Happy with the short shifter

[djomlas]

i have the same shifter as well and love it, its very well made and with the flipped shaft its even better
for that little money you cant go wrong, and its much shorter of a shift too

[Cloudsurfer]

I have the Schnell and am very pleased. The only thing I'd like to do would be to re-bush the shift shaft into the body to eliminate the tiny bit of play that is there.

Patrick

[Peer]

I don't understand why anyone would lash out dough on something that is so easy to make yourself -- i.e., a home-made short shifter. This is just what I did, and then put on a knockoff MOMO knob:

[porsche986spyder]

Originally Posted by Peer

I don't understand why anyone would lash out dough on something that is so easy to make yourself -- i.e., a home-made short shifter. This is just what I did, and then put on a knockoff MOMO knob:

That's not the correct way to make a short shifter. Cutting the stock one shorter, if that's what you did. The "short shifter" works more with the "angle and shape" of the connecting shaft than it does with the overall hight. That's the wrong way to get a short shifter.

[Tool Pants]

That is the way Porsche did it on the 2004 special edition. The shift lever is 1 inch shorter than the standard shift.

[djomlas]

yes they sure did it that way, but they only got about 15% or so shorter shift, compared to 30% or some, whatever it is that b&m claims.
heck, you can now go as far as to say that cuttin short the b&m shifter will be a good idea as well...

btw, did you notice much difference w cutting it short?

[Tool Pants]

Originally Posted by djomlas

heck, you can now go as far as to say that cuttin short the b&m shifter will be a good idea as well...

One of our local owners, Danny, did this. He cut maybe 2 inches off a B&M. I even pulled his boot up to make sure there was a B&M in there.

Now that is a short shift. Like flipping a light switch.