Cutting the Gear knob

RBSX · Post by **RBSX** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:42 pm

hey guys
cant you make a short shifter by cutting the gearknob shaft shorter
then thred the shaft and screw on the gearknob
will it work ?????

ChemCool · Post by **ChemCool** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:13 am

My gut feel is it will feel shorter and diferent but will not be the real mcoy.

Looking at the shortshifter recently bought, but still not fitted, the angle of the shaft I beleive is the important part??

i can be totally wrong.

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:07 pm

the reason the short shifters work is that the pivot point is moved higher than normal.

this means that less throw will create the same movement below the pivot point. this does however call for the person doing the shifting to use more effort.

in short (scuse the pun) cutting the original shifters shaft will not give you a truely shorter shift. it will feel slightly different to stock but the amount of throw required to engage a particular gear will be the same as before!

i'm not so sure that angle has anything to do with it either.

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:51 am

btw, is everybody now happy with the "group shifters"?
or does nobody want to talk about it anymore? i recall there was some moaning about noises and fitting - that sorted now?

Gary57 · Post by **Gary57** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:14 am

Mine still makes noises but only when my gear knob is on. The reason is the gear knob had plastic threads in it which stripped so I put a helicoil in and now the sound resonates through the steel thread.

RBSX · Post by **RBSX** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:21 pm

thanks guys, so im gona cutt it then

ChemCool · Post by **ChemCool** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:40 pm

thanks guys, so im gona cutt it then

Hugh?

I dont understand it like that????

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:52 am

RBSX wrote:thanks guys, so im gona cutt it then

hmmm, i wonder if i didnt make myself clear!

perhaps my choice of words was not easy to understand.

IT WONT MAKE YOUR SHIFT SHORTER.

Toby · Post by **Toby** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:56 pm

Don't bother VC, it's your sig, we can't take our eyes off it, so we can't hear what you're saying...

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:26 pm

Toby wrote:Don't bother VC, it's your sig, we can't take our eyes off it, so we can't hear what you're saying...

i know what you mean, when i see my old posts, i catch myself staring at the left pic, then the right, then the left, then the right!!!!

but that doesnt change the fact that cutting WONT MAKE THE SHIFT SHORTER!!!

Gary57 · Post by **Gary57** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:51 pm

It will make your shifter shorter but not you shift shorter.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:55 pm

and you know what they say about a short shaft

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:45 pm

Daniel wrote:and you know what they say about a short shaft

Freddy, Daniel is hinting something about your short shaft......

because you cut it and all

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:52 am

Draco wrote:
Daniel wrote:and you know what they say about a short shaft
Freddy, Daniel is hinting something about your short shaft......

because you cut it and all

did he cut his short to match yours???

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:58 am

Nope...he cut it to match yours