{"id":19,"date":"2005-04-21T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T14:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/test\/2005\/04\/shifter-work\/"},"modified":"2005-04-26T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T16:59:54","slug":"shifter-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2005\/04\/21\/shifter-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifter Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be in the mood to work on my car this week!<br \/>\nMy new Isotta shift knob came this week&#8230;I had always wanted one after experiencing their nice Italian leather I had on my Focus steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>I also always thought MINI&#8217;s stick was way too high. I considered getting a real short shifter, but the combined high cost and the unreasonably difficult install of dropping the exhaust and installing from underneath has kept me away.<\/p>\n<p>So I figured what could I loose by simply shortening the stock stick? (Yes yes I know I&#8217;m not shortening the throw, but that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m going after&#8211;I want reduced height.) So I spent a few hours after work last night with a hacksaw and the good ol&#8217; Dremel.<\/p>\n<p><center><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/images\/shifterchop.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The metal was surprisingly hard to get through, I thought the Dremel would do it easily but I had to resort to a hack saw. The dremel was much more useful for getting rid of that wider plastic part. Of course, I was covered with metal and plastic dust.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I finished I was working by flashlight so sorry to tease but there are no completed photos yet. The drive to work this morning I could instantly feel a difference, I was no longer grabbing the shifter around its neck and shifting felt more accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be in the mood to work on my car this week! My new Isotta shift knob came this week&#8230;I had always wanted one after experiencing their nice Italian leather I had on my Focus steering wheel. I also always thought MINI&#8217;s stick was way too high. I considered getting a real short shifter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}