[DeTomaso] Cable Shifter

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Thank You Julian, that was quite helpful!


>
> Getting into this discussion late, but I have cable shifters on both the
> Ultima and GT40.
> The Ultima is using a  Porsche G50 transaxle with the side shift adapter
> and  a Renegade shifter. It took a long while to get the gate correct to
> have both R and 5th without issue and solving the expansion difference
> between hot & cold. Shift cables are a 1/4-28 typically, although you can
> go 5/16-24 if you don't have to negotiate any tight bends as the larger
> the cable the greater the minimum bend radius.
> At one point I was going to convert the GT40 to a ZF and have one of CNC's
> early ZF cable ends here in a box, it's very well made I think it was a
> bout $300 a good while back. The cab shifter can be had at your local
> pick-n-pull out of a mid 80's Toyota Tercel, in fact I have a couple here
> (these are visually identical to the ones Superformance supplies with
> their GT40's). In fact I just recalled I have a shifter and cables for SPF
> GT40 too in the loft.
> I ended up switching the GT40 to a cable shift but retaining the Porsche
> transaxle. The old rod shifter was a bit vague and went out through the
> floor and under the car, so ground clearance was minimal. I also wanted to
> relocate it onto the tunnel and on the KVA GT40 the center spines of the
> tube chassis double as the coolant tubes, so no way to straight down
> through the tunnel. The conversion was actually easier than I first
> thought it would be and I fabricated the transaxle end components, which
> when you think about aren't that complex. You need a way of connecting the
> cable to the for-aft movement of the shifter, where I simply cut the old
> rod and tapped the end for a 1/4-28 cable. The cross gate is just a bell
> crank affair I welded to the rod, the tricky part is just getting the
> correct rotational movement i.e. length.
> I went to Control Cables Inc. in CA for my cables
> http://store.controlcables.com/CCI_Catalog.pdf
> All that said I don't think I'd be in a hurry to convert a Pantera to
> cable shift.
> Julian
>
>> From: dnunn at telus.net
>> To: detomaso at realbig.com
>> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:50:25 -0700
>> Subject: [DeTomaso]  Cable Shifter
>>
>> CNC Performance Parts (http://cncperformanceparts.com) makes a cable
>> shifter
>> for the ZF.
>>
>> It's my understanding that James Malin's cable shifter is the CNC
>> Performance Parts unit with a few modifications to make it work better
>> in a
>> Pantera. I did speak with James Malin about one but decided it wasn't
>> for
>> me. One of the things I didn't like was the fact the Pantera's shift
>> gate
>> gets replaced by a leather boot and Momo shift knob. I also couldn't
>> imagine
>> it could improve shifting over a properly maintained and adjusted OE
>> shift
>> mechanism. As far as the price is concerned, I don't recall the amount
>> but I
>> do remember it didn't shock me.
>>
>> If you do fit a cable shifter to your Pantera, you can then go one step
>> further and fit a paddle shifter from Mastershift
>> (http://mastershift.com),
>> as they make one for ZF's with cable shifters.
>>
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