Originally Posted by MORE IMPATIENT

according to many people short shifters fuck your tranny up by putting the car in gear before its supposed to , my argument is, how the fuck did they determine when the car is supposed to go into gear, that kinda doesnt make any sense to me, shifting at an rpm is shifting at an rpm, although i do understand why they say it because of the shorter distance to the gear it can wear the synchros and teeth out prematurely and the added torque load on the main shaft because the engine didnt have time to drop rpm to reduce the speed and load on the gear, but if you shift at 6k rpm with a stock shifter and lets say it catches at 5.5k rpm, how much of a difference is that if your shifting at 6krpm with a short shifter and it catches at 5.7k rpm, is that slight difference in time and torque load really going to make a difference, maybe over a long period of time i guess it could.and the argument that short shifters force the car into gear instead of letting the syncrhos do there job of easing transition of the change but i cant argue with that cause that makes sense, all i know is ive use a short shifter in every car ive ever had and never had a problem, they have all be b&m short shifters so i think ill stick with that and hopefully the problem stays away,ha.