[Re: OT :Mr Murphy]

[Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com (Larry)]

Ha!  Good one....
(I have yet to reconcile the ADDING of weight to our cars to make it work
better....)
Larry

>
> Original message:
>
> > Now fess up, I know the rest of you have done some "entertaining "
things.
>
> Ok, I'll fess up. Last week I ordered a bunch of heim joints with the
intent
> of building a positive, short, weighted shifter. It went together
perfectly
> and I was thinking of typing up a tech note on this so that others could
do
> it but I held off for some reason. Turns out there was good reason to
wait.
>
> Everything was right except the weight. I went to my metal supplier and
said
> that I needed a slug that was 4 7/8" long. "All I have is 2 1/2" in
> diameter". "Ok" I say, knowing that I can always make another if for some
> reason it doesn't work. I took it home and welded the 3/8x24x1 1/2" bolts
on
> to it to thread into the heim joints and the thing was almost 7 lbs. Way
too
> heavy I'm thinking but I'll try it. Well with that much weight you can't
> feel the gates in the transmission and I believe this is hard as all get
out
> on the synchros but I get used to it in the first ten to twenty miles and
> I'm grinning. That was yesterday, today Mr. Murphy caught up with me at
the
> auto cross. It seems that in that second gear hard right hand sweeper the
> centrifugal force of that 7 lbs. would pull it into neutral every time. I
> spent the rest of the day driving with one hand on the wheel and the other
> on the shifter.
>
> There are two morals to this story. First when they say around two lbs.
> there is good reason for this. Second if you loose Mr. Murphy for a while
> you can rest assured that he will catch up.
>
> Modifications to be made then a tech note to be written.
>
> Rick Alexander
> http://www.brubakerbox.com
> http://clubs.hemmings.com/hams/
> http://clubs.hemmings.com/vwsrus/
>
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