Pretty slick adapter there Rex. Has a very raw feel to it. The good thing is that the oils in your hand should keep at least one area of it from rusting.
Do you plan on adding another nut to the top, like the bottom, or something else, to have a shifter ball or are you leaving it like that?
Also, I think this is the first time that I have seen where your shifter actually is, relative the the boot location. I can easily see how you would have had some sort of issue before. How long have you had this linkage in now, and how does it feel?
2-1 intercooler....... I spy twins.