Cutting the Gear knob

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 ?????

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.

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. 😉

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?

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.

thanks guys, so im gona cutt it then

thanks guys, so im gona cutt it then

Hugh? 🙄 I dont understand it like that????

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.

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...

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!!!

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

and you know what they say about a short shaft

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 😉

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???

Nope...he cut it to match yours 😉

Draco wrote:

Nope...he cut it to match yours 😉

interesting comeback!!!

i find the first hit is always better than the same (or is that lame) retaliation!!!

True...something I don't understand....why would someone want their shaft as short as yours...it is very interesting...quite the oppisite of logic I suppose...but then again...the rules of logic don't apply when it comes to your short shaft 🙄 😮

veecee wrote:

Draco wrote:

Nope...he cut it to match yours 😉

interesting comeback!!!

i find the first hit is always better than the same (or is that lame) retaliation!!!

Funny you should mention lame....that fits nicely into the logic of your short shaft that might be lame but interesting.....ironic ain't it. 😂

If you cut the cars std shifter shorter, the hand movement is shorter because of the shorter shifter. Since your hand still shifts at the same speed, the shorter distance necessary to cover the same distance, will result in a faster shift. If you move the pivot point higher, the shift will be even faster.
Personally, I would keep the longer stick, just move the pivot point higher. 🙄

Draco wrote:

veecee wrote:

Draco wrote:

Nope...he cut it to match yours 😉

interesting comeback!!!

i find the first hit is always better than the same (or is that lame) retaliation!!!

Funny you should mention lame....that fits nicely into the logic of your short shaft that might be lame but interesting.....ironic ain't it. 😂

hmmm, thats worse than the first one. 😂 😂 😂