Originally Posted by
Worldrider
I've reached out to the guys at @ Sportshifters to see if they can engineer a reasonable yet beautiful compromise. I will update this thread if any good news results…
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This is the response they gave me when I notified them people are interesting in a gated option.
Tell me about it Peter, we get that request on a daily basis.
I dare to say we could make the best looking shift gate ever and we certainly will make one for some car model that allows one some day.
But for 99% it's not as easy as it seems in terms of just making a gated plate, on the RS4 or any B7 the shift throw is too little even when on stock to really create "gates"
Neither is the stick/shaft rigid enough to follow a narrow path without touching and scraping it all the time.
Everything is possible, but it would be quiete an operation for someone to get it fitted, probably end up rather above the $ 500,- mark then below and you'll end up with a cool looking shift gate, but shift behaviour far worse then standard with longer shift throws.
This is why we designed what we have, retaining the smallest possible shift boot to get a much cleaner look, improving shift behaviour and even reducing throw slightly because of the design of our shift knob.
And you keep to get the option of fitting a mechanical short throw shifter together with it aswell, that would be straight of the table with a shift gate.
So yeah it has a massive cool factor to it, but in terms of shift behaviour it is far from ideal.
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