Auto stick

[Kruisin Kat]

I was out the other evening and decided to play a little on a few ramps to the highway. I had the kat in autostick mode. I just don't like the side to side action of the shifter, it's way to easy to click it to a lower gear when your hand is on the shifter when taking a right hand corner. I was accelerating in second around a ramp and all of a sudden bam! I'm in first bouncing off the rev limiter! I didn't even feel the shifter move.

Long story but, Has anyone else done this? I am going to look in the service manual and see if I can modify the shifter to need a more forceful input from the user before the downshift will happen.

If anyone has already done the modification, please let me know.

[Dreamcast18]

Keep us posted..happened to me once: was grabbing something from the passenger seat and somehow hit the shifter to N!!!! WTF!!! Was driving in the fast lane probably 90mph with crazy LA bumper to bumper traffic... :shock:

[Scott Drolet]

It's happened to me as well and wonder if other cars with similar transmissions (porsche, vette, whatever) have the same hair-trigger response. You know those little "+" amd "-" buttons? Too bad you just couldn't hit those to shift. Might be easier, especailly if you have a drink in the holder.

Scott

[Dreamcast18]

Interesting reads here abt paddle shifting conversion:

http://www.twistmachine.com/products/


http://dodgeintrepid.net/forums/printthread.php?t=13973&page=2&pp=15

seems like it can be done:

http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread/179677