Any update on "gated" shifter?

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Jul 21, 2010 | 01:50 PM

carsonp

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Any update on "gated" shifter?

i remember seeing some pics a while back of a fake gated shifter looking plate (with out actual gates) for C5s. Has anyone made one with a custom shifter or anyhting to put actual gates in there?

any new pics from anyone?

Jul 21, 2010 | 01:59 PM

dougbfresh

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Why would you want a FAKE gated shifter plate?

Jul 21, 2010 | 02:25 PM

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Jul 21, 2010 | 03:35 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dougbfresh

Why would you want a FAKE gated shifter plate?

Same reason you bought FAKE longtube headers

Oh yeah, I went there.

-Alex

Jul 21, 2010 | 04:06 PM

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seems to me that i remember the folks who were going to do the project (one of the supporting vendors at the time) had to price the item at a pretty expensive price and that kind of turned a lot of folks away as it was more of a cosmetic mod not really a functional one like one of the high priced european jobs have.

i would think you could probably find the thread using the search function.

Jul 21, 2010 | 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by AlexSmith

Same reason you bought FAKE longtube headers

Oh yeah, I went there.

-Alex

You bought fake longtubes?

Jul 21, 2010 | 06:58 PM

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Why would you want a FAKE gated shifter plate?

To match the fake Z06 brake ducts?

Jul 21, 2010 | 10:09 PM

midlifetoy1

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gated shifter

Is this what you are refering to?

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-g...for-an-a4.html

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Jul 21, 2010 | 10:27 PM

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It's in this thread - see post #86"

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-g...que-mod-5.html

Jul 22, 2010 | 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by jornahow

It's in this thread - see post #86"

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-g...que-mod-5.html

that isn't really a gated shift plate. the one i believe the orig poster was referring to was a bit more gated in design, and was originally priced somewhere north of $200 by the vendor who was trying to get a feel for any interest (it might have been almost a year ago). as indicated in the post you reference even without the more "realistic" gates, that member stated he hit the gate points from time to time shifting. the gated shift plates usually used on the high end european models is truly "gated" and resembles the actual shift pattern cut out of the plate making shifting very straight line from 1 to 2 and 3 to 4, and requiring a very deliberate up/over/up from 2 to 3. not to be confused with anything that would allow a "speed shift", lol!!

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