MrTej
Well-Known Member
Boomba shift knob installed. If you use a hair dryer like I did (as opposed to a heat gun), you really gotta heat the crap out of it. I'd say a good 2-3 minutes. To turn it, use a glove with some kind of rubber grip material on it, like a mechanix glove. Make sure it's clean! The gripping material helps it to turn. Plus, the knob will be hot after all that heating.Hey everyone,
I live about 45 minutes from Boomba Racing and after chatting with them, I went and picked up a shifter and tool yesterday. Installed it, which was as easy as the video shows it to be, and all I can say is WOW! It is awesome.
I used to have an S2000, which, to me, is arguably one of the best shifting cars ever made in stock form (at least in my budget). You could literally flick your wrist to shift through the gears. Driving the S550 with this shifter is the closest thing to wrist-flick shifting I have driven since.
Definitely be careful removing the shifter bezel. I ended up breaking some of the plastic welds underneath, even cracking the black plastic ring in one spot. All of this is out of view and super glue fixed it right up.
The only other issue I had was with my Roush shift knob that I had on the original shifter. I basically had to destroy it to get it off. The Roush shift knob is set with blue threadlock and it would not budge until I killed it with channel locks. It would have been nice to know in advance that it was a one-time use knob. Needless to say, I will be picking up the Boomba shift knob when I bring the tool back.
The guys at Boomba have been great to work with, very responsive, and they even gave me the group buy price for the shifter! I definitely recommend!
I had to get mine turned a good half a turn to get it lined up and at first I thought it was never gonna go. It eventually did, though.
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