Thread: Twmperformance.com shifters

Me too?

I'm curious too. Can't seem to find any of your negative posts. Which forums were they on?

well it's been 5 years lol, looks like they have changed and started making real shifters!

Dummy.

TWM or Kartboy are the only preferred shifters in the Scooby community as well.

I'm about to pick up a lightly used TWM short throw for $65, about $100 less than if buying new for the scoob. happydance!

yeah so is BC coilover, still don't mean it's not crap.

Pacesetter is too "light"? What does that mean? I have a b&m in my se-r and they feel about the same minus my ps's shorter adjusted shift then the b&m

the weight of the shifter is light and cause it to feel notch y. my B&M feels a ton more solid than the pacesetters.

also, this is just my opinion, I hate shifter that's lower than stock. I perfer short "TROW" shifters where it's the stock height. and yes I know TWM makes an extender but that's another $40 so $200 of a shifter? screw that.

I never understood the complaint of a shifter being too "notchy"? Am I not understanding that description properly? All the best shifting transmissions, universally praised by any driver worth listening to, seems to have one thing in common from what I've experienced; they are "notchy" as fuck. You know, like a fucking bolt-action rifle. Unbelievably "notchy". No?

When I hear the word "notchy" it makes me think the shifter has very specific paths it wants to follow, and very specific places it wants to move to engage a gear. And it forces you to follow those paths. It is the opposite of a "wobbly" shifter, or one where you can pretty much shove it anywhere and it will give you a gear.

Can someone explain this to me? WTF is a "notchy" shifter?


Also, shifter being too light? Not something you'd ever hear me complain about. How could it be too light? Weighted shift knobs are also WTF in my eyes... You want it to be weighted? Why???

A shift is three distinct motions in my book.
1) Disengage previous gear dog teeth and syncrho and enter neutral.
2) Find next desired gear's synchro location and wait a beat.
3) Move the lever home, engaging the dog teeth of the intended gear.

People with weighted shift knobs (and levers?!) all seem to me like people who treat a gear change as a single event. And maybe only care about that 1-2 shift?

I might have said it wrong. I think a better word to describe it would be responsive. most aftermarket shifter don't feel responsive to me, they seem to require more effort to do what the stock does. I don' like using an weighted aftermarket knob to compensate what the shifter lacks in the first place.

does that makes sense?

Keo, I wasn't really complaining about you or what you said. I've been trying to figure this out for years. I'm convinced no one knows what it means, and no one uses it to describe the same thing. I'm so curious, I'll take my posts to a new thread.

I'm with you on wanting stock height. That was one of the selling points of the Pacesetter, that it was only about 1.25" shorter than stock (depending on adjustment) which was much taller than anything else being offered.

Edit: Thread made: http://www.sr20-forum.com/offtopic/54291-what-does-notchy-shifter-mean-you.html#post728293

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