My home made shifter [W.I.P]

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I've decided to build my own sequential shifter since my old one is starting to lose its spring. This also means I can have the shifter on the 'british side' of the wheel. So far there's a couple of progress photos of the shifter, I only started today (15-09-2005). So there's not muhc of it as im typing this. But i'm also posting design pics so yo ucan expect to see a few of those still to come.

Design Pictures:


Construction Photos:


Ill keep you posted, feel free to make suggestions and tell me what you think so far, not that there's much yet. And does anyone know of any basic CAD programs I can download for free?
 
Nice pics there vtec, very cool...

I can't wait to see the finished product either...

I'm going to do the idea you gave me with the controller, I'll post a thread once I get started.
 
cool, lookin forward to it already. Have a look at nurbrurgring's hack in the cheap cockpit thread ot get an idea of how to do it. Not sure what page :-S
 
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cool, lookin forward to it already. Have a look at nurbrurgring's hack in the cheap cockpit thread ot get an idea of how to do it. Not sure what page :-S
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Page 38 if I'm not mistaken... ! ;)
 
cool, i added a little to the shifter today, In the pic i have long metal nails holding it together but im looking for sme long thin bolts to put through there when it all comes together. Ill upload a pic for ya.
 
Very nice dude. Im glad to see you followed what you said you were going to do. You know it looks good like that, if you dont mind id like to try that idea, the wood is inexpensive and it looks fairly easy. What are you going to usse for th micro processors, if you could collaberate more on that topic id be able to get a good sense of it. Dude yuo could like aptent that and sell it like frex.

BTW, What are YOU using that program looks great. How much does it cost, any info would help.
 
Im using paint to design all the 2D stuff lol. And then I used the 3D shape tools in microsoft word to make the 3d pic lol!!

I'm simply re-wiring my current shifter to 2 new micro switches which you can see in the design pictures, it's pretty simpl really. I might try and make a very basic illustration in paint when I get home just to clarify anything that you still dont get.
I dont mind you following my design, since it's not really my design, if you check out the cockpit building section of www.rscnet.org then you'll see that a lot of people use the same design as this. I'm just following their ideas and changing anything that I think may make it better.

Thanks for your interest.
 
:lol: That's nice and all but are you sure you wanna do it in wood? What if you get into a situation where you have to use your NOs... and then shift really hard so you don't lose to that model T and break off the shifter?? :dopey:

No... seriously though, nice design, I saw one other one that was in metal or something but I don't think it would survive a hard shift either. :lol:
 
cool,
Once I finish the shifter I need to work out how far is the perfect distance to push/pull the shifter so I can make something ot stop it at that distance. Ive decided ot use a router to cut out a kind of oval shape in a piece of wood which will go over the top of the shifter, but the actualy shifter stick will go through. Kinda hard ot explain lol, here's what i mean:

The edges of the oval shaped hole will stop the shifter stick at the maximum distance that it can move forward/backwards. So it should be safe for some hard shifting. I may also line the hole with some thick cable casing which I will cut down the center with a craft knife so it can slot on round the edge of the hole.

I hope some of this has made some sense, im dead tired lol.
 
sweet dude... the only thing i think that may happen is that if you, roll the shifter forward off your thumb sort of like snapping it.... making it recoil off the front spring it may bounce back and forth or at like back enough to tap rear micro switch.

i can't really explain it but from this shot you can see that it could bounce back and forth untill it has no more energy (unless you slot it so it has some drag to stop it).

[image]http://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shifterdesign1lt.png[/image]
 
cool design, I though of something similar, but then just bought a 50 dollar MC2 and set it backwards to use it's stick shift as a shifter in a more realistic position. Plus you can then map the e-brake to shift + on your DFP and you'd be amazed how much that helps your drifting and adds to the realism. As an added bonus the MC2 gas pedal can be mapped to the clutch in Enthusia. Still trying to figure out how to get TOCA 2 to recognize both wheels simultaneously though.
 

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