Short Shifter, Anyone?
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or it is like you are in a convoy as a big rig trucker, because even my Jeep Wrangler had a shorter throw and I believe the stick-shift was about 2 feet long. LOL
I am so happy for you. I'm away from my car, on the east coast, and just had the opportunity to drive a 2006 Corvette, manual. Icannot get over how special our F-Type is, and you grabbing one of the last greatest manual transmission cars on the planet Earth is something to cherish and enjoy and celebrate and appreciate.
Congratulations, new human member person. It's truly one of the last great joys of feeling deeply connected to a machine.
I am so happy for you. I'm away from my car, on the east coast, and just had the opportunity to drive a 2006 Corvette, manual. Icannot get over how special our F-Type is, and you grabbing one of the last greatest manual transmission cars on the planet Earth is something to cherish and enjoy and celebrate and appreciate.
Congratulations, new human member person. It's truly one of the last great joys of feeling deeply connected to a machine.
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evilftypedw (03-10-2020)
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or it is like you are in a convoy as a big rig trucker, because even my Jeep Wrangler had a shorter throw and I believe the stick-shift was about 2 feet long. LOL
I am so happy for you. I'm away from my car, on the east coast, and just had the opportunity to drive a 2006 Corvette, manual. Icannot get over how special our F-Type is, and you grabbing one of the last greatest manual transmission cars on the planet Earth is something to cherish and enjoy and celebrate and appreciate.
Congratulations, new human member person. It's truly one of the last great joys of feeling deeply connected to a machine.
I am so happy for you. I'm away from my car, on the east coast, and just had the opportunity to drive a 2006 Corvette, manual. Icannot get over how special our F-Type is, and you grabbing one of the last greatest manual transmission cars on the planet Earth is something to cherish and enjoy and celebrate and appreciate.
Congratulations, new human member person. It's truly one of the last great joys of feeling deeply connected to a machine.
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I drove a 2004 vette vert this past weekend, as it happens, and I felt like I was on a pogo stick. LOL bouncy springy..... made me love ours.
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PM me if you need an OEM unit to get things rolling. The likelihood of me ever wanting to reinstall it is exceedingly remote.
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Unhingd (03-13-2020)
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So I've had the shifter in the car for a couple days now, with my sample consisting of a nice mix of nearly civil town driving in 1-2-3-4, moderate stuff with some nice sweeping turns and some dive-in heel-toe corners in 2-3-4 and living in 3.5k - 5.5k rpm, and one or two little rips on the highway. I think I can safely say that the shifter performs as intended/advertised: shorter throw, (surprisingly) quick shifts, teeny weeny increase in effort to pop it into the next gear (really nothing worth complaining about). I thought I was getting by OK with the OEM shifter, but the contrast is stark - it's really nothing just to pop it into the next gear up or down with this modified lever. Pop and you're there. Quick progressions through the gears are now much more of a blast, much less of a task. Much quicker-feeling too. I'll confess that I did miss a 3-2 downshift going into a corner today (ended up in fourth and felt like a complete fool floating through with no power and squealing front tires), but I'm certain it's just a learning curve item - the rest of the drive was fine after I'd made note of it.
Thumbs up from over here!
Thumbs up from over here!
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Do not take this as me criticizing your welding (I likely wouldn't be able to do any better), but have you explored alternatives to welding shaft? Maybe a threaded sleeve?
I read somewhere that gated lambos are prone to snapping shiftiers, I wonder if weld could give out during enthusiastic rowing.
I read somewhere that gated lambos are prone to snapping shiftiers, I wonder if weld could give out during enthusiastic rowing.
Last edited by SinF; 04-05-2020 at 08:06 AM.
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Do not take this as me criticizing your welding (I likely wouldn't be able to do any better), but have you explored alternatives to welding shaft? Maybe a threaded sleeve?
I read somewhere that gated lambos are prone to snapping shiftiers, I wonder if weld could give out during enthusiastic rowing.
I read somewhere that gated lambos are prone to snapping shiftiers, I wonder if weld could give out during enthusiastic rowing.
If anyone would like a short-shifter, PM me.
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SinF (04-06-2020)
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Another benefit of a manual (especially with the short-shift mod) that hadn't occurred to me before:
The Mrs. and I were very fortunate to be able to take part in last month's 2020 F-Type Ghost Tour . Arriving at our dinner venue one night we backed our cars into the reserved parking spots trying to keep a reasonably neat line (as usual). And since it was twelve cars traveling together, you want to do this accurately and smoothly, because you don't want to keep your fellow Tourers behind you waiting forever, right? The thing is, It often takes a few back-and-forth sequences to get it right (hey it's an F-Type - if you wanted rear visibility you'd be driving a Prius) especially in this case because it was dark there wasn't much room to maneuver. So everyone jogs between forward and reverse several times.
When it was parked and I got out, fellow Tourer and friend who had just parked next to me (& who drives a sharp R with a host of performance mods), came up and asked if I had done transmission modifications. Puzzled, I said "No, why?" He said "you were moving way faster between forward and reverse than I could, so I figured you must have done something to the transmission." I said "No. It's a manual."
The Mrs. and I were very fortunate to be able to take part in last month's 2020 F-Type Ghost Tour . Arriving at our dinner venue one night we backed our cars into the reserved parking spots trying to keep a reasonably neat line (as usual). And since it was twelve cars traveling together, you want to do this accurately and smoothly, because you don't want to keep your fellow Tourers behind you waiting forever, right? The thing is, It often takes a few back-and-forth sequences to get it right (hey it's an F-Type - if you wanted rear visibility you'd be driving a Prius) especially in this case because it was dark there wasn't much room to maneuver. So everyone jogs between forward and reverse several times.
When it was parked and I got out, fellow Tourer and friend who had just parked next to me (& who drives a sharp R with a host of performance mods), came up and asked if I had done transmission modifications. Puzzled, I said "No, why?" He said "you were moving way faster between forward and reverse than I could, so I figured you must have done something to the transmission." I said "No. It's a manual."
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Mbourne (11-10-2020)
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takeapieandrun (11-15-2020)
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Only reason to leave the one in the car now is that it's a pain to swap out. For a private party sale, the short shifter might help the car show a little better. If you have the v1.0, I'd suggest that on principle it's a little better in that it's machined from billet, but I haven't heard of any issues with v2.0. It's two installations one way, one installation and one new shifter the other way.
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Jim F (04-23-2021)
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Only reason to leave the one in the car now is that it's a pain to swap out. For a private party sale, the short shifter might help the car show a little better. If you have the v1.0, I'd suggest that on principle it's a little better in that it's machined from billet, but I haven't heard of any issues with v2.0. It's two installations one way, one installation and one new shifter the other way.
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Only reason to leave the one in the car now is that it's a pain to swap out. For a private party sale, the short shifter might help the car show a little better. If you have the v1.0, I'd suggest that on principle it's a little better in that it's machined from billet, but I haven't heard of any issues with v2.0. It's two installations one way, one installation and one new shifter the other way.
Agreed: They’ll both feel identical and the weld penetration achieved by the fabricator on the modified OEM shifter is superb. The billet unit (which can’t.be seen) looks a lot cooler, but the steel unit is at least as strong.