Sunday, 15 June 2014

VWR Quickshift Gearchange

This is the simple modification, that will bring you another level of changing the gears. It may shorten the travel of the gear-lever by around 25% for quicker and more accurate changes.

VWR Short Shifter. The box.
The short shifter fits on top of the gearbox, replacing the stock gear selection mechanism.
It looks very similar to the stock shifter. The difference is, that now you may adjust the gear-level travel from 0% to 25% shorter than the stock shifter. This is "shift-travel" alignment is achieved by adjusting the position of bolt #3 in the picture below.

Package content

You may shorten it travel up to 25% or leave it as is in the stock. The point is, that even if you leave it "as is" before it'll give you more accurate gear change, probably because it comes with the metal sideshift plate #2 in the contrast with the stock sideshift, which comes with the shitty-plastic plate (Hey! SEAT, WTF?) as you may see in the picture below:
Stock gearbox shifter
I like this small, but very nice upgrade. Changing the gear has become more clear and fun then before.
More info about this quick-shifter: Volkswagen Racing website.

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