Quote Originally Posted by itsnotarex
I was just going to edit my post but IA is having issues.

It's important to note that a short shifter isn't actually shorter lever necessarily, it's just a change in the geometry of the linkage and the shift lever. It rases the coupling to the linkage up a little bit, so it doesn't really matter how short the lever is.
I realize that like I said I was just worried I installed it wrong or something. But i talked to someone on the eclipse forums seems like everything is ok. I gotta see if I ca nlet some slack out of the boot though cause it's so tall you almost have to force it back cause the boot is so tight