I've had a short shifter fitted to my C2S for almost as long as I've had the car, fitting it was one of the first jobs I carried out when I bought the car.
It's one of the generic Chinese manufactured ones and it improves the feel of the gear changes immensely, however when I fitted it I did notice the ball for the left to right action of the lever dispenses with the engineered socket insert that the original uses. As the ball is larger it fills the square hole left by the omitted original insert and this has always struck me as not a very well engineered solution as the ball is only touching the square socket in four locations. I don't know whether it's the placebo effect or not but I've always felt the left to right action as being a little compromised compared with the original shifter albeit with a shorter throw.
Anyway the opportunity to buy a new genuine Porsche short shift kit at less than a third of retail presented itself so I thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to buy it and get it fitted.
Below you can see the kit I had fitted, the socket that niggled me is the one on the left in the white nylon lever but the metal housings for the left right pivots are also also a very bulky solution!
Here it is with all the covers removed.
Side by side with the new kit you can see the differences, the throw (the fulcrum points) are virtually identical to the Porsche short shift original.
Here you can see the difference in the fulcrum point compared to the original 'long shift' lever, it doesn't look like much but makes a huge difference to the action.
Here's the new kit going in.
One point that may help anyone doing this job is clarification of the disconnection of the gear lever gaiter from the shifter knob itself. The online guides I've read tell you to grip the piece under the gear knob and twist to allow you to pull the knob off but dont seem to make clear what the piece looks like or what direction to twist or how far!
The section to turn is connected to the gaiter and looks like this in situ.
Looking from above it needs to be rotated through 90 degrees clockwise to release the knob itself.
With the knob removed you can see how it works in these photos. When locked it looks like this:
And when rotated through 90 degrees it looks like this, the two cutouts align with those in the knob itself to allow the clearance for removal.
Remember when refitting it it's 90 degrees anticlockwise to lock it!
Anyway, the OEM kit is now fitted and as I've already said it's probably the placebo effect but the change does seem more precise with less side to side play!
If anyone needs a Chinese short shift kit drop me a pm! :thumb:
It's one of the generic Chinese manufactured ones and it improves the feel of the gear changes immensely, however when I fitted it I did notice the ball for the left to right action of the lever dispenses with the engineered socket insert that the original uses. As the ball is larger it fills the square hole left by the omitted original insert and this has always struck me as not a very well engineered solution as the ball is only touching the square socket in four locations. I don't know whether it's the placebo effect or not but I've always felt the left to right action as being a little compromised compared with the original shifter albeit with a shorter throw.
Anyway the opportunity to buy a new genuine Porsche short shift kit at less than a third of retail presented itself so I thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to buy it and get it fitted.
Below you can see the kit I had fitted, the socket that niggled me is the one on the left in the white nylon lever but the metal housings for the left right pivots are also also a very bulky solution!
Here it is with all the covers removed.
Side by side with the new kit you can see the differences, the throw (the fulcrum points) are virtually identical to the Porsche short shift original.
Here you can see the difference in the fulcrum point compared to the original 'long shift' lever, it doesn't look like much but makes a huge difference to the action.
Here's the new kit going in.
One point that may help anyone doing this job is clarification of the disconnection of the gear lever gaiter from the shifter knob itself. The online guides I've read tell you to grip the piece under the gear knob and twist to allow you to pull the knob off but dont seem to make clear what the piece looks like or what direction to twist or how far!
The section to turn is connected to the gaiter and looks like this in situ.
Looking from above it needs to be rotated through 90 degrees clockwise to release the knob itself.
With the knob removed you can see how it works in these photos. When locked it looks like this:
And when rotated through 90 degrees it looks like this, the two cutouts align with those in the knob itself to allow the clearance for removal.
Remember when refitting it it's 90 degrees anticlockwise to lock it!
Anyway, the OEM kit is now fitted and as I've already said it's probably the placebo effect but the change does seem more precise with less side to side play!
If anyone needs a Chinese short shift kit drop me a pm! :thumb:
