📓 Journals kitkat's Emira

[marc1adrien]

Let's say it's not. For argument sake.

It does not look like a terrifically complicate "swap" to redesign a thinner shaft that would include a ball joint end such as part 3, that would fit in the base part (7).

The biggest challenge I see in that would be whether the upper shift linkage (mount part 5, cable end 46 etc). Would be able to be screwed onto a shaft thin enough to get the job done. A separate collar mechanism might be needed at that point. (Slides over the top with shift ball removed down to an indexed part of the shaft or similar

And Ferrarris at least have a flattened "pinched" portion of the shaft that interacts with the gate.

 

[Tomwa]

And Ferrarris at least have a flattened "pinched" portion of the shaft that interacts with the gate.

I see what you mean in this particular case

But I don't think all shift levers are like that. The F 360 for instance I don't think is.

 

[kitkat]

Some photo dumps:

 

[Beardedbradley]

Some photo dumps:

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Fantastic pictures. The first image is beautiful

 

[Tomwa]

Interesting side note. (just reminded because of the prior part of the thread)

It seems the "gated shifter" may have been overly romanticized. While I agree it look great, and we talk about it as a sign of a 'quality' shifter. Generally speaking, it likely was not a particularly intended.

The channels for the shift lever to travel within were more about constraining the lever to only follow those paths, that when left to their own machinations it would be about as vague and wandering as any of their 'sloppy' counterparts.

Today we talk about a gated shifter being emblematic of a precise and refined hardware, that you can't accomplish a gated shifter without precision and craft, when actually, the gates and plate are actually necessary to create that precision, rather than exemplify it.

 

[allenyao09]

Very nice photo shots. Is yours lowered? I know you have 12 mm spacers fitted.

 

[kitkat]

Very nice photo shots. Is yours lowered? I know you have 12 mm spacers fitted.

It isn't lowered, just often under load by my weight and inertia