SpeedFactory Titanium Shift Arm Housing Bolt Kit B-Series AWD

If you've gone deep enough into a B-series AWD build to be resealing the transmission or swapping shift linkage, you've seen what the factory shift arm housing bolts look like after twenty-something years: rusty 12mm heads that round off right when you need them out. This SpeedFactory titanium kit replaces all five with hardware that matches the rest of a serious AWD build and never corrodes again.

What It Is and Why It Works

The kit is five hollow-domed 6-point flange bolts in M8x1.25 thread, CNC machined from Ti 6Al-4V, the same grade 5 titanium as the rest of SpeedFactory's hardware line. You get three 45mm bolts and two 65mm bolts, which covers the full pattern securing the shift arm housing to a B-series AWD transmission. Titanium's corrosion resistance is the real-world win here, since the shift arm housing sits low where it catches road spray, and the hollow-domed heads drop weight against the stock steel hardware while looking intentional on a built trans. Raw shows natural gray titanium; burnt runs the heat-oxide blue-purple-gold spectrum with the normal piece-to-piece variation that finish carries.

Specs

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Fitment

These fit the shift arm housing on Honda B-series AWD transmissions, which from the factory means the 1997-2001 CR-V drivetrain, and in the real world usually means the AWD-swapped EF, EG, EK, and CRX drag builds running that CR-V gearbox. This kit is confirmed for the AWD housing only, so if you're on a FWD B-series transmission, don't assume the lengths carry over.

What to Know Before You Buy

Same rules as all titanium hardware into aluminum: run anti-seize on the threads, because titanium galls in aluminum cases and a seized M8 in your transmission housing is a miserable way to spend a Saturday. Torque to the factory shift arm housing spec and stop; these are low-torque fasteners in a cast aluminum case, not something to lean on. If the rest of your trans is getting the titanium treatment, SpeedFactory makes matching case bolt and trans-to-engine kits, and their dowel pin for the AWD transfer case belongs on the same order if you're that deep into the gearbox anyway.