These are my views only, you do not need to agree with them.
Installed these on my car today blindly so took like 3 hours due to lots of pondering. Research would of helped heaps. Well onto the review.
The short shifter is pretty light. Or at least alot lighter than the stock DC2 Shifter. Its alluminium after all. Even then it feels nice and solid and claimed by skunk it wont break like other alluminium shifters. Complaint I have about the one I received is that one side of the allumium bushing is a tight fit. I had to use a hammer and gently hammer it in to get it in but then thats manufacturing for you.
The knob feels great. Build quality is flawless and has a nice weight to it. My complaint was that the locking nut that was provided is tapped too small. Which to me isnt acceptable as the locking nut didnt fit over the thread of the skunk2 shifter when they were supposedly made for each other. Good thing I had a tap set so I was able to retap the hole to fit the 10 x 1.5 thread size of the shifter.
My stock shifter was cut previously which already had shortened my throw so with the skunk2 shifter installed the throws are virtually the same (except the skunk2 sits more neutral). Shifting is just a touch better, nothing dramatic. The only problem with the previous guy cutting the stock shifter is that you lose the threads and the only size I was able to thread it to without needing to grind it down was 12 (Skunk2 Knob is 10 x 1.5).
I havent tried the knob on a stock DC2 shifter before so I'm not sure if using the knob on the Skunk2 shifter is any better than using it on the stock DC2 shifter. So in my situation the price for the 2 is not justified as the results were only a fraction better than the previous setup I had in my car. But I will gladly retract my comments if someone tells me that the knob feels alot better on the skunk2 shifter than it does on the stock DC2 shifter.
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