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So the other day I was over at Peter's and he had just finished installing a UUC Evo3 short shift kit with the DSSR in a breathtakingly beautiful low miler, so I hopped in and sat in the car going through the gears, and just came to the realization that i NEED one of these, as my car is sitting on 215,000km, and the shifter is long not what it used to be.
I have been looking at the UUC shifters for a long time now, and in my mind couldn't quite justify the expense of getting one, for how much of a difference will it make. Well, sitting in that silver car changed all that instantaneously...
I wasn't home for 5 minutes and the kit was ordered from Turner Motorsport. One of those sod the consequences purchases... So what if we have to live off brown bread and eggs for the next two months... Besides, a government loaf aint all that bad :fencelook:
Ordered the parts on Monday the 20th, and got here on Thursday the 30th, using USPS Express international mail. Along with the shifter came a aFe torque booster intake elbow, aFe pro 5r oiled panel filter, filter restore kit and a aFe intake duct. More about those later.
The 1st order of business, start stripping the trim to get to the old shifter, and getting the car up in the air. Not exactly to Health And Safety standards, but in a thick French accent "I wave my private parts in their general direction"
After this, the size of this task really hit home...
You do almost the same amount of stripping as you would pulling the gearbox...
Oh, and the instruction manual that comes with the SSK clearly says, "when removing shifter knob and boot pull up firmly, but take care not to hit the rearview mirror, or yourself in the face". Instructions, pah, for weaklings... Heed that one, I nearly lost a tooth...
Makes a man feel like a kid at Christmas time again!!
Trust them on this one... Lest you want to get to know your dentist better...
Cant quite clearly see it, but without too much effort you can take the shifter and pull it straight out of the nylon cup around the ball. Actually happened a couple of times in the week where I was busy waiting for the spares, so I could say to the missus, see, shifter is broken, we need the new one... Now just to convince her that the supercharger is an alternator, and the car won't run without it :cartel:
Quite the piece of work to get the rubber grommet out without destroying it. After all, it has been sitting there for 13 odd years.. If any of you are planning on doing this, get some silicone oil, and apply it liberally around the periphery of the seal, also on the inside where it goes over the shifter, as without doing that I would have probably still been out there cussing like a sailor trying to get that back in...
I seem to have her fairly well trained...
We cleaned all the parts as they came off, so the reassembly was a breeze. Oh, and note the decatted center section of exhaust.
Now I didn't really get any pictures of underneath the car, but like I said earlier, you do the same amount of stripping as you would do taking the 'box out... I left the propshaft connected, but dropped the center section of the exhaust, and lowered the intermediate pipes by about 500mm to get that $^$# heatshield out... Kept the intermediate pipes on a spare jackstand, and it seemed to work pretty well. You also need to remove the rear suspension brace, that triangular piece that mounts on the rear subframe and on the back sides of the body.
Boot full of spares, and the laptop with TIS to get torque specs. Now for those of you that don't know me, there is not a bolt that goes in with spanner pressure only, Ze Germans published those torque figures for a reason, so follow it. Invest in a decent torque wrench or two, you avoid stripping/breaking bolts, and the stuff doesn't go on Tarzan-tight.
All the goodies that came with the shifter... You have to see the machining quality on these parts, pics just do not do it justice.
New VS old...
Old ball looking like an old ball... A bit worse for wear there...
The shifter carrier, for want of a better term... Lekker dirty, after 215,000km's. It came out slightly easier than anticipated, about 7-8 cuss words per minute... The tricky part is that pesky clip that secures it to the top of the gearbox. Partly because you can't see the %*$ thing... But, alas, this was the 3rd time I had to go through that fantastic honeymoon like little endeavor...
The rear chassis brace there in the foreground...
Spares after lots of love from a loving, no REALLY loving wife
And a wee bit of Prepsol...
Getting ready to prep the shifter carrier... Once again the quality of these parts is nothing short of phenomenal. You get what you pay for in this case here. Love the attention to detail, everything you need to install it is included with the kit, note even a little tube of Loctite 242 thread locker. They have you install the round part into the shifter carrier with 6 2.5mm screws, secured with 242. On 2.5mm screws and 242, that is as good as welding those screws in there... So take your time, read amd re-read the good book of words, and do it properly the 1st time.
Nice and clean thanks to the wife's efforts
Installed, ready for the shifter
They even supply you with the grease required...
Delrin bushes on the front part in the quest for zero slop...
The DSSR. Double Shear Selector Rod. Jeez, sounds like NASA with all the fancy acronyms. But then again, it does produce the desired effect
Machined Beauty...
So the other day I was over at Peter's and he had just finished installing a UUC Evo3 short shift kit with the DSSR in a breathtakingly beautiful low miler, so I hopped in and sat in the car going through the gears, and just came to the realization that i NEED one of these, as my car is sitting on 215,000km, and the shifter is long not what it used to be.
I have been looking at the UUC shifters for a long time now, and in my mind couldn't quite justify the expense of getting one, for how much of a difference will it make. Well, sitting in that silver car changed all that instantaneously...
I wasn't home for 5 minutes and the kit was ordered from Turner Motorsport. One of those sod the consequences purchases... So what if we have to live off brown bread and eggs for the next two months... Besides, a government loaf aint all that bad :fencelook:
Ordered the parts on Monday the 20th, and got here on Thursday the 30th, using USPS Express international mail. Along with the shifter came a aFe torque booster intake elbow, aFe pro 5r oiled panel filter, filter restore kit and a aFe intake duct. More about those later.
The 1st order of business, start stripping the trim to get to the old shifter, and getting the car up in the air. Not exactly to Health And Safety standards, but in a thick French accent "I wave my private parts in their general direction"
After this, the size of this task really hit home...
You do almost the same amount of stripping as you would pulling the gearbox...
Oh, and the instruction manual that comes with the SSK clearly says, "when removing shifter knob and boot pull up firmly, but take care not to hit the rearview mirror, or yourself in the face". Instructions, pah, for weaklings... Heed that one, I nearly lost a tooth...
Makes a man feel like a kid at Christmas time again!!
Trust them on this one... Lest you want to get to know your dentist better...
Cant quite clearly see it, but without too much effort you can take the shifter and pull it straight out of the nylon cup around the ball. Actually happened a couple of times in the week where I was busy waiting for the spares, so I could say to the missus, see, shifter is broken, we need the new one... Now just to convince her that the supercharger is an alternator, and the car won't run without it :cartel:
Quite the piece of work to get the rubber grommet out without destroying it. After all, it has been sitting there for 13 odd years.. If any of you are planning on doing this, get some silicone oil, and apply it liberally around the periphery of the seal, also on the inside where it goes over the shifter, as without doing that I would have probably still been out there cussing like a sailor trying to get that back in...
I seem to have her fairly well trained...
We cleaned all the parts as they came off, so the reassembly was a breeze. Oh, and note the decatted center section of exhaust.
Now I didn't really get any pictures of underneath the car, but like I said earlier, you do the same amount of stripping as you would do taking the 'box out... I left the propshaft connected, but dropped the center section of the exhaust, and lowered the intermediate pipes by about 500mm to get that $^$# heatshield out... Kept the intermediate pipes on a spare jackstand, and it seemed to work pretty well. You also need to remove the rear suspension brace, that triangular piece that mounts on the rear subframe and on the back sides of the body.
Boot full of spares, and the laptop with TIS to get torque specs. Now for those of you that don't know me, there is not a bolt that goes in with spanner pressure only, Ze Germans published those torque figures for a reason, so follow it. Invest in a decent torque wrench or two, you avoid stripping/breaking bolts, and the stuff doesn't go on Tarzan-tight.
All the goodies that came with the shifter... You have to see the machining quality on these parts, pics just do not do it justice.
New VS old...
Old ball looking like an old ball... A bit worse for wear there...
The shifter carrier, for want of a better term... Lekker dirty, after 215,000km's. It came out slightly easier than anticipated, about 7-8 cuss words per minute... The tricky part is that pesky clip that secures it to the top of the gearbox. Partly because you can't see the %*$ thing... But, alas, this was the 3rd time I had to go through that fantastic honeymoon like little endeavor...
The rear chassis brace there in the foreground...
Spares after lots of love from a loving, no REALLY loving wife
And a wee bit of Prepsol...
Getting ready to prep the shifter carrier... Once again the quality of these parts is nothing short of phenomenal. You get what you pay for in this case here. Love the attention to detail, everything you need to install it is included with the kit, note even a little tube of Loctite 242 thread locker. They have you install the round part into the shifter carrier with 6 2.5mm screws, secured with 242. On 2.5mm screws and 242, that is as good as welding those screws in there... So take your time, read amd re-read the good book of words, and do it properly the 1st time.
Nice and clean thanks to the wife's efforts
Installed, ready for the shifter
They even supply you with the grease required...
Delrin bushes on the front part in the quest for zero slop...
The DSSR. Double Shear Selector Rod. Jeez, sounds like NASA with all the fancy acronyms. But then again, it does produce the desired effect
Machined Beauty...
