Whoodoo
Well-known member
First things first: I've been looking at options for shortening up the throw and improving shift feel. Here's what I've gathered so far:
-JNZ sells a short shifter (same design as the mofugas which is NLA), delrin shifter bushings that go on the transmission end of the cables, and a bushing kit for the shifter plate that also includes a bushing that goes in the bottom part of the shift arm (the side to side pivot).
-There is a member here (blue642) that will be making a run of delrin bushings that replace all the nylon(?) bits that came from the factory.
-The easiest, and possibly cheapest, route is to just get a 1g shifter, but this doesn't actually shorten the throw (i.e. reduce the angle required to change gear), it only moves the shift knob lower down towards the console.
I would really like to not only lower the height of the shifter itself, but also get a shorter throw and take out some of that spongy feeling. If you've used any of these products I'd greatly appreciate your input.
Second, I recently took advantage of tirerack.com's special on blizzak snow tires (thanks again RockGVR4 for the heads up!). The tires are 245/40-17's so that means getting a set of 17x8 inch wheels. I've looked around to see what kind of offset works. After doing some digging, the wheels I want to get have a 35mm offset. Turbowop (Mark I believe?) has this exact same wheel/tire size combo but he has his front camber at -2.3*. Do I need to have that much camber in order to eliminate rubbing? I have a completely stock car right now, so would that mean getting camber plates/camber bolts? Camber plates are expensive and the bolts only give +/- .5* right?
Sorry for the long post, but I figure you'd all rather see one long post than a spattering of smaller ones. Thanks a bunch in advance. You GVR4 guys really know what you're talking about! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worthy.gif
Alan
-JNZ sells a short shifter (same design as the mofugas which is NLA), delrin shifter bushings that go on the transmission end of the cables, and a bushing kit for the shifter plate that also includes a bushing that goes in the bottom part of the shift arm (the side to side pivot).
-There is a member here (blue642) that will be making a run of delrin bushings that replace all the nylon(?) bits that came from the factory.
-The easiest, and possibly cheapest, route is to just get a 1g shifter, but this doesn't actually shorten the throw (i.e. reduce the angle required to change gear), it only moves the shift knob lower down towards the console.
I would really like to not only lower the height of the shifter itself, but also get a shorter throw and take out some of that spongy feeling. If you've used any of these products I'd greatly appreciate your input.
Second, I recently took advantage of tirerack.com's special on blizzak snow tires (thanks again RockGVR4 for the heads up!). The tires are 245/40-17's so that means getting a set of 17x8 inch wheels. I've looked around to see what kind of offset works. After doing some digging, the wheels I want to get have a 35mm offset. Turbowop (Mark I believe?) has this exact same wheel/tire size combo but he has his front camber at -2.3*. Do I need to have that much camber in order to eliminate rubbing? I have a completely stock car right now, so would that mean getting camber plates/camber bolts? Camber plates are expensive and the bolts only give +/- .5* right?
Sorry for the long post, but I figure you'd all rather see one long post than a spattering of smaller ones. Thanks a bunch in advance. You GVR4 guys really know what you're talking about! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worthy.gif
Alan