Re: After market shifters...

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm.jf.intel.com>]

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Tommmm, how's the Purple People Eater?  When are you gonna get some pictures up?

I have a Hurst-style shifter with trigger reverse lockout, 40% shortened throw, 
spring-loaded side gate with positive stops, and a *solid* metal Hurst shift 
knob/handle (bought separately at a general auto store).  Love it!!!  It was a 
simple replacement of the stock shifter i.e. bolt-on.  The hardest part was 
adjusting the new shifter so the shift pattern worked as normal (which really 
isn't hard to do).  You adjust the after-market shift just like the stock 
shifter, however, so if you can do the stock one then this shouldn't be a 
problem.

My only complaint is the Hurst shift handle sometimes gets VERY hot in the 
summer and VERY cold in the winter so sometimes I have to shift with the stick. 
That's why God invented driving gloves ;)  Living in Washington you probably 
would only have to worry about the cold times :p"""

     Toby Erkson, air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L
     Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/

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Subject: After market shifters...
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE_MIME
Date:    12/24/97 8:13 AM


Are the Scat and other like shifters a simple, bolt-on accessory? Do
these kits come with a new bushing? What kinds of experience have folks
had with these critters?

T o M