ummm, I"m pretty sure hacking off the top 2 inches of your shifter has about the same affect (this is the way my crx was when I bought it, felt great). I think that a short shifter and and exhaust make just about any car fun to drive.
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89 Pulsar XE ga15i, BBS/VW 15's Ebay: muffler, strut brace.
Some people like to race all motor,
but I race all stock
ummm, I"m pretty sure hacking off the top 2 inches of your shifter has about the same affect (this is the way my crx was when I bought it, felt great). I think that a short shifter and and exhaust make just about any car fun to drive.
hack off the top?? What did you do, krazy glue the shift knob back on?
did that too but it wont make a "real short shifter"... well it is short but doesnt have the short travelling. you got to try one to feel de difference. Galimba, you on the right way taught!.. IMO you should have left the "crooked" the shifter arm... would have helped a bit too.
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Sentra Sport Coupe 87 Turbo
14.850@97.454mph
H&R Spring, 15psi, TMIC, 370cc, Nismo mount and pulley, Almasi tuned ecu...
No I had an aftermarket shift knob that had these little plastic threaded tubes to fit on different size shifters and it had 3 alen bolts to secure the knob on the plastic threads. So I took out the plastic threads, to fit over the larger lower section, and used the 3 bolts to hold it on the shifter. it worked great up untill I lost all but 1 bolt to it.
I think that it dose make it a short shifter. on normal B&M style SS's they normaly just extend the bottom of the shifter (right?) so the leverage is more 50/50 then factory 25/75. so if you cut off the top it make the ratio closer and making for shorter thow. I know I didn't explain that good, sorry.
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89 Pulsar XE ga15i, BBS/VW 15's Ebay: muffler, strut brace.
Some people like to race all motor,
but I race all stock
I do not see the point of adding a shortened shifter into a B12. The stock shifter is so close it seems almost pointless. Compared to my 300ZX, my Sentra uses very little effort to shift to the next gear, 1st pops right down into 2nd, and so forth. It just seems to me like you are wasting time and effort. Are you guys using the stock GA16i or E16 engines, or do you have something more advanced? I could understand shortening the throws on a GA16DE, SR20, or CA18, but not on the bone-stock B12 engines.
there was some margin for improvement on b12. Im certain that if the one in the 300 has so much angle in the shift pattern, you could D-improve it-Y this way.on the b12, its around 1 feet between the gears. i might try it myself later this summer when ill try squeezing some tenth..
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Sentra Sport Coupe 87 Turbo
14.850@97.454mph
H&R Spring, 15psi, TMIC, 370cc, Nismo mount and pulley, Almasi tuned ecu...
I got a custom-built VQ35DE tranny built for my ZX, so the shifter had to be modified anyway. As for my Sentra, which is my daily driver and sleeper car (those 5.0 Mustangs just hate me because it is so damn quick), shortening the shifter for me would just throw me off. My Sentra has a modified GA16DE in it, with the stock GA16i 5-speed tranny, and the shifting takes me off guard on occassion because of how quickly it engages gears. Once my GA16i tranny shits itself, and eventually it will (no way a 90hp tranny can keep up with an eventually 200hp+ engine), I plan on getting a GA16DE tranny with gears from an SR20. Then, I might work on the shifter... maybe.
Has anyone done this for a pulsar? I'm starting work with my red pulsar in a month or so after the semester is over. How well do you think this would work on the E16I tranny?
OK, compared to my 1999 Sentra, the throw is WAAAAAAY shorter. The only problem I now have (besides the slight scrape on the heat shield in reverse) is that I physycally have to lean foreward slightly to reach and shift. Anyone have that problem or is it more just personal feeling? I dunno, I'll have to drive the car some more.
I shortened my shifter in my 90 pulsar simply by taking a grinder to it and cut about 5 inches off it. loved the feel. Yeah, I also had to lean forward when shifting to 1st 3rd and 5th
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I did that with my '87 Pulsar; It's appalling to know that the Pulsar has a longer throw than the Sentra, but it does!
All I did was hammer the ball up the shaft 5/8 inch, dented in the catalytic converter shroud a little to make swing room, and that's all. It makes the car, as far as 'creature comforts' go.
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I do not see the point of adding a shortened shifter into a B12. The stock shifter is so close it seems almost pointless. Compared to my 300ZX, my Sentra uses very little effort to shift to the next gear, 1st pops right down into 2nd, and so forth. It just seems to me like you are wasting time and effort. Are you guys using the stock GA16i or E16 engines, or do you have something more advanced? I could understand shortening the throws on a GA16DE, SR20, or CA18, but not on the bone-stock B12 engines.
It's not effort it's speed. But I guess you guys say that a sentra has a shorter throw then a pulsar so that might be where the difference in opinon come in. but I'll tell you what, after driving my newly aquired 91 jetta, my pulsar feels like it shifts like a truck.
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Some people like to race all motor,
but I race all stock
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