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Hans E. Hansen (4re_gt4)
Member
Username: 4re_gt4
Post Number: 964
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 8:22 pm: | |
Tim: I think that's right, because if you are adjusting the linkage on a 308 and mess up, you basically can't work the gearbox. It could try to select two gears at once, or just simply won't find any gear! |
Tim N (Timn88)
Advanced Member
Username: Timn88
Post Number: 2617
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 2:15 pm: | |
I think they have gated shifters because their transmissions don't have internal stops. The gates are what guides the shifter into the right place. someone correct me if i'm wrong. |
James Glickenhaus (Napolis)
Member
Username: Napolis
Post Number: 815
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 11:23 am: | |
Wayne
On a comp car it inables you to feel what gear your in with your fingers without having to look down. The interior lighting in many comp cars is so bad that many times one wished for instruments you could feel as well. Some of the gated shifters have sequential lock out built in as well. My P4 has sequential lock (I doubt replica builders picked up on this). You must go from 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1. You can't go from 5-3. You can go up or down a gear from any gear but you can't skip a gear. I think this prevented missing a shift or mechanically overreving. The gated shifter also made it easier to find a gear and adjust the linkage which in comp cars had to run from the cockkpit to the rear transaxel. My MK-IV is gated (4 speed) but not sequential. My Lola (5 speed) isn't gated but was sequential ( I removed that for the street)
Best
Jim |
L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Intermediate Member
Username: Lwausbrooks
Post Number: 1224
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 9:30 am: | |
For whatever reason, the gated shifter was originally used on the competition cars. I can only guess that it made it easier to know what gear one was in at any given time.
As for the road cars, the gated shifter is supposed to be found only on those cars that are equipped with a rear transaxle, as opposed to an engine-transmission-drive shaft-rear differential setup. Since this now applies to every modern Ferrari, they all have the gated shifter, that is, with the exception of the F1 shifting cars. |
Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Junior Member
Username: Stickanddice
Post Number: 176
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 3:56 am: | |
It's hard to shift fast on the gated ones though. Takes practice. |
Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Member
Username: Jordan747_400
Post Number: 527
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 1:12 am: | |
Yea I agree, gated shifting is much easier. Finding gears takes a bit of getting used to switching from car to car, they are all different. |
Modified348ts (Modman)
Member
Username: Modman
Post Number: 498
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 12:11 am: | |
One benefit of the gated shifter is so that it don't wobble around while driving in a particular gear, other than that crap gets stuck down in there after years of accumulative driving. I tried shifting without the gate and it's horrible trying to get into gears so I see why it's needed. Reverse is even worse. |
Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Member
Username: Jordan747_400
Post Number: 525
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 14, 2003 - 11:49 pm: | |
A lot of the classic front engine 12s dont have gated shifters. To be honest I cant explain the benefits of either though... |
Erik Smith (Teenferrarifan)
New member
Username: Teenferrarifan
Post Number: 13
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 14, 2003 - 11:38 pm: | |
I have been searching through the forum, and haven't really found the answer. Why does ferrari use a gated shifter? What are the benefits compared to an enclosed gate? Where any fcars made in stick without a gated shifter?
Erik |