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Anybody had any experience with this unit. I'm very old school and just the looks work for me. But,,will it preform? Thx, Mike D (Western NY) Part # 3915085 or 45044
I have one in my car, installed by the previous owner. It works. It certainly is a shorter shift. Mine is incredibly stiff, but I've heard there are adjustments for that. Supposedly anyway. I've learned to live with/enjoy it, but I believe if I was purchasing my own, I'd go with MGW.
i had hurst and swapped to the 2nd gen MGW upper, they are both pretty close but the MGW is a touch less notchy witch makes shifting a little faster
the hurst does have adjustments but its just for the centering stiffness, with the hurst shifts are way better then stock when driving aggressive the shifter really shines 2nd to 3rd is a breeze (if you miss its 100% driver error) every shift is a positive feel and centering is very good, daily putting around from what i seen both hurst and mgw takes some getting use to it takes some muscle to get in gear its a trade off for a short shifter. reverse can be a pain i've learned to just go in 1st gear then reverse other wise i'm fighting with reverse half the time.
I am considering the Hurst for my 2002 since I had one in my 2009 Challenger R/T. I really liked the shifting feel and very positive 2 to 3 shift. It is firm and does take some getting used to for sure but I always knew what gear the car was in. Plus, the old school look was what sold me in the beginning. I'm not so sure that look is right for the Corvette but I can always pull the boot up closer to the ****.
Have had the Hurst in ours for many years. I can't remember when I actually put it in....I just remember waiting for the Hurst shifter to be available.
Our unit works very well and has never had any issues. We have 114k on the car now. The unit comes with different spring kits that affect the stiffness of it when installed. A search here may uncover some of the spring combos that folks like.
Our is noticeably stiffer than stock. While I was happy with it at first, the spousal unit was not as initially pleased. However, she got used to it very quickly (within a few weeks) and has no issues with it.
As others have mentioned, MGW makes a good unit as well. A good friend had one for his 2001 Z. He swore by his....
I have one in my car, installed by the previous owner. It works. It certainly is a shorter shift. Mine is incredibly stiff, but I've heard there are adjustments for that. Supposedly anyway. I've learned to live with/enjoy it, but I believe if I was purchasing my own, I'd go with MGW.
Had one in my car for two weeks. It was stiff, noisy and detracted from the car. Pulled it and sold it. Installed the C6 shifter assembly and have been very happy with that ever since. I had Hurst in many of my prior cars but the C5 version, at least in my opinion, is well made junk.
I may not be the best judge of this, because even though my C-5 is 15 years old, it only has 24,000 miles on it. However, there's been a Hurst shifter on it since it was about 6 months old. I got one of them from Hurst's first batch.
I've fiddled with it a little over the years, to get it working "slickly", but I certainly do like it...........
If you like the old school look of the Hurst rectangular chrome stick and white ball ****, look at the custom shifter from CoreShifters. It uses Hurst internals with a custom base to fit the Corvette box. I had one in my C5, and transferred it to the C7.
I had the Hurst billet shifter first, but it required significantly more shift effort. The CoreShifters version is a good compromise of short throw with minimal increase in shift effort.
I've had both, the Hurst flat-side and the MGW. I actually just switched from the Hurst to the MGW a few days ago since it came as an extra from when I bought the Z. FWIW, here are my conclusions...
-Hurst didn't need the Anti-Venom mod, where as the MGW definitely did. In part, this is because Hurst was a bit longer, so less leverage needed to shift left or right;
-Hurst felt like it had more positive throws;
-Both are notchy, although MGW feels a bit more I think;
-MGW has much shorter throws;
-I like the shorter feel of the MGW with a C6 ****.
I think both are good shifters. The way it is, Hurst shifted better for me. I like the shorter look and feel of the MGW, however. I may add another spacer to the detent to see if it helps. Either way, I ordered a complete C6 shifter, which I had on my other C5Z. Will keep the MGW handy in case I'll have regrets with the C6.
have had one in my '00 coupe that is road raced for a couple of seasons now and have found it very good in that application as compared to stock anything.
Interestingly my wife really likes it on the street as compared to the stock shortened unit we had previously (that surprised me but she told me that she liked it much better because it just felt much more positive to her and she didn't worry about an accidental "half-shift" anymore)...
Hurst short throw shifter
