[s-cars] speaking of R8s

[pkrasusky at ups.com]

RE:  gated shifters...

Funny, Darin and I were trading Testicleroaster stories (good one
Darin!) the other day and he referenced the gated shifting in the '86 he
tried was akin to churning frozen butter.  I noted it was like stirring
an iron rebar around in a bucket of rocks heh heh heh.

All I could think about during the R8 'Ring vid was oh my tire wear
batman!  Guy's sawing away in anger and you can nearly feel the scrub!
Assuredly that was the furthest from that guys mind.  I dig tho how you
can see his expressions in the mirror - at times it does seem he's
particularly angry...

-Paul not particularly gated K.



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Rossato [mailto:bob.rossato_af at cox.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:07 AM
To: Steve Powers; calvinlc at earthlink.net
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com; Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)
Subject: Re: [s-cars] speaking of R8s

Yeah, I was thinking the same.  It may very well be the gated shifter,
but it's just not the sound I would have expected from a gated shifter.
The noise sure sounds kind of like a spring loaded mechanism, and very
consistent (i.e. I would expect a different sound between gears in plane
vs. out of plane with the gated shifter).  And there seems to be a
slight delay in the engine reaction with every shift.  Not as direct as
I would expect a manual to be.  Could be my imagination.

Not a biggie.


---- Steve Powers <sbpowers at gmail.com> wrote: 
> it's probably the manual. one of the recent road tests complained
> about the noise the gate makes when you shift. they thought the gate
> looked cool but was just noisy.
> 
> that would explain both the noise and lack of paddles.
> 
> sp
> 
> On 6/27/07, calvinlc at earthlink.net <calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Yeah, very metallic sound when shifting though for a tip (if it's
anything
> > like the one that's in my wife's A6).
> > --Calvin