Re: Great Find! @ Waterfest!

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <scirocco@absomotherfuckinlutely.com>]

Yeah, I agree with you. I can get mine into all the gears really easily,
and it's partially because it's so loose. I can just flick my wrist and it
drops into gear - doesn't bother me that it's got some play.
	-Josiah

'84 GTi
http://bork.hampshire.edu/josiah

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, the mad bastard wrote:

> 
>     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


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