Guys --- it's not the sun. I addressed that issue already with a baseball cap in the car to see if shielding it would work. It didn't --- it was just as hot.

I think it's the recipe of: black tarmac parking lot + 100 plus degree heat + transmission/drivetrain heat. All radiating up into the shift knob!

 

Before I exit my car on a hot sunny day I put my Oakley sunglass bag over the shifter. I call it the shifter condom . Seems to do a pretty good job too.

 

if you have a handkerchief or something ..keep it in your car and use it for the first few minutes

 

SPIN2GST --- you might have the solution --- I too, have an Oakley bag I can use . . . .

I can just drive with it on for awhile!

 

this thread looks like mine except withouth the " improper driving technique" part

 

I park directly in the sun, cover my greddy CW shift knob with a hat, and it still gets hotter than the black leather recaros.
What surprised me was that even in direct sunlight, the seats never really get that hot. I get in wearing shorts all the time and they just feel "warm".

 

Trojen

 

Maybe it's hot to you because you're not using the proper shifting techniques that'll eventually cause you to crash your car and die. You should read a "driving for dummies book".

(Inside/outside joke from another thread)

 

I think its good to have a hot shift knob. It teaches you to shift FAST!

 

As you seem to be trying to troll me into this thread by completely misrepresenting my comments, please allow me to clarify a few points:

1. Shut knobs do indeed get hot and the heat's impact can be minimized by using a shifting technique geared to limit the contact between one's hand and the knob.

2. The "driving for dummies book" you refer to is Bob Bondurant on High Performance Driving:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076...023352?ie=UTF8

 

Haha, that's how I learned. I have the Fidanza knob that came with the short throw. It is 100% chrome. Damn does that thing get hot down here in the desert.

 

Damn,and i was gonna say take it inside to. I need to find out how to take my steering wheel inside, the black leather gets pretty hot, it cools down faster than that aluminium shift nob i guess.

 

I'm telling you guys --- it's heat from the transmission tunnel!

 

I'm telling you, when I come out to my car and it hasn't been driven in 9+ hours and the shifter burns my hand thru the gloves before I even turn the car on, I don't think it's the transmission that is warming it up. Maybe up in the NW, but not down here in the SW.

 

So it's not just the knob? The heat carries through the whole shifter? How hot is the parking lot pavement that it can travel up through the car and focus it's energy at the peak of the knob? Sounds like a vindictive car to me. Do you anger it before you park?

And lmao at the 100% chrome knob in the desert.