wats the differents? and is anybody useing a ebay short shifter??

 

"wats the differents??????" -Plato

 

Yeah?

 

 

The difference is the mazdatrix tax

 

dont go ebay man you get what you pay for

 

...or, the fact that you can chose to support a company that has done alot of R&D for the community and will reinvest their profits onto that R&D to provide their customers with better products.

Or buy a knock off POS Chinese copy from a company who doesn't care about anything but making a quick buck.

 

100000000000000% correct...and I am CHINESE! hahahaa...as long as the price is "fair" and not trying to rape me, I would def support a vendor that supports me. Mazdatrix is def not the cheapest out there, but I know they R&D it and they have good quality and been in the game for a LONG TIME. I remember going there when I was a youngin and freshman year at CSULB and buying air cleaner and headers etc.

 

please excuse DJDino. He bought them short shifter for personal use LOLLLLLLLLLLLL

 

oh yes...it worked well on you.

I agree, u get what u pay for. However a lot of things are designed here then shipped out to my homies in china to manufacture. How else would u get knock offs. For example, take a look at wacky's peg leg, designed by pirates, sent to china to duplicate.

 

EBAY all the way.. Mazda Trix isn't even a real company.

 

I've had an ebay Miata short shifter that cost me $20 shipped for over 4 years now. It's been in my Turbo FB, my FC, and my current FB, and it works flawlessly...

 

Um, there never was a turbo FB. I'd be suspicious of anything this guy claims from now on.


If you want to make your shift stick shorter couldn't you just cut it?

 

Ive had two S5 13BT swapped FB's and yes there was a turbo FB in Japan...

 

lol renton, Hyper is legit, hes from WA like me lol. My brother actually bought his old car haha

 

Elford Turbo?

 

Yep, there definitely was a FB turbo, came with a 12a turbo engine, not intercooled if I remember correctly.

 

The ebay short shifters are garbage..... some might work alright for a while, but they're cheaply made and I've uninstalled more than a few broken ones.

I have a mazdatrix s/s in my FC vert and the quality is much better, the shifting feels more solid too. Well worth the extra money.

 

Na, that's not possible. California smog laws, look'm up.

Sup shane! Na.

I didn't know El Ford made a Turbo, or what El Ford is in general. Na.

Na, you can turbocharge a car without a cooler.



I'm beginning to suspect a lot of so-called 'established forum members' are not to be trusted.

 

if I had the money, I would def go for maztrixs shifter. But since I don't, I recently bought $20 short shifter on my fc. And it was surprisingly better than what I expected. Bit notchy here and there. But at the end, it was 20 bucks man lol

 

ha. If you're easily bored skip this next bit then....

Elford Engineering, a Mazda dealer in Bournemouth, England and small engineering firm, offered a self-developed turbo upgrade to the FB. After extensive testing, Mazda UK offically licensed them to produce 500 "Elford Turbo" limited edition cars. It was an officially supported Mazda enterprise to the point where all Mazda technicians were trained on service and maintenance of the turbo cars. They ran a Garret AiResearch T04B with an SU carb and a comparatively high compression ratio of 9.4:1 with a completely unique exhaust system which necessitated ditching all the emissions nonsense, reactor, etc....which is why they didn't weigh any more than the stock car and also why they couldn't be offered for sale in the American market where the emissions laws were a lot stricter.

Developed approximately 160 bhp at 6k rpm with 150 lb ft at 4k. zero-sixty was around seven seconds, top speed approx 135mph...and reliability was spectacularly bad on the early models but a later switch to EFI increased reliability as did revised manifolds...after the company of Elford Turbo ltd had been listed to deal with the problems. They also boasted upgraded front brakes, a bodykit of airdam with driving lights, skirts and rear spoiler, Elford badging and model-specific gold Wolfrace wheels. Price was an eye-watering £10 900 of Her Majesty's finest pounds as opposed to £8750 for the base model, though a retro-conversion service was offered to existing customers. Price rose to £12000 by the end of the run, which did indeed run to about 500 models.


....none of this is especially funny, but it is true. Not especially useful to the OPs question about shortshifters, either. Errrrm, I've got a B&M one but I think they're OOP now so that's even less helpful. Sorry. It's great, though

 

Did you just copy some Wikipedia article and replace "Lancia" with "Ford"? Although, that does sound like 70's English reliability.

You should be a science-fiction writer.

 

LOL rentons on a roll hahhaa, u and jason still need to head over to my place!

 

Yes there is a 12A turbo, that came stock. I do know that you can turbocharge without an intercooler. I was stating I did not know if the FB with a 12A turbo came with one or not, which apparently it did not according to this picture of a 12a turbo engine.

http://cp_www.tripod.com/rotary/images/pg18_02b.jpg
http://cp_www.tripod.com/rotary/images/pg18_01b.jpg

 

If the pictures don't show up properly I'll upload them when I get home.