Paddle Shifting (for MT)

[Tamago]

btw i'll be doing paddle shifts on the steering wheel as well.. i want to put some serious thought into the design (thinking something like the IS-F) and this stock shifter will get me going in the right direction

[mikenacarato]

ah so were going sequential shifter style first. haha sweet

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by mikenacarato

ah so were going sequential shifter style first. haha sweet

yup, i want the paddle shifter setup to be perfect.. still planning the billet piece that'll have to be made to make it work.. when it's over you'll have both options

[id3379]

woot, good progress so far, keep it up

[whooppee777]

this is so awesome and confusing all at once. I LOVE IT!

[Tamago]

here's the work i've done to my old stock shift cage to turn it from H pattern to fore/aft only..

[Tamago]

here's the shifter with the limit switches installed.. due to UPS taking their sweet ass time this project will not be done till after thanksgiving :(

[kou]

very impresive,keep up the good work.

[Stoln]

If you can master this setup than work on an auto setup, i'd be down with that. Paddle shifting like the Fit Sport on the Yaris would be cool and the RS Yaris should have had it. I am patiently waiting for this

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by Stoln

If you can master this setup than work on an auto setup, i'd be down with that. Paddle shifting like the Fit Sport on the Yaris would be cool and the RS Yaris should have had it. I am patiently waiting for this

i'm just not sure why you'd want to shift an auto ?

[id3379]

nice work so far man. Coming along good.

[Gideon]

Subscribed! This looks amazing! Are you going to add in some sort of gear display that shows what your current gear is?

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by Gideon

Subscribed! This looks amazing! Are you going to add in some sort of gear display that shows what your current gear is?

i will have to get a bigger (more outputs) PLC to do that unfortunately.. that or a ton of relays.. i'm definitely trying to figure out how to do it inexpensively :D

[WolfWings]

Originally Posted by Tamago

that website makes me sad..

first, it's only for transmissions with the stick ON the trans (RWD setups)

second all they show you is pretty pictures of the paddles.

Wrong on both counts actually. :-)

Their Street Manual All Products page shows good images of the actual modules that bolt in place of the stock shifter assembly to control the existing cable-drive stuff.

*ALL* their systems are designed to work with cable-driven transmissions actually.

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by WolfWings

Wrong on both counts actually. :-)

Their Street Manual All Products page shows good images of the actual modules that bolt in place of the stock shifter assembly to control the existing cable-drive stuff.

*ALL* their systems are designed to work with cable-driven transmissions actually.

Originally Posted by mastershift

The MasterShift™ Manual Shifter supports Tremec TKO, Tremec T-56, Tremec TR-3650, RBT-5 (formally the ZF), and RBT-6. Coming soon! Hardware for the C5/C6/Z06!

which of these is a cable shift manual transmission?

either way, the intent of my setup is to do away with cables ;)

[Tamago]

picked up my enclosure from the wonderful folks at City Electric today..

here's the basic layout of the parts. i gotta pick up a piece of DIN rail, hope i can find a manifold for the valves, and will most likely mount the power supply (lower left, converts 12V into 24V) on a 90degree angle.. contemplating a cooling fan but not sure if i'll be generating that much heat

[WolfWings]

Originally Posted by Tamago

which of these is a cable shift manual transmission?

either way, the intent of my setup is to do away with cables ;)

They're specifying that they support some of the transmissions that a lot of 'universal sequential shifter kits' don't, because the stock transmission is a rod-linked assembly or true top-mount shifter. Those are the transmissions that they specifically have adapter modules designed and tested for to link to their cable-shifter two-servos-in-a-box brain, and pre-programmed settings for said brain-in-a-box. And said vehicles are expensive enough to justify a $1900-$2400 paddle-shifter kit. :-)

The MasterShift kit comes with a programming cable and software CD for a reason: It's for setting the distances the box actually has to shift the cable-linkages for the gate-selector and syncro-selector inputs, and specifying paths and routes for the shifting to follow.

And any cable linkage can be replaced with a hydraulic linkage, witness modern brakes versus the old cable-powered brakes used as recently at the 80's. Hell, many vehicles with in-board brakes (brakes mounted beside the differential, bolted to the chassis instead of part of the wheel assembly, Jaguar's and Hummer-1's mostly) can have hard brake line going all the way to the brake calipers.

They'd use hydraulics more places, but it's a lot more expensive to design and prone to maintenance headaches than a length of steel rope inside a plastic sheath, which is almost all a transmission-cable is since it doesn't have to deal with large forces like brakes do/did.

Didn't mean to come off as knockin' on the work you're doing, it's looking awesome so far. :-)

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by WolfWings

Didn't mean to come off as knockin' on the work you're doing, it's looking awesome so far. :-)

yeah i'd only poked around their site slightly til now. they do seem to cover their bases but like i said my real issue is the actual cables being in the way of the downpipe so doing away with them and replacing with DOT airbrake line i can mount well away from the heat is the idea here..

i'm jealous of their paddle controls :(