B&M's new Autoshifter with Pictures..
GTR Member
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Can you just bang this up and down or will you have to push to the stops like the stock only without holding the button? If you do have to push it up and down to stops will the throw distance be shorter?
I'm really supprised at the sour reception, the prototype thread was frothing over with excitement and anticipation. So what if it doesn't look fancy, I think most of the people interested wanted it for
I'm really supprised at the sour reception, the prototype thread was frothing over with excitement and anticipation. So what if it doesn't look fancy, I think most of the people interested wanted it for
function not asthetics.
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the pic is the flyer photo is BAD!.. I didn't want it in there but it was too late to make any changes.The unit will not sit that close while the unit is in park!Look at the photo: even the indicator area is a greenish color. Obviously not the finished version I am showing, so please take that with a "grain of salt". I can keep the B&M engraved logo or ditch it.. it doesn't matter to me, but most of you said you didn't want it there...Hint: ALSO part of the prototype versions!
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Can you just bang this up and down or will you have to push to the stops like the stock only without holding the button? If you do have to push it up and down to stops will the throw distance be shorter?
I'm really supprised at the sour reception, the prototype thread was frothing over with excitement and anticipation. So what if it doesn't look fancy, I think most of the people interested wanted it for function not asthetics.
I'm really supprised at the sour reception, the prototype thread was frothing over with excitement and anticipation. So what if it doesn't look fancy, I think most of the people interested wanted it for function not asthetics.
BANG it up and down through the gears if you want!.that is what makes our quicksilver mechanism so popular with the auto crowds and the reason we chose to utilize it for this car!
I like it and don't think the B&M logo looks bad either.
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Chris, I have a suggestion, I live up here in the Stockton/Modesto area, send me one of the proto-types with both the cueball and T-handle, I will install it in my car as the test mule, get some great shots with my Kodak digital camera and post them up, then all the guys who drive the manuals can **** and moan all they want and the auto guys can either order one or just live with the current pos in the car, I am willing to do this to help out B&M to promote this product, I will say that as with all the other mods I've done with my car, it may end up with some personal "tweaking". a chromed bezel with the B&M logo will look better in my IUP-less interior and also match the MGW hardware planned for the area around the shifter. 
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Well, I guess I can look at it this way, Dan and I will be at the front of the line now 
You know Chris, once you ship a few and people post good pictures of it, there'll be some converts.
Here's a question, I know there will be a channel for running wires up the shaft if one were to want to add another button on say a T-Handle. I suppose you could actually swap the OD button with one in the handle. So could there be an OD delete option? And by that I mean not have OD engraved in the bezel? I have another use in mind for where the OD button is
You know Chris, once you ship a few and people post good pictures of it, there'll be some converts.
Here's a question, I know there will be a channel for running wires up the shaft if one were to want to add another button on say a T-Handle. I suppose you could actually swap the OD button with one in the handle. So could there be an OD delete option? And by that I mean not have OD engraved in the bezel? I have another use in mind for where the OD button is
I say keep the B&M engraved logo! Any way you go I'm in for one.
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Chris, I have a suggestion, I live up here in the Stockton/Modesto area, send me one of the proto-types with both the cueball and T-handle, I will install it in my car as the test mule, get some great shots with my Kodak digital camera and post them up, then all the guys who drive the manuals can **** and moan all they want and the auto guys can either order one or just live with the current pos in the car, I am willing to do this to help out B&M to promote this product, I will say that as with all the other mods I've done with my car, it may end up with some personal "tweaking". a chromed bezel with the B&M logo will look better in my IUP-less interior and also match the MGW hardware planned for the area around the shifter.
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the pic that bwilder posted looks like it addresses the issue of the post being too tall becasue the design raises the top surface and the contour disguises some of the length.
I would imagine B&M could fabricate a cover plate like that without having to redesign the whole shifter, no?
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Now I would buy something like that! The pics I've seen here of the new one do nothing for me.
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If it looks like the unit in this picture then I'm in.
http://forums.bradbarnett.net/attach...6&d=1163002454
http://forums.bradbarnett.net/attach...6&d=1163002454
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I missed the early parts of the thread, but if the rod was beefed up to some sort of plate and the ball into a Hurst type "T" shifter, I think it would fly. Small changes in my mind, but may be bigger on the production side. These are cosmetic things, as long at it works as an auto shifter who cares.
Questions I have are :
1 what about the OD switch?
2 what about the shift lock?
I like the idea, just not the looks.
Questions I have are :
1 what about the OD switch?
2 what about the shift lock?
I like the idea, just not the looks.
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If it looks like the unit in this picture then I in.
http://forums.bradbarnett.net/attach...6&d=1163002454
http://forums.bradbarnett.net/attach...6&d=1163002454
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I missed the early parts of the thread, but if the rod was beefed up to some sort of plate and the ball into a Hurst type "T" shifter, I think it would fly. Small changes in my mind, but may be bigger on the production side. These are cosmetic things, as long at it works as an auto shifter who cares.
Questions I have are :
1 what about the OD switch?
2 what about the shift lock?
I like the idea, just not the looks.
Questions I have are :
1 what about the OD switch?
2 what about the shift lock?
I like the idea, just not the looks.
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Bullitt Member
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if I was so inclined to add a boot to the shifter, it wasnt hard to find one that could easily fit or be modified to fit, modding is about customizing and creativity anyway, check out this link.
oops link didnt work, hold on, heres the pict!
oops link didnt work, hold on, heres the pict!
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I'm not quite so sure that would work, the stick has to travel pretty far.