Metal shift knobs a bad idea?
 

I know that the shifter area usually gets decently hot, so would an all metal shift knob be a bad idea right? I was looking at the voodoo knobs but I know the heat transfer will be killer.

Ya, I'd think it would get pretty hot

yup, i could feel the metal ring below my shifter today, since it is nearing summer the damn thing was near burning my finger so i wouldn't suggest a metal shift knob...

I have a Voodoo shift knob and like it alot. It screws on and does not use set screws which caused my MOMO shift knob to come loose a couple of times. A metal shift knob will get hot/cold with the weather. It is not that bad but, it is uncomfortable till it cools down (makes you shift faster). It does not seem to heat up while driving, just from sitting in the sun.

mine doesthat too its a solid steel knob and i just put a clean sock over it when i know itll be in the sun or just throw a shirt on it and it keeps it from baking, itll be about as warm as your dash, not killer, just warm.

I have a Silver aluminum Sparco knob. It was a bad idea... I have to keep a rag or something to cover it up with when I park..

Black leather is a bad idea too! In only 70º weather when I park for long periods of time my shift knob is BURNING by the time I get back in. Same with my steering wheel -_-

i have a aluminium rotor shift knob i made in high school a while ago, it doesnt get hot from driving, but if it's in direct sunlight it can get pretty hot...now that im used to it i wouldnt consider trading it for any other shift knob

i had an aluminum shiftknob in my old integra, i had to put a glove on the damn thing cause it got so hot

Yea, it's a bad idea, I pulled in a car at work with a metal shift knob that had been sitting in the sun a few hours. I put on a glove so I could drive it in and I could still feel the heat through the glove.

yeah mine only gets hot when it's in direct sunlight so i keep a wrist band on it in the summertime. the first time it got hot i couldn't touch the thing and had to use the shirt i was wearing.

iv noticed too that the metal ones that have lights in them tend to die because the heat fries their circut board, so those are a bad idea, ive replaced em twice befor switching to solid metal

You can do like I did, take a piece of pipe that fits snugly in the MOMO shift knob, JB Weld it in the knob, and tap it to thread on the stock shifter.. Works like a charm..

I thought about doing something like that to the MOMO shift knob but, decided to spend the $30 for a round Voodoo shift knob instead. The first time the MOMO came loose was while I was at a track day and on the track.

doesn't anybody like to keep the stock shift knob?

nope, its 15 years old and worn out in almost all cases

Hot Knob
 

i have a greddy all aluminum shift knob I made Fit!!! on my maZda speed short shifter and shince its a bout an inch shorter it gets hot really hot i too throw something over it butim glad i work graveyard i would hate to drive with a hot knob! :bigthumb:

I was considering the black voodoo knob, maybe not...

I've had 5 of them and they've all been in perfect condition every one. What do the voodoo shift knobs look like?

I watch in hilarity every time my friend burns his hand on his metal Greddy shiftknob in his 300ZX, so I'd steer clear of a metal knob. (shift knob that is, u sickos.) Course his cars black/black leather, which doesnt help heating up of the car as a whole...

Just get some racing gloves. lol

I bought the MazdaSpeed short shifter and I couldn't afford a knob, I run without one! It isn't bad at all. The shifters actually have rubber inside the two pieces and it helps insulate the heat pretty well so most of it doesn't even make it up to the top half of the stick.

i have the greddy shift knob. i have been fine driving it in the summer and in the heat. it doesnt get hot at all. the only time i hated driving it was when i drove it in the winter that thing got so cold.

if it didn't peel like crazy.

This one is like mine. Check out the other designs here http://www.teamvoodoo.com/Voodoo/Knobs.html