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Ferrari Style Gear shift Gate
RichyMkIndy - 7/7/03 at 09:48 AM

me and greggors would like to fit one of these to our indy were making, we have only seen them for sale for £80 ! in one of the kit car mags... surely another place sells them or we can get them inported from america ? searching on the net has not been successful so far... we just wanna have that great sound when you change gear in a ferriari the clunking


andyps - 7/7/03 at 02:44 PM

You could try getting one cut by a company who have laser cutting machines, this is what I am thinking of for that time in the future when I have a car built.

The place local to me who do this is Quality Components, tel 01977 618160. They can cut up to about 10mm aluminium and up to 25mm steel. Not sure how you figure what size and length to make the slots however.


Jasper - 7/7/03 at 03:21 PM

U2U Merlin, he does laser cutting.


jonti - 7/7/03 at 04:01 PM

Not sure how you figure what size and length to make the slots however.




You could make a cardboard one and frig about with it till its right, then xfer the pattern on to your ally (blue peter 1964)

Jasper , your motor dont 'arf look nice !!!

[Edited on 7/7/03 by jonti]


RichyMkIndy - 7/7/03 at 05:19 PM

http://www.arouse.com.au/theferraristable/carsf/F360gearstick.JPG

yeah i will use that method of the cardboard to get the dimensions then put this into a cad package also there is a quick shift method too which makes shifting faster which i could employ as seen on this web site...

http://www.hill-engineering.co.uk/ferrari-slickshiftgate.htm

Hey jonti where are you from ?? i live in acton trussell near the big argos depot on J13 M6 i used to work there..

[Edited on 7/7/03 by RichyMkIndy]


jonti - 7/7/03 at 06:00 PM

Hey jonti where are you from ?? i live in acton trussell near the big argos depot on J13 M6 i used to work there..




Bit further up mate .North of Stoke out towards Leek M6 J15


James - 15/7/03 at 08:52 AM

quote:
Originally posted by jonti

Jasper , your motor dont 'arf look nice !!!

[Edited on 7/7/03 by jonti]


You should feel the neck-snapping acceleration of it!

James


Browser - 2/8/03 at 07:56 AM

I looked at this Ferrari-style gearshift gate thingy a while back and concluded it isn't worth the hassle. Plus, if you have a quickshift there isn't really enough cross-gate travel to allow for a decent thickness of metal for that gates' 'fingers'. They do look nice but who looks at their gearstick whilst driving? The final thing for me was thinking of how much cack & spare change is going to drop into the holes and possibly jam up the stick?