Paddle Shifting (for MT)

[WolfWings]

Originally Posted by Tamago

which of these is a cable shift manual transmission?

either way, the intent of my setup is to do away with cables ;)

They're specifying that they support some of the transmissions that a lot of 'universal sequential shifter kits' don't, because the stock transmission is a rod-linked assembly or true top-mount shifter. Those are the transmissions that they specifically have adapter modules designed and tested for to link to their cable-shifter two-servos-in-a-box brain, and pre-programmed settings for said brain-in-a-box. And said vehicles are expensive enough to justify a $1900-$2400 paddle-shifter kit. :-)

The MasterShift kit comes with a programming cable and software CD for a reason: It's for setting the distances the box actually has to shift the cable-linkages for the gate-selector and syncro-selector inputs, and specifying paths and routes for the shifting to follow.

And any cable linkage can be replaced with a hydraulic linkage, witness modern brakes versus the old cable-powered brakes used as recently at the 80's. Hell, many vehicles with in-board brakes (brakes mounted beside the differential, bolted to the chassis instead of part of the wheel assembly, Jaguar's and Hummer-1's mostly) can have hard brake line going all the way to the brake calipers.

They'd use hydraulics more places, but it's a lot more expensive to design and prone to maintenance headaches than a length of steel rope inside a plastic sheath, which is almost all a transmission-cable is since it doesn't have to deal with large forces like brakes do/did.

Didn't mean to come off as knockin' on the work you're doing, it's looking awesome so far. :-)