Re: Great Find! @ Waterfest!

["the mad bastard" <the-mad-bastard@home.com>]

    that guy let me sit in the car as well.  it was so beautiful, and the
shifter was really tight, but almost too tight.  does anyone else here sort
of prefer the "sloppy" shifter?  i've completely replaced all of the little
rubber/foam bushings and adjusted my linkage to as tight as it's gonna get,
and there's still quite a bit of sloppiness in it.  but i love it!

    people want short shifters, weighted shiftrods, super-precise
linkages...i dunno, i can't handle them.  a buddy of mine has a worked mk3
golf with a shortened shifter and weighted shiftrod.  one of the first times
we hung out, we're at this gathering with probably 60 or so people.  he
threw me the keys and tells me to take it for a ride.  so i get in, and play
with the shifter for a second, getting a feeling for it, and the first time
that i shift it into second gear, i jammed second.  hard

    it was embarassing.  i just could not get the feel for it.  i drove it
around a bit more and got more and more used to it, but just couldn't get
into it.

    just my opinion...

    once again, i saw the linkage kit, felt it, and took pix of it.  it's a
fantastically-well manufactured piece of equipment, just not up my alley


----- Original Message -----
From: Benjamin Harder <vwtype53@yahoo.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Great Find! @ Waterfest!


>
> --- XXSpArCoXx@aol.com wrote:
> <snip>
> <Now the part that got me was the 15 year old
> > mint
> > with now play linkage it was running. It had no bushings in it at all.
> > Where
> > all the bushing used to be he had spherical bearings and sealed roller
> > bearings. It was all adjustable with threaded stainless links and new
> > stainless levers. They were awesome. They aren't available yet but I'm
> > sure
> > if I bug them enough they will push for a release date and start making
> > them.
>
>  I saw these also...the owner of the mk1 let me sit in the car and
> shift through the gears...WOW!  It was a very clean and precice feel
> and best of all...there was absolutely NO play!
> I was told that these will be made from all stainless steel parts and
> the joints are made from Delrin material...the kit is also adjustable
> to make it a short shift.
> The expected price will be around $200.  Not bad for a bulletproof
> shift kit!
>
>
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