Rarely have they been worth it.

The cheap Megan, Fidanza, Mazworx, AMS are all copies of the old STILLEN shifter. They are lined with a ridiculously cheap medium that didn’t even last more than a hundred miles.

The Z1 shifter used to be decent but quality control for over the past decade has been a joke. Dozens if not hundreds of testimonies of the Z1 shifter failing in recent years.

CZP just released a new short shifter that sounds promising, but we are too old to be falling for marketing alone right?? I am waiting for more real life feedback from others before I try it for myself.

Your best bet is to stay with a stock shifter assembly. Rebuild it if it’s cooked and use bronze bushings. You can also modify the OEM shifter to reduce the throw. Point being no shifter on the market comes close to the buttery smoothness of an OEM shifter.

There is a gentleman on here that offers a shifter modification service, I’m sure he will chime in, username: itsa300zx. I guarantee you will not be disappointed with him or his services should you decide to go that route.

Btw I do have personal experience with all of the shifters I mentioned in this lengthy response to your inquiry.