This is my favorite shift knob. I made it from an old trailer hitch. It’s big. It’s heavy. It looks gnarly. It feels awesome… But it doesn’t match the persona of my Subaru. It worked on the AE86 with raw home-made stuff everywhere, tight buckets, and a fat deep steering wheel. The WRX is stock and normal and plain and my wife can’t discover that I’m tweaking it to be a little bit less so.
First I tried painting it… black, to match the WRX interior. It didn’t really work. It looked super cheap and every time I touched it I was reminded of finger nails on chalk boards.
So I bought some Plasti-dip and covered it with that. Once again it’s the best shift knob I’ve ever felt. The Plasti-dip is thick enough to fill in little dents and scratches on the bare steel, and gives a bit of a radius on the bends and corners to make it look fairly stockish. To the touch, it is almost soft and supple. Even better, it insulates what can be a very cold cold steel ball on days when the temperature gets below zero. The way the WRX boot is shaped, it even hides the nut I welded onto the bottom.
Way better than spending $120 for a fat plastic MOMO knob.
you have giant hands.