HOMEMADE SHIFTER?

I would like to make my own six-speed shifter, although I have no idea how to make it. ANY ideas would help. Thanks. Dan Gibson

shifter on a thick piece of plywood, about 4' x 4', so I can put my chair on it and keep it in place. At least two problems to overcome...(and I would certainly appreciate any and all comments)... First...you won't be able to use the 'gates', ie, shifting from 2nd to 3rd, up and across. So...pull straight back for shifting up, push forward for shifting down. This poses the biggest problem, at least in my mind. I'll need to work out how to spring load some heavy duty micro switches to return the shifter to neutral position. And also some stops to keep from breaking the hell out of same. Just doing some preliminary work at this point...keep in touch. Now if the kind folks at ECC could accomodate with extra lead-offs from the wheel mounted shift buttons on my soon to be ordered CDS2R...:-) cheers...duncan.

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> (Steve Gibson) writes: > >I would like to make my own six-speed shifter, although I have no idea > >how to make it. ANY ideas would help. Thanks. > >Dan Gibson > >Dan...working on the idea myself. Thinking of mounting a Hurst > shifter on a thick piece of plywood, about 4' x 4', so I can put > my chair on it and keep it in place. At least two problems to > overcome...(and I would certainly appreciate any and all comments)... > First...you won't be able to use the 'gates', ie, shifting from > 2nd to 3rd, up and across. So...pull straight back for shifting up, > push forward for shifting down.

I was thinking the same thing. I bet someone with a good knowledge of IC's and a small procceser could wire the individual switches for each gear, such as that the procceser know's that if you switch to third from second then it would upshift and from fourth to third it would downshift. If the procceser (and program) knew what gear you shift to, it could up or downshift according to what gear you were in. To bad I'm a little electronically challanged when it comes to stuff like that or I would figure it out myself. I have a basic knowledge of this and I know it can be done. -- I think people can figure out the spam filter to reply to me.. Kel Calgary, Alberta CANADA