excessive shifter play

[boxxster]

If someone else doesn't chime in I'll check my 997 shifter tomorrow and let you know. Perhaps you're just paying way more attention to the shifter now that you've put a new one in? Assuming you put the cables exactly where they were before, it should be functioning the same as your old one did, albeit with a small reduction in throw.

[CrisZenithBlue]

There was play before, maybe not as much but i am just curious if this is normal or too much and if there is a way to improve it. at the moment i am pretty happy with everything on the car but this shifter just lets it down a bit..

[boxxster]

Originally Posted by CrisZenithBlue

at the moment i am pretty happy with everything on the car but this shifter just lets it down a bit..

I felt the same way about the stock shifter. Way too long and ropey. Worse than my mini and total crap if you've ever driven an s2000. For me the 997 shifter didn't transform the driving experience or anything, it just changed the shifting from something I was pretty unimpressed with to something that I could make do with.

[CrisZenithBlue]

Originally Posted by boxxster

I felt the same way about the stock shifter. Way too long and ropey. Worse than my mini and total crap if you've ever driven an s2000. For me the 997 shifter didn't transform the driving experience or anything, it just changed the shifting from something I was pretty unimpressed with to something that I could make do with.

well that's the issue.. my previous car was an S2000

i am hard to impress after that experience. the S kinda ruined all other shifters for me so it's hard to accept.
but it's like finding a woman with small breasts if you're an a$$ man. you want to improve it if possible but you can live with it if nothing can be done. and the Boxster has a fine a$$ indeed!