward. At an upward and forward angle. The floor shift pushes it forward. The linkage does connect it just moves to much. I’ll keep researching and look at those clamp on deals thanks. 

Thanks for the pictures and part numbers. I’ve got a little time before I leave this morning to snap a few pictures before I leave for the dirt Jersey. So I’ll show you what we got for a temp setup so he can atleast move the car. Don’t judge though it ugly since we were trying to fabricate it to work. The lever in the first picture is similar to what we have on our trans. It points up like that. I’ll post when I get the pictures. 

Any updates?  I looked at the parts catalog, and it lists a different lever on the transmission for the floor shift vs the column shift as I suspected. So the universal one might get you working properly at least, as I am not sure how hard it would be to source the correct lever.