I just really wanted to let you guys know, hopefully this can be archived. My short shifter nearly killed me. Why? They are a terrible design, i purchased mine on eBay, Trust me, i woulda kept my stock one but the previous owner cut it to where it was 2 inches long!

After awhile of owning my short shifter (roughly 3 months) it broke on me once and sent my engine spinning passed 10k, Luckily the motor was fine but it caused my cam gear to slip.

It was documented in this thread
http://www.g2ic.com/forums/sho...74610

I was using the same short shifter because i had rethreaded it where it broke off and reused it.

Now recently (october 25th) I nearly lost my life from misshifting from 3rd gear back into second. Maybe it was all my fault, but i believe the shifter had a role into it.

It was documented here
http://www.g2ic.com/forums/sho...76095

A perfect example would be what JH4DB536 Said.

"I want to bring this fact to the attention to my fellow club members:

Thong here was driving with a 'mended' broken short shifter. This is what happens when you cut corners or take shortcuts in futile attempts to save a couple cents. I believe that "POS short shifter" with it's sloppy throw, and imprecise shifting gates is partially responsible for this mishap (misshift was the leading mechanical cause of this accident). Now you should think twice before ordering some piece of crap off ebay. It's like this; would you go cheap on your brakes or seatbelts? Hell nah this is important stuff whether u realize it or not. Your life, your car, and the lives of other people out there are at stake. I wont do any of this racing bashing now cuz it would be uncalled for at this point."

I believe misshifting could cause a loss of control, do to the fact that it can lock up ur tires if put into the wrong gear, such in my case.

In this thread i am trying to prevent my fellow racers/mechanics- whoever u call yourselves, from going through the same pain i'm going through, and more importantly saving your lives and the lives of others....

 

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Someone should kill me......... before flames shall come... Yes i was racing... But some way it wasnt related... BUt hey, i am who i am.... So dont deny the fact u guys never been in a street race yourselves...</TD></TR></TABLE>

I stopped reading there oddly enough, that was the first line.

 

Well it wasnt because of street racing... Just because of driver error.

 

sorry to hear what happen. Sometimes we learn lessons the hard way, glad you're still ok

 

Thanks, trying to spread the word so u guys dont have to go through what i did..

 

Um if your shifter broke, than I'm 99% sure that it was aluminum. And aluminum shifters are junk. I'll admit I didn't read your whole post, mainly cuz I didn't like the title

But all those ebay specials are aluminum shifters, a steel one most likely wouldn't have broken. I bought one from a place that I'll never go to because my Momo **** wouldn't tighten up on the shifter. Every time I tried to tighten it, it would just drill holes into the shaft. Which would weaken the shifter and cause it break. Thats one of my next upgrades tho, is to get rid of the POS aluminum shifter for a steel one, like a skunk2 or somethin. Then I wouldn't have to worry bout it breaking and I can actually use my Momo shift **** I bought 4 months ago...

 

ok so you say it wasn't because of street racing, but driver error...maybe it's because you were redlining 3rd and misshifted that your **** broke off. Maybe if you weren't in such a frenzy to get away your shifter might still be intact, as well as your car.

 

There were just sooo many things that could have saved my car and a lot of heart ache... But what has happened happend... I'm beginnin to learn the true meaning of "Learn from your mistakes"

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 0nL1ne &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what do you expect from using

1. a POS shifter from ebay
B. a POS shifter from ebay RETHREADED after it broke once
III. not taking the time and minimal amount of money to do it correct
four. not knowing how to shift correctly

in my opinion all this could of been prevented by YOU in the first place.. so dont blame the short shifter in general or street racing for your stupidity.
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Agreed.

btw, nice numbering...1, B, III, four?!

 

I have been using the same aluminum C's shifter since 1995 so the comment about aluminum shifter is straight up WRONG!!

I'm glad you made it out alive but you should expect cheap quality from a cheap product! Cheap price doesn't always mean cheap quality but in your case you got what you paid for!


Modified by Dee at 9:35 AM 10/27/2003

 

street racing is teh awesome.

I think I am going to go shortcut and put broken parts on my car, mismatched tires, and then go race!

you said you probably deserved to die, well maybe not, but you did get what you paid for.

take this as a hint that street racing is bad enough, and then you throw cheap parts into the mix, that makes it worse.

you are commander of the not so smart people.

I am very glad you live far away from me, so my life is not in danger.

 

i bought my shorty off of ebay also i had it for three months and the darn thing snaped in half, and the top of the shifter got suck in my **** . i suggest not to buy a shorty from ebay unless its a brand name.

 

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you are commander of the not so smart people.
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All your short shift belong to us!

 

http://www.g2ic.com/forums/sho...76095
LOL..Everything on your car is broken..I see why you shifter broke. Might as well SUE EBAY!!..hahah.. blame the racing pedals too. Say you forgot to engage the clutch or hit the brakes.

Thanks for being concerned about the lives of members on this board, but I hope you dont race with your child in the backseat, cuz thats STUPID

 

I think this is driver error, with maybe a small percentage of shitty ebay short shifter error. I haven't had any problems with my skunk2 in the past year... in fact, I am very happy with it... It should also be noted that I haven't mis-shifted to date.

 

is the dc sport short shifter prone to breaking?? it came with my car and it's really easy to shift to gears that's all i know.

 

Lets put it this way, not every shifter is going to break. I'm sure its only a small percentage that do anyway. But the ones that do break are more than likely the aluminum ones. They heat up, they get stressed, my example with the momo screws from my shift **** drilling into the shaft weakens it.

The place I go to for my car stuff now doesn't even carry aluminum shifters for that reason. The place that I bought my POS shifter never heard of any of the problems I just described because he's a greedy bastard who doesn't want to acknowledge my problem and fix it.

 

A shifter will not cause your motor to go high up to 10k, that is either simply a misshift and is all driver error.

 

yeap cheap shortshifters break like a twig cause I shift hard.
so I swaped to skunk2
no problems since then..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by VNTEC &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I just really wanted to let you guys know, hopefully this can be archived. My short shifter nearly killed me. Why? They are a terrible design, i purchased mine on eBay, Trust me, i woulda kept my stock one but the previous owner cut it to where it was 2 inches long!

After awhile of owning my short shifter (roughly 3 months) it broke on me once and sent my engine spinning passed 10k, Luckily the motor was fine but it caused my cam gear to slip.

It was documented in this thread
http://www.g2ic.com/forums/sho...74610

I was using the same short shifter because i had rethreaded it where it broke off and reused it.

Now recently (october 25th) I nearly lost my life from misshifting from 3rd gear back into second. Maybe it was all my fault, but i believe the shifter had a role into it.

It was documented here
http://www.g2ic.com/forums/sho...76095

A perfect example would be what JH4DB536 Said.

"I want to bring this fact to the attention to my fellow club members:

Thong here was driving with a 'mended' broken short shifter. This is what happens when you cut corners or take shortcuts in futile attempts to save a couple cents. I believe that "POS short shifter" with it's sloppy throw, and imprecise shifting gates is partially responsible for this mishap (misshift was the leading mechanical cause of this accident). Now you should think twice before ordering some piece of crap off ebay. It's like this; would you go cheap on your brakes or seatbelts? Hell nah this is important stuff whether u realize it or not. Your life, your car, and the lives of other people out there are at stake. I wont do any of this racing bashing now cuz it would be uncalled for at this point."

I believe misshifting could cause a loss of control, do to the fact that it can lock up ur tires if put into the wrong gear, such in my case.

In this thread i am trying to prevent my fellow racers/mechanics- whoever u call yourselves, from going through the same pain i'm going through, and more importantly saving your lives and the lives of others.... </TD></TR></TABLE>

Now that I actually read this post, I realize I was right and I shouldn't have. No offense but your a moron.

 

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I stopped reading there oddly enough, that was the first line.</TD></TR></TABLE>

And this guy wants to file an insurance claim

 

How hard do you guys shift?!?

 

Short shifters don't kill people, stupid people kill people... I'm so sick of people blaming everyone and their mother for their own actions, people like you are the cause of the excessive litigation in our nation

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tb_pimpjuice &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

Now that I actually read this post, I realize I was right and I shouldn't have. No offense but your a moron. </TD></TR></TABLE>

ill second that notion....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 0nL1ne &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what do you expect from using

1. a POS shifter from ebay
B. a POS shifter from ebay RETHREADED after it broke once
III. not taking the time and minimal amount of money to do it correct
four. not knowing how to shift correctly

in my opinion all this could of been prevented by YOU in the first place.. so dont blame the short shifter in general or street racing for your stupidity. </TD></TR></TABLE>
Exactly! As soon as i read "ebay shifter" i thought uh oh. Then the fact that you continued to use it AFTER it snapped made me realize this was going nowhere except to continue showing your own bad choices, sorry to break it to you.