Updating side shift linkage - with front shifter and rod from a tail shift car Options

[jjs3rd914]

I posted recently the following thread on the issue of getting into first gear with a freshly rebuilt side shift tranny.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...mp;hl=jjs3rd914

After some driving time has passed I am still having the issue. So we started to look at some major upgrade that other have done and vendor offered kits.

Here is a great thread by Montreal914

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=329708

where he seems to in part use the idea from Tangerine racing's kit

http://www.tangerineracing.com/shiftlinkage.htm

I have a spare shift console and side shift linkage and will attempt the same.

The car is a 72 with a side shift conversion so we still have a bunch of tail shift parts.

Hence the question??

Has anyone done what Montreal914 did or installed the Tangerine kit. I see that two steering u-joint coupling are needed, one coming out of the firewall and one just before the shift console. But it seems like people retain the side shift front shifting rod that has the "wobbly" motion coming out of the firewall. I like Monreal914 have tossed the factory bushing and installed a spherical bearing.

Since two u-joint are used subsequently, it seems the Porsche design with the wobbly motion is not longer necessary. So has anyone used the (at least up front part) shifter and front rod from the tail shift linkage. This part seems to use a more precise motion of, in and out of the firewall with rotation, BUT no wobble left and right. as in the side shit version.


One could attach the firewall u-joint to the shaft coming out of the firewall.

Seems to us this should improve the shifting.

Yes it is difficult to explain, but it seems Porsche used the wobbly motion maybe for cost saving as only one shift coupling was used in the side shift version, saving production costs.

Anyone done this?? Comments?? Are we full of it thinking crazy??

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