short throw shifter for us lancer for free
short throw shifter for us lancer for free
i juts did my own mads to my lancer all the sites want like 150 bucks for a short throw kit all you need is an ichybahn shift knob (or some other knob that set screws on) and a industral strenght bolt cutter take your center console out snip all the threads off the shifter shaft thingy and grind off the welded on washer replace center console screw on your shift knob and look and see how much shorter the shift is ill take some pics and send em when i get the camra back
god i sometimes amaze myself its starnge how a little stupidity+not fealing mentaly well that day+hight strenght tools+a dreamel tool (those things are great)= a work of art ( wasnt pichaso like psyco or something?)
anyone who would liek to thank me for my stupidity is more then welcome
someone tell me if this was a good idea or you guys think it is bad
anyone who would liek to thank me for my stupidity is more then welcome
someone tell me if this was a good idea or you guys think it is bad
Just info for you. Short shifter pivots on a ball. Shortening top above ball ruins leverage a bit. Kind of out of balance. A machined shifter rod is lengthened below the ball and shortened above the ball.
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Re: short throw shifter for us lancer for free
Originally posted by liquidlancer
i juts did my own mads to my lancer all the sites want like 150 bucks for a short throw kit all you need is an ichybahn shift knob (or some other knob that set screws on) and a industral strenght bolt cutter take your center console out snip all the threads off the shifter shaft thingy and grind off the welded on washer replace center console screw on your shift knob and look and see how much shorter the shift is ill take some pics and send em when i get the camra back
i juts did my own mads to my lancer all the sites want like 150 bucks for a short throw kit all you need is an ichybahn shift knob (or some other knob that set screws on) and a industral strenght bolt cutter take your center console out snip all the threads off the shifter shaft thingy and grind off the welded on washer replace center console screw on your shift knob and look and see how much shorter the shift is ill take some pics and send em when i get the camra back
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Your shifter is a lever, the pivot ball being the fulcrum. The reason the input side of the lever is longer is because consumers will complain if they have to make an effort to move the shifter...(god forbid..they could have bought an automatic) so this along with top weighting the shifter makes shifts more smooth. A short throw shifter repositions the fulcrum making the lower portion of the lever longer. The distance ratio of the lever changes, lowering your mechanical advantage, but decreasing the distance your hand has to travel while at the same time increasing the distance the lower portion travels. A by product is that the lower portion also travels much faster in respect to your hand motion, because it must cover a greater radius in the time it takes you to shift. Cutting off your shifter at the top will decrease the radius your hand has to travel to make a shift, but by only an insignificant figure. Simply doing this will not make your shifts significantly shorter or faster. It will only make your shifter itself shorter....which may look cool but misses the whole point.
Last edited by m_allard; Mar 7, 2002 at 02:35 AM.
yea but i mesured out the "short throw" on my car and it did make the shift shorter by like 2 inches or so how is this defeting the purpose? even if you did shift at te same speed witht he cut down shifter it still is gonna get there faster because you dont need to travel as far maybe it doesent get the whole thing but when it is cut down it saves a little doese it not? the whole poont in modding something is to make it better faster stronger ect. cutting down the shifter reduced throw travel thus making it better and/or faster correct me if im wrong just tryin to figuer this whole thing out im not sayin that you yourselvs are wrong it is just maybe im coming from somewere3 diferent
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RPW Short Shifters
RPW does a short shifter setup that does teh followign
(A) Is shorter around 30mm on the length of the shifter
(B) Is lengthened after the pivot point to reduce the throw
This combination will obviously reduce the overall throw of the shifter.
But we also modify the side movement as well so that the shifting pattern sideways is shorter and hence you have our Rally Spec shifter assembly.
We are now producing these for the 2002 Lancer models for those interested.
David Thomas
www.rpw.com.au
(A) Is shorter around 30mm on the length of the shifter
(B) Is lengthened after the pivot point to reduce the throw
This combination will obviously reduce the overall throw of the shifter.
But we also modify the side movement as well so that the shifting pattern sideways is shorter and hence you have our Rally Spec shifter assembly.
We are now producing these for the 2002 Lancer models for those interested.
David Thomas
www.rpw.com.au
b&m shifter
Road race sells a B&M short throw that advertises a reduction of about an inch. After I put that on I found about a half inch reduction (at best), but the shifter does look good-good and low on the center console.
Sounds like I should have waited for the RPW shifter.
Sounds like I should have waited for the RPW shifter.
