Tailshift to Side shift conversion - My experience., I accidentally posted this in the classifieds.. trying to move it to Garage... Options

[mikedsilva]

sorry for starting this in the classifieds section.. I must have been on drugs at the time...


A few months I bought my 914... its a 70 model, fitted with a 2.0litre motor.. but still with its original tailshifter.
Whilst I was able to find most of the gears, most of the time, I felt I wanted to convert.

There are some very useful threads on here and pelican but none with all the bits I wanted in the 1 place. This isn't a how to, but more wanted to share some of my findings.
Thanks to a couple of newly found 914 friendships at home, I decided to have a crack.

Rather than buy a complete side shifting transmission, I found that Brad Mayeur sold a "kit" of parts needed to do the conversion. Brad sold me everything needed.. and I mean EVERYTHING.
Shift lever and console, all the shift rods, coupler, side shift console, new engine mounts, engine cross bar, etc etc. He even included a new oil seal for the drive shaft in the box, and new exhaust gaskets.

Here are some pics of the bits I received...
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[mikedsilva]

It's a really finicky process, since you want a straight shot between all the shift rods, so the shift COMB from the side console, can go back and forth perfectly and also to have enough throw, to select each gear position forwards and backwards.

In addition to this, the brass shift fork needs to be aligned so that the dog teeth for either gear on either side of the syncro band, do not overlap the syncro band...

Thank goodness for Dr Evils dvd to explain it a lot better...