my 3rd gear syncro failed me runing with AZN i had a stock shifter in it …now i hav a skunk2 ST and its alot more fun to drive firm and not sloppy
Here seamus… heres a little experiament you can do to learn how a short shifter works…
Take a pen between your thumb and index at about the middle of the pen… Draw 2 dots on a piece of paper about an inch or 2 apart…now start moving it back and forth from one dot to the next… now start to move your thumb and index finger closer to the bottom of the pen…
Now this is where you have to pay attention… it gets really tricky… the further you move your fingers down (Changing the pivot point) the bottom of the pen is still move the same distance between the dots but the ammount of travel towards the top is more spaced… but if take your thumb and finger closer to the top of the bottom of the pen still has to move the same ammount to the dots… but the ammount of travel at the top is less…
This is why short throw shifters can only reduece the throw so much… they have to change the pivot point… the more they move it the longer the bottom part of the shifter that sits in the tranny… Which is why most kits come with a bigger spacer to go inside the transmission to allow you to make up for the longer part of the shifter in the transmission
and the more it changes the angle of the selector/linkage, that’s the argument for the other side, which can be detrimental.
Which makes sense as well, it really just depends on the stock shifter design to determine if it can be improved with a ssk.
A proper good quality shifter will not fuck up your transmission… I’ve never seen/heard of it… and yes you can only change that pivot so much as it changes the angle…
A cheap short shifter thats half assed can possibly screw up your transmission as the pivot could be to short on the bottom causing it to not engage properly…
None the less I never heard of B&M shifters screwing up KA trannys
So IMO the argument for the other side is poor…
This thread is lamer than Shady’s sig.
Agreed
unpossible.