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The original C5 shifter would work fine, it's just a problem of the floor cover plate from an old truck not fitting a new truck. The old ones (87? and older?) are smaller and although two of the holes line up on a newer cab, the plate won't fill the hole.
The solution here is to find a blank floor plate from an 89 or newer automatic 2wd or 4x4 electric shift RBV, remove all of the shifter hardware from the older floor plate, cut and drill the newer blank plate, and reattach the shifter. That is actually what I did for my C5 swap, I am using a C5 shifter, but it was broken and missing pieces so it's kind of a cluster at the moment but it at least shifts. I have a B&M Unimatic and yet another blank floor plate that will be the final solution.
The solution here is to find a blank floor plate from an 89 or newer automatic 2wd or 4x4 electric shift RBV, remove all of the shifter hardware from the older floor plate, cut and drill the newer blank plate, and reattach the shifter. That is actually what I did for my C5 swap, I am using a C5 shifter, but it was broken and missing pieces so it's kind of a cluster at the moment but it at least shifts. I have a B&M Unimatic and yet another blank floor plate that will be the final solution.