ii was wanting to get a different shifter handle for my 7.. but one thing is that i have any automatic and it had the hold button and the other button to change grares and all.. can u even get a different shifter for it or is just one of those nice perks for people who have manuals.???

 

manual swap

 

You are teh screwed.

 

yeah... thats a good brand for auto shifters haha... saw that coming

...it's true though, i hate my auto for not dying and giving me an excuse to swap

 

what does the hold button do?

 

well i really dont want to do a manual swap because well.....um..... yeah.. i cant drive a stick.. the only reason that id like to swap would be for more powe......and the hold button keeps ur rpms high.. say like if u push the hold button when ur going up hill, it will keep ur rpms high that way u can get up the hill faster

 

the manual swap thing is a joke... everyone likes to hate on autos. the hold button turns off overdrive... i think. i have a OD switch on my s4 tho.

i don't think you're going to find what you're looking for and if you did it would be expensive. every car i've seen with that stuff on the shifter has a different layout of electrical connectors and rods to release the shifter. could be wrong though...

why do you want to change it anyways? the s5 auto shifter looks really cool IMO.

 

Everyone hates on autos because they suck! They're like training wheels!

Learn how to drive a stick its not hard and its sooooooooooo much more fun and you have sooooooooo much more control of your car.

 

true... but it's not as easy as learning stick, a swap is expensive and time consuming

anyone gonna talk about the shifter or just hate on autos more? haha

 

sure i ll talk about it. Get a regular aftermarket shift **** and put it on. Now take the wires that go to the little pushbutton overdrive switch and put a little pushbutton switch on the shifter surround. or just learn how to drive a stick

 

get a **** with an overdrive switch

http://www.autoaccessorystore.com/ho...options=1&s=br

 

i got a seven, didnt know how to stick, read some online learners guides, now i drive to work every day, its just as easy as auto, just leave it in 1st all the time

 

I vote for the latter.

 

yep hehe

 

manual's what messed up my dad's left leg, and autos are so much more convenient it's ridiculous. But then again, manual's so much more fun it's ridiculous. Never seen aftermarket auto ***** before, very interesting...

 

Aftermarket auto shifters are easy to find, a lot of drag racing is on automatic trannies.

JC Whitney, Jegs, SummitRacing, I'm sure they have SOMETHING that will accomidate you.

 

my RX7 was my first car and its stick, and it has the clutch set really tight, i got the hang of it the first day, stop worrying its something you should learn anyways

 

i really like those ones!!





i tryed to learn one time with a friend of mines car he had a 86 mustang gt and the clutch was so hard i barely could push it all the way down and he was yelling at me fo not shifting right so i was just like the hell with it i'll stick with my nice lil auto...my 7

 

lol you shouldnt try and learn on a mustang gt......wait thats what i learned on. anyways try a different car mustangs have a weird clutch.


oh and autos suck....my seven is and auto and in about 6 months it wont be....

 

An rx-7 clutch is nothing like a mustang clutch, it is twice as soft they are real easy to learn.Try it just buy a 7 with a stick or switch yours over you'll thank all of us afterwards for telling you to do this. by the way my sister has had 2 87 RX-7's she didnt like the auto so she made me find her a stick

 

It's a little hard to learn to drive a stick when you've got an impatient a$$ hole teaching you. I learned how to teach clutch operation as an MSF instructor. It's all about easing the pedal through a narrow friction zone. Most people give you the impression that once you feel the clutch grab, that's it, let go of the pedal.

Having driven an auto FC and a 5-speed, I can tell you that the auto is pathetic. With a more modern AT, or a clutchless stick, it might be nice, but I'll stick to the 5-speed.

 

pathetic??? really its not that bad.. and i cant just go out and buy another 7... and i cant afford to switch it to manual right now.. and once again i like my auto...