Evening gents,

Just to let you know that I have a few paddle shift kits left over from the second batch (black paddles, silver centre)!
The price is £78 including postage and packing!

U2u me if your interested

Thom

p.s. Also have direction changers available!

Could this be made to work with a cable rather than rods? And how does it mount? I have taken all the switch gear off my column and rounded off the ally casting it was all atatched to.

Thanks
Ben.

AP racing sell a push/pull cable for paddle shifts that they use on their race cars, planing on getting one once I get my engine, bit lighter than a push rod system

Hi,

I'm using the push-pull automatic transmission shifter cable and the mounting hardware from a 1991 Mazda Sedan I found at a junk yard. Works just fine on a Suzuki BEC..

IMHO Cables, no matter how well set up, don't work as well as a rod set-up. As for weight I cannot see any benefit of cables. I use M4 rose joints & 16g ally plate for the quadrant. The shift is super-direct. A friend of mine recently converted his Fury to pushrod from a single push-pull cable and would not go back & he definitely saved weight.

I prefer the push rod linkage, but there is no reason why you couldn’t adapt the design to accept cables!

Blimey O Reilly, what a great looking bit of kit.

Originally had the standard Fury paddle shift in steel, and this is 600g lighter! I'm attaching mine to a push pull cable for now, and looks like this will just bolt straight on to the back of the paddle.

To get through SVA, I'm going to remove the steel shaft and grind my sierra column down a little more, so that the shiny new paddle will fit on the end of the collapsable column.

All in all, a fantastic looking bit of engineering, you can tell that a lot of thought has gone into the design of it. Can't wait to get the car on the road to use it.

Thanks again,

Ian (not on commisson BTW !!)

paddles shifts are SVA exempt if thats what you mean...

posted on 20/7/06 at 09:58

" paddle shifts are SVA exempt if thats what you mean... "

For SVA I believe that you have to have a collapsable steering column, which this isn't. Shouldn't be an issue though.

sorry my fault but the actual paddle is ok

ta chris

My kit arrived this morning, thanks Thom.
It is a fantastic piece of kit, beautifully made and very light. Also comes with fitting instructions..very professional.
It was going to be a job for the winter as i have to relocate all the sierra swtichgear but I dont think i can have it lying around the garage. I will try to get it fitted before harewood hillclimb on the 6th August

Paddle shift kits are available again gents!

£78 including P&P, photos are in my archive, or try searching for old treads!

U2U sent

Thom,
Paddles arrived, thanks for the prompt delivery, can't wait to fit them now.

Cheers Steve.

From what I saw with several years of iterations of paddle shifters on FSAE cars, push-pull cables were never very good. Just never could get the effort low enough. Not wanting the weight and complexity of a pushrod system, they went to pull-pull cables (yep, two of 'em). They basically used good bicycle brake cables, which weight next to nothing, and it worked great. The shift effort was very low, felt like you were pulling right on the gearbox lever.

Also, I think in the latest iteration they may have used a pulley to prevent a sharp bend in the cable, and it worked very well. Not sure how practical and durable this is for a locost app, but just thought I'd throw it out there.

Dan