[s-cars] to short shift or not to short shift

[Harold McComas]

Funny, I heard the same thing in regards to VW trannies. So I will tell you 
my experience with my now gone '85 VW GTI. I bought it in '87 with 45,000 
miles, the very first mod I did that summer was install an Autotech short 
shift kit and set it at a 50% reduction. I have since sold the car just this 
last spring with 280,000 miles on her, so just when are the synchros 
supposed to wear out?
;-)

I think improper shifting would lead to the synchros wearing out, the short 
shift kit just encourages more slamming through the gears. On my GTI I used 
to pause between gears, maybe 1/2 sec, so instead of a 1 to 2 shift it was 
more like a 1 to neutral to 2 shift, etc. Not really sure if it helped, but 
seemed to.

Harold M
Manchester, NH

> From: forrest bradshaw <sola4est at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [s-cars] to short shift or not to short shift
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> I trust my mechanic and I trust the judgement of this group, so here is my 
> question:
> been thinking about getting and installing a the short shift kit from 
> EuroPrice, it sounds pretty rad. But my mechanic strongly insists that I 
> do not install a SS kit on my car as it will prematurely wear out the 
> syncros in trans, says hes seen 11 cars with SS kits and they all had bad 
> transmissions.  Alex at Europrice says its all good, I'm just wondering 
> what the list opinion is on this subject and from anyone with short 
> shifter experience in any car and if there have been any problems.
> thinking caps on
> thanks
>
> Forrest