Manual Short Throw Shifter - Herrod Vs Mal Wood

[Venom XR Turbo]

Also,

I will be getting my gear-stick shortened by 25mm - most who buy MW shifter seemed to opt for this, and reckon it makes a different feel for the gears again.

Cheers

[LUMO]

ripshifter is $500 dude, where as maks is 375 and does the same job...

[turbo.vixen]

there is a group buy for the mal woods short shifter, put your name down, $330 delivered + stubby cooler and cap woot woot

[seventytwo]

Also, FYI, according to Mal Wood himself:

The shifter is quite straight forward to fit but you will need to use a hoist to get the car up so you can work on it. You will have to separate the exhaust just after the cat, lower the transmission and loosen the centre bearing bolts this way you can reach up and remove the existing shifter and then fit the new one.

you dont need to split the exhaust, the job is quite easy to do your self but the gold plate is a bastard to get out.

[bigmat]

Has anyone tried one of these on their Tremec manuals ?, big $ but hey....

Bump Shifter half way down the page

Either the wheel mounted paddle stuff, or the bump stick (which I would prefer), get the best of both worlds a manual that you can truly control quickly and maybe even shift faster...with the clutchless mod to the ecu...hmmm

[bigmat]

anybody?

[6speedXR8]

there is a group buy for the mal woods short shifter, put your name down, $330 delivered + stubby cooler and cap woot woot

The discussions on shifters always amuse me when someone is asked why one is better than the other and the response is I know a bloke who said these are good or whatever!!!!

One of the shifters mentioned is old design copied off a well known brand in the US.

There is basicly two shifter designs one uses two little coil springs under the crosspin and these types get sloppy over time when the coil springs ( compression springs) weaken, the ( FORD) V8 utes used this design (Steeda) for years and had big issues with wear and when we rebuilt the transmissions we were always reworking the shifter to get a bit more life out of them.

The compression spring shifters, to name a few, B&M including the Ripper shifter, RIP shifter, Hurst all wear premeturely when used for 6 speeds where the shifter is operated through 4 gates were the main problem is the compression spring under the crosspin on the right hand side is completely compressed and coil binds when selecting 6th.

Some shifters have shift stops and these are really not necessary in street cars or in any cars for that matter!!! If the driver shifts gears with an open hand technique you will NEVER damage a transmission.

Most transmissions that have come through my shop that have had shifters with shift stops have not had the shifter adjusted properly anyway!

The other type of shifter uses a wave spring design as used in the original Ford and Holdens when fitted with a T5 or a T56, all have shifters that have wave springs in them (except for the VE)

The wave spring design, in my professional opinion, is far superior as the wave springs do not suffer the same issues as the coil spring type and the springs can be increased to give better shift centering ( the so called Straight Gate design as advertised for other shifters is an ABSOLUTE LOAD OF CRAP)

When I started hand building shifters many years ago I started with the factory Tremec shifters and shifted the pivot point therefore shortening the Throw and then worked on spring ratios to get the shift just right, the shift had to be free of NVH,Noise Vibration and Harsness, yet still deliver possitive, precise and smooth shifts.

The Mal Wood Auto shifter delivers to the driver a superior shift to standard yet without compromising quality in our quality cars, afterall how quick a driver can shift the gears comes down to three basic things .... Brain to Hand to Foot coordination not how short the throw is!!!

Regards, Mal