To Short Shift Or Not To Short Shift?, That Is The Question… Options

[Lucky9146]

I believe the spacer looking thing under my shifter base plate is a Weltmeister Short Shift adapter/ spacer. Anyone have experience with a Weltmeister?



I Googled “short shift 914” and came up with a chat on Pelican Parts from several years ago. This led me to look on the PP site to see what they currently offer and apparently the one for later 914’s is no longer available. My belief, based on a similar one they do offer for early 914’s for $77.00, is that it was not a particularly expensive piece compared to the Rennshift ones offered for $560.00 and maybe you get what you pay for.



Looking for any info from anyone on the Weltmeister if you have/had one OR short shift kits in general. I doubt if I will be tracking this car.

Trying to decide if I should leave it or remove it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
My build thread is here. http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=261197

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[Dave_Darling]

At least some of the Weltmeister kits require you to cut the linkage at one point and epoxy it back together again. The quality of that joint can vary immensely.

Short shift kits tend to be harder on your transmission if you use them to shift gears faster. Which most people do. That means less time to get the RPMs of the gears to match, which means more work for the synchro brake bands to do. Which tends to wear them more.

They can also exaggerate existing shifting problems. If you go through the linkage and make sure everything is tight, and you shift nice and slowly, it should work just fine.

--DD