Thanks! I am really digging having a stick again (but kept my automatic vert since everybody should have one of each). I used to have a 2001 Corvette Z06 and you had to lift weights to shift the car.

 

Ok...Here is Unhingd Short-Shifter V2.0. Not nearly as elegant as the V1.0 billet shifter, but equally as functional and less expensive. This one is spoken for. If anyone else is interested, I will need to wait for an OEM shifter to come out of a car.

 

I drove a 2004 vette vert this past weekend, as it happens, and I felt like I was on a pogo stick. LOL bouncy springy..... made me love ours.

 

PM me if you need an OEM unit to get things rolling. The likelihood of me ever wanting to reinstall it is exceedingly remote.

 

I am mailing out the shifter to Luc. When he confirms that it works as planned, I will have the next shifter modified. I already have others interested. I do have one more OEM shifter available, but it would be helpful to have another so any interested folks don’t have to wait several weeks for an OEM to be returned to me after the installation of a short shifter. I’ll PM you. Thanks!

 

So I've had the shifter in the car for a couple days now, with my sample consisting of a nice mix of nearly civil town driving in 1-2-3-4, moderate stuff with some nice sweeping turns and some dive-in heel-toe corners in 2-3-4 and living in 3.5k - 5.5k rpm, and one or two little rips on the highway. I think I can safely say that the shifter performs as intended/advertised: shorter throw, (surprisingly) quick shifts, teeny weeny increase in effort to pop it into the next gear (really nothing worth complaining about). I thought I was getting by OK with the OEM shifter, but the contrast is stark - it's really nothing just to pop it into the next gear up or down with this modified lever. Pop and you're there. Quick progressions through the gears are now much more of a blast, much less of a task. Much quicker-feeling too. I'll confess that I did miss a 3-2 downshift going into a corner today (ended up in fourth and felt like a complete fool floating through with no power and squealing front tires), but I'm certain it's just a learning curve item - the rest of the drive was fine after I'd made note of it.

Thumbs up from over here!

 

Do not take this as me criticizing your welding (I likely wouldn't be able to do any better), but have you explored alternatives to welding shaft? Maybe a threaded sleeve?

I read somewhere that gated lambos are prone to snapping shiftiers, I wonder if weld could give out during enthusiastic rowing.

 

I had a similar thought, but there is insufficient length on that section of the OEM shifter to thread the original material. Threading would require welding on additional material anyway. I had them Magnaflux the weld after it was TIG welded and inspected the penetration carefully. Besides, the shifter linkage is so long (substantial flex) that the shifter will not be experiencing significant impact (not like slamming into a shifter gate).

If anyone would like a short-shifter, PM me.

 

Hello, I have a 2017 V6 MT F-type. Where can I find one of these AMAZING short shift kits. I have been combing the internet and still no closer to having a short shift to call my own. Can I get some help? Thanks guys

 

I will PM you.

 

Unhinged, thanks for all your helpful posts. I (literally) just purchased a 2017 MT and was hoping you (or someone) still had shift kits available. These threads are incredibly useful, thanks guys (and gals Brian

 

I'll respond to your PM.

 

Another benefit of a manual (especially with the short-shift mod) that hadn't occurred to me before:

The Mrs. and I were very fortunate to be able to take part in last month's 2020 F-Type Ghost Tour . Arriving at our dinner venue one night we backed our cars into the reserved parking spots trying to keep a reasonably neat line (as usual). And since it was twelve cars traveling together, you want to do this accurately and smoothly, because you don't want to keep your fellow Tourers behind you waiting forever, right? The thing is, It often takes a few back-and-forth sequences to get it right (hey it's an F-Type - if you wanted rear visibility you'd be driving a Prius) especially in this case because it was dark there wasn't much room to maneuver. So everyone jogs between forward and reverse several times.

When it was parked and I got out, fellow Tourer and friend who had just parked next to me (& who drives a sharp R with a host of performance mods), came up and asked if I had done transmission modifications. Puzzled, I said "No, why?" He said "you were moving way faster between forward and reverse than I could, so I figured you must have done something to the transmission." I said "No. It's a manual."

 

I love it when a plan—parking plan that is—comes together.

 

Granted it was at 7am on a Saturday morning, which helped make it a little quicker and easier to park!

 

I have the short shifter but thinking about moving to a manual convertible. Wondering if should take the shifter out of the current car, or preferably, leave it in and use the OEM shifter (I still have) for the v2.0 mod. Any reason not to?

 

Only reason to leave the one in the car now is that it's a pain to swap out. For a private party sale, the short shifter might help the car show a little better. If you have the v1.0, I'd suggest that on principle it's a little better in that it's machined from billet, but I haven't heard of any issues with v2.0. It's two installations one way, one installation and one new shifter the other way.

 

Agreed: They’ll both feel identical and the weld penetration achieved by the fabricator on the modified OEM shifter is superb. The billet unit (which can’t.be seen) looks a lot cooler, but the steel unit is at least as strong.

 

Thanks and agree fewer installations are good. And I'm sure it'll help; it does the job plus it's rare and indestructible.

Good to know. If/when I'm ready, are you still handling it?