Re: Great Find! @ Waterfest!

["Owen" <mr.peepers@home.com>]

I second that.. the bus type shifter on the MK2 is horrible.  How can you
engineer a car that bangs your hand into everything when you shift, and not
change it for the life of the car model (9 years or so).  Anyway, this is
something i definitely needed to address when i bought the car.  I love it
now, its nice and short, and doesn't have that "you're driving a semi" look,
and i can still reach it with ease, even when strapped into my 4 points on
the track.  Anyway, whats wrong with a cheap mod, isn't that the point?  And
what does the ratio between clutch pedal travel and shifting throw have to
do with anything?  Is there some magical ratio that makes driving more fun?

  Anyway, thats all IMO

Owen
87 Scirocco 2.0L 16v #38 C-Modified.
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/1571

         Anyway, i know that was in your humble opinion,
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:53:10AM +0000, Chris DeLong wrote:
> >
> > Well IMHO, cutting dwon the shifter is just about as cheap and stupid of
a
> > mod as you can get. It makes you reach for a shifter that no longer has
> > proportionate throw with respect to the clutch pedal travel. If you have
> > done this I would advise NOT to let anyone else drive it as they will do
> > exactly what TMB did. Once again, ONLY MY OPINION.
>
> I disagree... when I got my car, there was no perceptable differce between
> 1'st, 3'rd, and 5'th. Every time I shifted into 3'rd, i'd bang my knuckles
> on the radio console. Every time i shifted into 5'th, i'd bang by
> passenger's knee. When i wanted to shift out of fifth, i'd have to lean
> forward and grope to find the shifter.
>
> Replacing the bushings, the rubber ball and the shift rod guide helped a
> lot with the sloppiness, but the geometry still sucked.  A homemade short
> shif kit and weighted shifter i built when i still had access to a full
> machine shop helped a with banging knees and dashboard. It's basicaly a
> clone of a techtonics kit... www.angband.org/dan/ss for pics) This was
> much better, but i didn't like the height of the shifter... it felt like i
> was driving a bus. I tried cutting down the stock shifter.. i liked the
> height, but the curvature of the stick made my MOMO tall anatomic handle
> sit weird in my hand. Someone then gave me the shifter from a
> cabriolet... same as a Scirocco but with a straight handle. I cut it to
> the same lenght as my modified scirocco handle, and it's great. I don't
> know what this second gear crunch is that you are all referring to, maybe
> the car's synchros are shot. Other people have driven my car, no one has
> crunched. I now find that my hand nautrally falls to where the shifter is,
> no having to grope for it. The feel of the weighted shifter makes for much
> smoother shifts than before. (I added 1.5 pounds by welding a piece of
> round rod to the seletor rod.)
>
> Dan
>
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