Cable Shifter, why are these so hard to find? Options

[TimMartin]

I'm interested in cable shift kits, which the way i figure it don't have to be Porsche specific. I'm thinking about fabricating the parts necessary to make a tailshift tranmission run with a race-style cable shifter.

The problem is all i can find are shifters for automatics. I'm guessing web research isn't going to cut it. Things this specific are often hard to find.

With that said, I was going to do this for just the standard 901, but perhaps such solutions don't exist unless you're running a 915?

[TimMartin]

Jon... Use the Boxtser shifter and cables. I HATE Erics shifter setup. It looks like HELL. Let me know if you need a tailshifter. I have a few I can give you.


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Brad, I'd love to try the boxster/tailshift combo. The two places that come to mind for used boxster shifters would be parts heaven and silver star. Any recommendations?

I bet someone down here in Sunnyvale or San Jose has a tail shifter in their garage we can use to design and test it on...

yeah, Eric's setup looks like it weights about 20lbs. I could machine some parts out of aluminum and probably make the whole thing about a pound, two if i do a crappy job. If you were to make something for mass production, we could easily design it from cold formed sheet steel. You wouldn't need to make many of them to make it worth while to go to a shop in the area and them to crank out a batch.

It would be interesting to try if nothing else. Getting the interior parts to be clean and acceptable.

.tim