Shift Lever at Rest Options

[Literati914]

I'm thinking that I don't have the vertical shift lever adjusted on the splined horizontal rod correctly.. (car is yet to be driven after restoration). It seems to take quite a lot of effort to get it all the way over to the 1/R side. It's been too long since I owned my last 914 to remember exactly how it's suppose to feel. But I do not remember it taking this much effort. So, when the lever is at rest, would you say it sits in the middle (of neutral's left to right plane) or that it favors either L or R ? I mean the middle seems logical I guess, and I probably just have it mal-adjusted.

I installed the shifter many months back always intending to revisit the subject before first start up - which is quickly approaching (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

[technicalninja]

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Did you put two or four springs in the flange?

... Two springs setup at the shifter and it was easy to get in 1st reverse. 4 spring is quite harder.

OK confession time - I knew nothing about a 4 spring mod. and also can not find it in a search. I do not remember any extra springs from when I installed it - but also wasn't really looking tbh. I will look and see though. Anyone got a thread link, that would be great. Hmm, maybe this particular shifter has been altered by a previous owner to include 4 springs.

But basically what I think you guys are saying (and kind of what I remember) is that the lever at rest is at the 2/3 area with little to no resistance to the R of it, and the spring(s) keeping it from 'resting' anywhere to the L of 2/3 .. I need to go back to my car and note exactly what the shifter is doing, as I started this thread on just a memory of it being off somehow. Thanks for the info guys!

You have it correct!
In most sportscar racing 1st is only used for launch and Porsche set the detent that way.
Makes it HARD to miss the 3-4 upshift and stick it back into first.

Setting it up this way ALSO made it hard to select reverse as well.

My 98 E36 M3 has a failure point internally in the transmission due to doing this detent BS differently.

That has a normal pattern and the "MONEY SHIFT" is sticking it back into 1st when you want third at WFO in second. The tranny is TOUGH! It goes back into first and destroys the engine at 15K!
You're LUCKY if it just chucks the T-chain and bends all the valves; normally it takes everything!

I fixed that shit in mine...