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I've been doing some more research on this topic and have decided that I don't like where the handbrake is, either.
135mm from dash to knob centre in third. My arm at full extension, dead straight.
255mm from dash to knob centre in fourth. My natural position for neutral.
70mm further back than current fourth, my rear most position, elbow touching seat.
Steering wheel is roughly 50 to 100 mm further back than the shifter in neutral.
Arm also fully extended and dead straight to handbrake handle in down position.
20-50mm further back would work well for me.
200mm from shifter centre at floor to tip of handbrake handle. Is this what I said above? Sort of.
Shifter is angled back pretty heavily to be even vaguely comfortable, as it is.
Sampling five vehicles, three manual, four with proper handbrakes, I found that the Starlet handbrake could go back as much as 80mm to be where the other three are, and that the other two manuals put fourth gear in the most comfortable rearward position, with neutral just forward of there, and third being maybe 80mm before the extent of my reach.
Reading through that, new fourth should be 70mm further back than old fourth, and old fourth is 200 further back than the hole centre, and new fourth is 70 behind the new hole, meaning that the new hole should be exactly where the handbrake handle tip is now, and the handbrake should go back enough to be clear of the new shifter in neutral.
I think. A couple of pics/tweets:
EDIT in morning. Too tired now.
Blacktop clutch disks are 210mm OD:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 1561903108
J160 shifter swap nets 53mm, not 55:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 6642085889
Making sure the boxes don't leak stored on end:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 3428917248
Shifter moved forward:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 5072184322
Close up of the same:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 4025583616
Two J160s stored on end:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 9916867584
Metal on drain bung:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 9541922816
Cleaned drain bung:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 6293475328
Handbrake location:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 3950065664
Comfortable holding:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 5775923200
EDIT2: DONE!