E30 Short Shift.. Help b4 I buy...!

did you get the new nylon bush as well ?

this will transform the shifter making it far more tighter than a worn unit.

 

i posted on a few forums that out of all the mods i did i rated this as the best value one i ever did on my bmw.

I didnt have to bend mine!! So Im sure they wouldnt need bending at all as my M3 is no different to any other M3

it is commonly known that many times the lower arm needs bending and in fact this is also written in almost every decent review about fitting them.

why would you use a shifter that requires modding when you have been informed that there is a shifter that 100% doesnt need anything to be modded and shifts slightly quicker and smoother than the one you intend to use ???

thats where your wrong.

the m3 unit is cheaper by �2.16

as for the not knowing, get yourself on the zone where it seems a large proportion of people who have done the conversion have had to bend the lower arm.

Yawn! I'm bored with this thread now

We're never going to agree, so.........

Nice to see a harty discussion without handbags

to be fair, either way its money well spent because when they are on its sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooo much more pleasurable to drive.

no humble pie.

in reality it is more often than not but i didnt want to drag an argument on.

can you point out the people inthis thread who have said they done the mod and didnt need to mod it other than you and one other.

 

also, i reckon (like yourself) that the proof is in the pudding.

get yourself on the e30zone and check out the DOZENS of people who have done the mod and needed to bend the pipe.

 

hell, the fitting guide they have explains that you need to bend it too.

availible here:

http://www.e30zone.co.uk/modules.php?name=tech&page=tech nz3.htm

 

note the part where it says this:

 

Next the selector rod needs some careful modification.  We need to place a slight bend in the selector rod so that it clears the vibration damper on the prop shaft.  This is caused by the extra length of the new Z3 shift lever below the ball joint.  The best way to do this is to place it in a vice. As we didn't have a vice to hand, we made good use of a hammer.  Place the selector rod between two supports and give it a few sharp hits with a hammer.  It should look something like this.

 

here are the pics.

before

after

 

its not that i like to be right all the time, i just really study things before i comment on them as my business doesnt stand mistakes.

I cant see the point in dragging it on either.

a point was made and thats all really.

either avenue people care to follow will reap nice rewards, the only difference being one will almost certainly require you to bend the bottom rod.

on the m3 it is less common but on almost every other application you will almost always have to do it.