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[Neeek]

It absolutely is! They all use the same sort of set-up, from the 80s (possibly 70s?) all the way through to very recently. On the other hand, why design so many fucking different shifters in the first...

[Neeek]

I love it when the courier pulls into my driveway. Especially if he's got a box for me with FCP Euro tape on it!

Here's a new E39 M5 shifter, next to the Z3 2.8 one.


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[Neeek]

OK, lots of musings about knobs and shafts...

I've got the factory shifter back in now and it works as well as it possibly can. Only now I'm back to where I was - I still want something around...

[Neeek]

LOL - and like a sad sack, I remember seeing your car from time to time! There's a bloke who works down in one of the sheds near Sunshine station with a red M5 in pieces in there. He stopped once to have...

[Neeek]

Yeah, not a thing for BMW shifters. They have a push on knob, so the only way to do it would be to chop the top off the Z3 shifter I have and then weld a piece of round in between the top and the bottom...

[Neeek]

Having driven the car for the last 4 days, I can now state that having a short shifter is NOT a good thing. The positive engagement is really nice, the shorter throw and knob height is absolutely fucking...