Anti-Weight Savings PT2 2

I’ve said before, I hate the dinky plastic shift knobs that come on most cars.  Many of you agree with me, and replace your shift knobs with big fat plastic shift knobs…  I don’t really get it.  A gear lever should have a nice weight to it.  A shift knob should fall into gear with the slightest nudge, and have the ability to smash syncros should that nudge be poorly timed.  Your Delrin or Nylon knob would have to be the size of a basketball to pull that off…

Enter the weighted knob.  Or maybe you’d rather mis-shift?

With a new car to drive, I’ve been searching for new hand controls.  There are many nice looking shift knobs available for  less than $40, but most of them weigh about what a stock unit weighs (50-80 grams).  For a lot more money (i.e. $100-$300) you can find a weighted knob that weighs anywhere from 250 grams up to 500 grams.  I can’t pay that… so I just made one on my own.  Five hundred and twenty-two grams might be a bit excessive, but it was simple enough that I might do it again and drill it out a little more.  The weighted Greddy knob I found years ago is a measely 370 grams in comparison.

Now, if only I could find a local M12 x 1.25 tap…

I guess this will go on the AE86 with a suede MOMO deep cone wheel I grabbed off Yahoo.  It’s much too vicious and home brew for the personality of the Celica.