Heh, someone shifts too hard. :)

[BMW BMXER]

I broke my shift knob in half once, shot it into the rear seat area.

[nando]

What the hell does the selector rod have to do with air conditioning?

I wanted to know the same thing.. maybe an air conditioned selector rod for those hot days on the track? :?

[Spencer]

Ha ha ha... you think you shift hard. You're lucky. I shifted hard enough to sheer off 2 of the gear selector forks inside my transmission. Lets see you do that ;)

HAHAHAHAHA that's nothing, i shift so hard that one time the trannie came up throught the floorboards & hit your mom in the face

you rule, jordan

I burst out laughing at work when I read this post.

Thanks – I was having a shitty morning!

-Spencer

[Jonathan M3]

Good to see you're back Pete :mrgreen:

[Ryan Stewart]

Do you all actually shift that hard? With any effort at all?

Even with the SSK mine is like a video game shifter, I usually just flicked it with my fingertips in daily driving. I hope the E36 M3 tranny is just as smooth, im going to have a SSK on it too.

Right now it feels like there is something wrong with the M3 I am driving. you have to move the knob like 4 feet and you cant tell if its clicked into gear or not.

[Jand3rson]

Do you all actually shift that hard? With any effort at all?

Even with the SSK mine is like a video game shifter, I usually just flicked it with my fingertips in daily driving. I hope the E36 M3 tranny is just as smooth, im going to have a SSK on it too.

Right now it feels like there is something wrong with the M3 I am driving. you have to move the knob like 4 feet and you cant tell if its clicked into gear or not.

Yeah, even my Z3 1.9 SSK was pretty easy to shift, I never had to shift that hard at all.

[808BMW]

I haven't broken mine, I don't slam it around like that... but how many of you have broken your gas pedal? I'm going to need a new one soon.

Lead foot > Plastic gas pedal

[BeirBrennerE30]

I haven't broken mine, I don't slam it around like that... but how many of you have broken your gas pedal? I'm going to need a new one soon.

Lead foot > Plastic gas pedal

i didnt break it but once after working under the dash i didnt put that knee bolster up as well as i thought and it well while driving and jammed the gas against the floor..... NOW THATS SCARY!!! good thing it was manual and i could hit the clutch when it registered what had happened

[Spaz]

worn and fatiqued parts break, it could happen to any of use, its not how hard you shift.

[clutterbucker]

If those four metal clamps on your Selector Rod are weights...then you have a Weighted Selector Rod. And that's a fact. More weight on the selector rod means more momentum slamming through the gears. More momentum means....ah, you get it. You f***ed your s**t up man.

[Digitalwave]

If those four metal clamps on your Selector Rod are weights...then you have a Weighted Selector Rod. And that's a fact. More weight on the selector rod means more momentum slamming through the gears. More momentum means....ah, you get it. You f***ed your s**t up man.

More wear on your synchros eh?

[zandi]

before i replaced my broken and worn shift knob that was barely hanging on for life i once shifted so hard that the i pulled the shift knob right off. :roll:. now that i have a functional shift knob i dont have that problem anymore though.

heh, good luck with the new selector rod

haha i've done that too, and now the shift knob twists all around so 5th gear is 1st

[schmick325]

My gas pedal broke while the car was on the dyno once.

I have also broken one of those shifter linakges . . The pin on the shifter end lost half its welding and i could only shift into 1 3 5 gears. Reverse, 2 and 4 were no go as it was bending!

[Ryan Stewart]

nice cabbie.