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Hrmph. Well, I'm not sure it's so minimal as to call it "an illusion", but cutting a shift lever down does change the distance you're moving the knob- it just doesn't change the distance the lower half of the shifter is moving whereas a true short shifter does. The effect of shortening the stick is the same as holding the stick closer to the pivot: just as making the shifter two feet long would make your hand travel a lot further per gearchange, making it shorter will reduce how far you have to move. But the shifter is still the same. When you use one of the kits to change the pivot point, the actual distance the knob moves is reduced although the stick is only slightly shorter than stock -which means it's not much further from the steering wheel than stock.
I still wonder what the big difference is between 1G and 2G shifters that no one has adapted the B&M to fit the 1G.
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