short shifters!!! Options

[synyster37]

so ive been wantin to get a short shifter for my car and i want to see everyone elses so i can get an idea of what its gonna look like! so i wanna see who has the shortest short shifter!

[KAOS]

The actual TRD QuickShift kit is taller than the standard OEM shifter. They built it this way to compensate for the rally driver having his hands on the wheel and then shifter, and then back to the wheel. Less distance traveled I guess... and it makes sense. The entire performance purpose/point of the short shift kit, is less distance traveled on the part of the shifter we DON'T see, to the gear box. Everything from the fulcrum point DOWN should be longer than OEM - this reduces the amount of throw to the gearbox.


So from a performance view - chopping the top off your shifter isn't going to give you any gains.

In conclusion, there would be two types of "Short Throw Shifters" for our car (possibly three, hehehe).
(a) The show kind, where you lob the top off your shift shaft and it "looks" & "feels" like a short shift. Its all for looks.
(b) The performance kind, which require that you use special adapters that "lift" the entire shift assembly up to make room for the lengthened shaft below the fulcrum point. It may not always "look" short in the cabin; but the throws are shortened in the gearbox.
© Both. Where you go through the tedious task of replacing your shifter with a proper performance short throw (like the majority of us have done) and then lobbing off the top of the shifter.

This post has been edited by KAOS: Jun 23, 2010 - 9:27 AM