Spyder shifter? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

jmatta · 12-12-2010, 04:55 AM

They are nice (have a friend who recently ordered one), but that's a year of schooling for my two kids...guess I don't get anything until they're done with their "edumaction".

AndyA6 · 12-12-2010, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by jmatta

They are nice (have a friend who recently ordered one), but that's a year of schooling for my two kids...guess I don't get anything until they're done with their "edumaction".

Amen to above!

I'd like a Spyder but with that kind of extra money one can do a lot of things...

Quickurt · 12-12-2010, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by jmatta

They are nice (have a friend who recently ordered one), but that's a year of schooling for my two kids...guess I don't get anything until they're done with their "edumaction".

I guess I was saying the same thing in a round about way.
I could lower my 06, if I didn't mind it hitting the under nose more than it already does, for about 12oo bucks. I already have lighter, wider and stronger wheels.
The Spyder top just really sucks for an area of the country where I get caught not being able to stop and put up the power top fast enough.
Since the eco melt down and what has happened to the resale/trade value of ALL our cars, there's no way it (or ANY new Boxster/Cayman) is worth my 06 S and 40 grand.

BUt in any case, back to the main question of the thread:

What is that GREAT shifter????

I guess maybe it's the GT3 set-up?

I was also sad to hear my old friend Buddy Kennedy has retired as parts manager at Brumos. He was already parts manager when I crewed on the race team, in 1974! Why leave so soon?? :-) He and his expertise will be missed.

AndyA6 · 12-12-2010, 08:11 AM

Only way to find out is to buy a Spyder shifter!

Maybe the next "must-have-mod"?

Quickurt · 12-12-2010, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by AndyA6

Only way to find out is to buy a Spyder shifter!

Maybe the next "must-have-mod"?

I'm pretty sure its a 9X7 something, GT3, GT2. 997 short shift. Porsche makes all that stuff interchangeable in model runs and sometimes retrofittable like 9X7 shifters into 9X6 cars.

Quickurt · 12-14-2010, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by ronoroa.zoro8

What is the source of its speed range with solid aluminium bushings shifter is nothing short of amazing when you realize how much these jacks, change the direction of the Spyder. By replacing the factory rubber bushings with solid aluminium units, the speed footage banish Source spongy, without direction from the factory to handle. The shifter is showing the urgency, mechanics intended.

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say. Do they have aluminum bushings throughout the shift linkage and mechanisms or just in the interior mounted shift mechanism? The stock interior unit in my 987 S had hard poly bushings and were replaced with hard poly bushings inside adjustable aluminum housings with the Schnell unit.
The Schnell unit has a definite feel to it, in that there is a distinct shift from current gear into nuetral before the distinct shift to the next gear. The Spyder unit, while about the same throw length (and one would expect effort input level) had no "clunkyness" to it. It was smooth as silk.