Anybody Experiment With Gated Shifters?


Shark01

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Jul 22, 2012
597
Houston Texas
Anyway, drove a car with a gated shifter for the first time recently ('08 Gallardo). Didn't care for the car (was gutless at 5,000 rpm, like the normal f430), but loved the clack-clack sound and feel of the shifter. And it looked the business, shiny billet instead of the rubber (?) sheaths on other cars.

I think it would be a cool mod if it could be done to a GT.
 

Sinovac

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Jul 18, 2006
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Largo, Florida
I agree. I have always thought our cars should have come with gated shifters. Fits perfectly with the character of the car. Probably not too difficult to accomplish once you fabricate a new center console.
 

MTV8

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Jul 24, 2010
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I thought about making one using the exoticare shifter bezel as a base for the gate.
 

Black GT

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Anyway, drove a car with a gated shifter for the first time recently ('08 Gallardo). Didn't care for the car (was gutless at 5,000 rpm, like the normal f430), but loved the clack-clack sound and feel of the shifter. And it looked the business, shiny billet instead of the rubber (?) sheaths on other cars.

I think it would be a cool mod if it could be done to a GT.

I have 2 gated shifter cars. A Lamborghini Murci, and a twin turbo Gallardo. Love it, and love the clank and feel. It's funny when I raced a 800hp GTR with my GTT. I am rowing through the gated shifter old school, while the GTR driver is using paddles. As I blast past;).
 

Exoticare

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Jul 18, 2006
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We tried it! we couldn't get it to work, the angle of the shifter shaft was at the wrong angle in every gear. We originally wanted to make a gate instead of a boot. So we came up with the current bezel mod.
 

twobjshelbys

GT Owner
Jul 26, 2010
6,166
Las Vegas, NV
We tried it! we couldn't get it to work, the angle of the shifter shaft was at the wrong angle in every gear. We originally wanted to make a gate instead of a boot. So we came up with the current bezel mod.

Would/did it work with the short throw shifter? I can see the pivot point on the normal shifter doing that but maybe the short throw would be better.
 

Ed Sims

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Did the original GT40s come with gated shifters?

Ed
 

Sinovac

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Did the original GT40s come with gated shifters?

Ed

Not to my knowledge
 

RALPHIE

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Mar 1, 2007
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Did the original GT40s come with gated shifters?

Ed

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twobjshelbys

GT Owner
Jul 26, 2010
6,166
Las Vegas, NV
Seeing a reply recently where a clutch failure was most likely due to an inexperienced driver starting off in third it reminded me that if there had been a gated shifter that wouldn't be possible...

So I did a search and this old topic came up...

I still wonder why noone ever did a gate overlay to replace the rubber b**b. It would seem to have been a relatively simple mod to generate.
 

Tomcat

GT Owner
I had a beautiful gated shifter in my Pantera...loved it (and the sounds it made).
 

Shark01

GT Owner
Jul 22, 2012
597
Houston Texas
LOL……a zombie thread I don’t even remember starting. Less than a year later, I bought my gated manual Lamborghini Diablo Roadster, then my FGT 6 years later.

Now having owned both for awhile, I don’t want a gated shifter FGT. It is great in the Diablo because it works better as a cruiser than the FGT. Gated shifters, while having superior feel and sound do slow down shifts.
 
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jaxgt

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Newly acquired V10 R8 with a gated shifter is really sweet. Just getting to know it
 
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I have always thought our cars should have come with gated shifters.

Almost…….
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PeteK

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Was that in the prototype?
 

2112

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Yes

 

Sinovac

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Gated shifters are a thing of beauty.
 

drilling

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Sep 13, 2018
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I am scared of how much dust will get into the gated shifter.
 

drilling

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Sep 13, 2018
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Almost…….
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This looks cool