Hybrid Racing HR 06+ 8th User Manual

8th Gen. Shifter Cables Install Guide for

2006-2011 Civic SI

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Features:

 6061-t6 end links
 Spherical bearing pivot
 6061-t6 bushings
 Upgraded transmission springs
 Increased cable core diameter
 Integrated fiberglass heat shield

Package Contents:

 (1) Shifter Cable set
 (2) “c”-shaped linkage clips
 (2) Cotter Pins
 (2) Endlink Bushing Inserts
 (1) Bushing Insert Retaining Ring
 (2) Transmission Lever Selector Springs

 Basic Hand Tools with

 8mm allen key
 Flathead screwdriver
 Honda Bond
 Hoist/Car Lift or jack

Key points before installing

 You will need to lift the car in the air and a car lift/hoist

 Depending on your exhaust you may have to remove

 A small portion of the interior will also have to be dis-

Recommend Tools:

10mm and 12mm sock­ets and wrenches.

with jack stands

is recommended but it can be done with a jack and
jack stands

it to gain access for the installation.

assembled.

Important!! Please read the entire install guide twice before starting your instal-

lation. No really, it’s a good idea to read it twice before you begin so everything

goes smooth ;)

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Shifter Cable Install guide

Installing these shifter cable should take 1-3 hours depending on your ex­perience. If you consider yourself inexperienced at installs of this nature,
you may consider seeking help of an experienced professional. The guide
given below illustrates the necessary installation steps. Steps related to
removing some parts that prohibit access to the shifter cables on the
transmission is not included. Typically, several hose clamps and a few
nuts will need to be removed in order to take the intake piping and filter
box out of the engine. We will be working under the hood mainly in the ar­ea circled in the picture below and in the center console inside the car

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Shifter Cable Install guide

Installing these shifter cable should take 1-3 hours depending on your experience. If you consider
yourself inexperienced at installs of this nature, you may consider seeking help of an experienced
professional. The guide given below illustrates the necessary installation steps. Steps related to
removing some parts that prohibit access to the shifter cables on the transmission is not included.
Typically, several hose clamps and a few nuts will need to be removed in order to take the intake
piping and filter box out of the engine.

OEM Cable Removal

STEP 1:

The oem shifter cables are affixed to the
transmission by (2) cotter pins and (2) “c”­shaped linkage clips. First, remove the
(2) cotter pins with your fingers (Fig 1A).
Next, with a flathead screwdriver pry up
the back side of the “c” shaped linkage

Fig 1A

Fig 1B

clip (Fig 1B) then pry from the front, twist­ing the screwdriver (Fig 1C). Once you
have removed both clips you can slide the
endlinks off of the transmission and com­pletely remove the shifter cables from the
transmission side. Set them aside so they
can be pulled out from the bottom of the
car later. (NOTE: pictured in Fig 1A are
Hybrid Racing shifter cable bushings, the
OEM bushings are rubber and may use a
different style pin to hold them in)

STEP 2:

Using a jack or car hoist you will need to
lift the car high enough off the ground to
get under it. Be sure to use only manufac-

Fig 1C

turer approved jacking point and support
locations. NEVER get under a car that is
supported by a jack only!

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OEM Cable Removal

STEP 3:

Next you will need to remove the heat shield for the exhaust Using a 10mm socket or nut driver, re­move the (4) M6 bolts and (2) nuts pictured and rotate the heat shield out from behind the exhaust
(Fig 3A/3B). Depending on your exhaust set up, removal of a catalytic converter or midpipe may be
required to gain access to this heat shield.

Fig 3B

Fig 3A

STEP 4:

Once you have removed the heat shield, you
will need to remove the (2) mounting brack­ets and the mounting plate using a 10mm
socket. For the front bracket remove the (2)
M6 bolts( Fig 4A). For the middle bracket, re­move the (2) nuts (Fig 4B), for now, the
brackets may be left attached to the cables.
Before removing the mounting plate, mark
the orientation of the plate with a sharpie.
Then remove it by removing the (2) nuts and
sliding the plate off the studs (Fig 4C).

Fig 4A

Fig 4B

Fig 4C

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OEM Cable Removal

STEP 5:

For the next set of steps , we will move
into the interior of the car. Start by pull­ing the emergency brake up and un­screwing the shift knob. Next, pull the
shift boot off by pulling straight up on all
four corners of the plastic base. Then
remove the upper center console piece
by grabbing right under the shifter and
pulling straight up(Fig 5).

STEP 6:

Next you will need to use your 8mm nut driver to remove the (4) bolts that hold the center
console down. The front (2) are right in front of the shifter as seen in Fig 6A, and to get to
the rear (2) you must open the center console compartment and remove the rubber mat to
get to them as seen in Fig 6B. Next you will need your flathead screwdriver again to re­move the two plastic push-pin clips in the very front. The one on the left side is right next to
the gas pedal(Fig 6C). To get to the right one you will need to pull the plastic piece under
the glove box off by pulling straight down. This will reveal the right side clip as seen in Fig
6D.

Fig 5

Fig 6A

Fig 6C

Fig 6B

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Fig 6D

OEM Cable Removal

STEP 7:

Now that the center console is not at­tached, slide it into the back seat to give
yourself room to remove the cables from
the shifter. First, using your two thumbs
separate the wire clips holding the
endlinks on the shifter and slide them off
of the ball joints(Fig 7A). Second, you
need to the remove the two bushings lo­cated at the base of the shifter by rotating
them counter-clockwise and sliding out
the side(Fig 7B/7C)

Fig 7A

Fig7B

Fig 7C

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OEM Cable Removal

STEP 8:

The shifter cables should now be unattached completely from the shifter and trans­mission, and now you should be able to pull the cables completely off the car from
the bottom. Be careful pulling them out as the bushings tend to get hung up. Once
they are out we can now begin the installation of the Hybrid Racing shifter cables.

Install Guide

STEP 9:

First we will start with installing the new
transmission selector lever springs. Before
doing so you MUST make sure the car is
in neutral before doing anything else.
Once you are completely sure the car is in
neutral, we will remove the shifter arm as­sembly from the transmission. Start by un­plugging the reverse light switch plug (Fig
9A). With a 10mm socket, remove the (4)
M6 bolts as illustrated in Fig 9B(keep track
of which bolts came from where because
they are different lengths). Next, you will
need an 8mm allen key to remove the low­er retaining interlock bolt as illustrated(Fig
9C). Now you must pull straight up on the
whole assembly to pull it out (you may
need a flathead screwdriver to pry on it
and get it started).

Fig 9A

Fig 9C

Fig 9B

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Install Guide

STEP 10:

With the assembly out on, we can now
swap the springs. This step is much easi­er if you have an another person helping
you. The gear selector is under spring
pressure so start by holding it back with
your hand then using your 12mm boxed
end wrench to remove the M8 bolt as il-

Fig 10A

Fig 10B

lustrated in Fig 10A. Once the bolt is out,
carefully slide the gear selector off, mak­ing sure to keep all the parts in order.
With the selector off you can now swap
the large and small springs with the ones
provided in the kit (IMPORTANT: make
sure not to lose the washer shown with
red arrow touching the smaller spring in
Fig 10B as it must go back on where it
was after swapping the springs for proper
operation of the transmission gear selec­tor). Now that the new springs are in­stalled, slide the gear selector back on
making sure it is on the same way it was
when it came off. If you happen to get the
pieces out of order, the order they go in is

Fig 10C

displayed in Fig 10C.

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Install Guide

STEP 11:

Now that we have the new springs in­stalled, we can re-install the shifter
arm assembly back in the transmis­sion. Before doing so, clean the old
Honda bond off of the base and re­apply new Honda bond evenly with
your finger as illustrated in Fig 11.
Now slide the shifter arm assembly
back into the transmission, put the (4)
M6 bolts back in their original places
and tighten. Using your 8mm allen key
put the lower interlock bolt back in

Fig 11

and tighten, and plug the reverse light
switch plug back as well.

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Install Guide

STEP 12:

With the transmission back together, we
are now ready to install your new Hybrid
Racing shifter cables. First we will need to
remove the two mounting brackets off of
the OEM cables(keep the larger bracket

Fig 12A

Fig 12B

STEP 13:
Now install the bushing insert into the

larger endlink for the transmission side
of the cables. Slide it through the

on the right handy as we will need it in the
install later-Fig 12A) so we can slide the
mounting plate off and slide it onto the
Hybrid Racing cables as illustrated(Fig
12B).

06

07+

Fig 13A

bushing and snap on the retaining ring
as illustrated(Fig 13B). NOTE: You
are given (2) different bushing inserts,
the insert with the groove in it is for
cars years 07+, the one without the
groove is 06 specific(Fig 13A). Be
sure you install the correct insert for
your application.

Fig 13B

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Install Guide

STEP 14:

We will start from the underside of the
car by feeding them up to the trans­mission side first then into the car on
the shifter side. Once you have the ca­bles staying there we can now move
back under the hood. First slide the
end links on the shifter arm assembly
and snap on the (2) cotter pins (Fig
14A). Next, pull back on the cable and
slide the cable bushing into place.
Once the bushings are in place, slide
the (2) “c”-shaped linkage clip back on
like the OEM ones as illustrated (Fig

Fig 14A

14B).

STEP 15:

Moving back into the interior, pull the
cables up to the shifter making sure
that you have them going to the cor­rect side. NOTE: One of the endlinks
has a yellow dot on it, make sure it
goes on the rear of the shifter and
matches the one shown in Fig 15.
Once you have them on the correct
side, push the end links on to the shift­er until the wire clips snap on. Make
sure that cables fit straight on as illus-

Fig 14B

trated in Fig 15, if they do no not you
may have to flip the end link on the
transmission side or they can be ad­justed (Explained in following step)

Fig 15

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Install Guide

STEP 16:

This is an optional step if the orienta­tion of the endlink on the shifter side
is not adequate. To adjust it, loosen
the nut at the base of the endlink, ro­tate to desired orientation, and re­tighten the nut.

STEP 17:
Push the bushings into the correct place on the back side of the shifter and slide on

the “c”-shaped linkage clips provided just as you did with the transmission side. When
completed yours should look like the ones illustrated in Fig 17A/17B.

Fig 17A

Fig 17B

IMPORTANT

Make sure that you can go through all 6 gears and reverse. If you hear a click from

the transmission when moving the shift knob left to right and you cannot shift through

the gears you have the cables backwards on the shifter. Also, if you cannot feel the

distinct notch for the reverse gate you may have forgotten or incorrectly installed the

washer in the shifter arm assembly on the smaller spring. If you do not see either one

of these problems you may put the interior back together at this time if you wish.

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Install Guide

STEP 18:

Next we need to move back under the
car to install the mounting plate back
to the bottom of the car. Slide the plate
back on the studs and using a 10mm
socket put the (2) nuts on to hold it in
place. Before tightening these nuts
make sure the rubber seal is aligned
with the plate correctly as illustrated
(you should NOT see any rubber be­ing squeezed out of the sides).

STEP 19:
Next we need to install the bracket I

said to hold on to in step 4. First slide
the cables onto the bracket but do not
close the bracket or put the clamping
bolt in. First using a 10mm socket put
the (2) M6 bolts in the bracket and
tighten it to the car. Next, adjust the
cables as needed around the exhaust
and install the M6 clamping bolt with a

Fig 18

Fig 19

10mm boxed-end wrench and tighten
as illustrated.

STEP 20:
Finally, using your 10mm socket re-

install the heat shield with the (4) M6
bolts and (2) nuts and your installation
is complete!

Fig 20

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Trouble Shooting & FAQ’s

Tips and tricks to help you get it done!

 Make sure when installing the shifter arm selector springs NOT to forget the washer on the small-

 When reinstalling the shifter arm assembly do not forget to install the interlock bolt and clean the

 Make sure you have the correct bushing insert for your model year in the cable endlink on the

 When installing the Hybrid Racing shifter cables onto the shifter make sure that you have them

 When installing the Hybrid Racing shifter cables make sure that where the end links connect to

 If cables do not actuate smoothly and consistently, they may be bent too tightly at some point.

er spring.

old Honda bond off with a razor blade and recoat with new Honda bond on the base of the as­sembly.

transmission side, if you do not it will either have a lot of play or will not go on.

on the correct side, if you hear a clicking sound when moving the shift knob left to right you have
them backwards.

the shifter they are not in a bind or rubbing on one side and look just like the ones pictures in
FIG15.

Loosen bracket bolts holding the cables in place, adjust cables as necessary and retighten.

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