Wanting to fit a quickshift I obviously looked at the various suppliers ( I.E. known to us on this net) and must confess that I am no wiser!.
Most appear to be nothing more than a gearlever change only and from some of the photographs that Iv`e seen vary from nothing more than a bit of bent mild steel with a tube welded on to accept the original bush to a full blown Scoobyword quickshift, which appears to be a fully engineered shift mechanism at £225.42 inc vat, or is this a copy of the Prodrive one?
So question is chaps, what make did you fit ? How easy was it, and what is your opinion of the results? and of course the costs please.
Your opinions would be greatfully appreciated.
Ta Bob

 

I sat in a demonstrator car in a Subaru dealer showroom in Derbyshire that had a fully loaded MY01 that had this. The gearshift throw (ie first to second and third to fourth) was MUCH shorter than my MY99. It was almost like a switch. Whether this constitutes a £200 cost over the standard shift is very debatable, as I find the shift on my car suberb. All I will say is just try some other new cars and compare. I tried a Peugeot 206 GTI recently and the gear lever throw was comparable to a wooden spoon in a jam jar full of wood screws and the throw was awful.

 

Well I've just fitted one of the modified gear lever type short shift kits and it's not exactly made much of a difference...

I think that you'll find you need one of these modified pivot point gear levers and the modified linkage kit as well to make any significant changes from the MY98 and MY99 on type shift paterns.

So for my next trick...

 

The prodrive quickshift that came on my RB5 is a much nicer gearchange than in the std My99 IMHO

Andy

 

There is a similar thread to this,started by Blue.The general feeling seems to be people are happiest with BRDevelopments quickshift compared to other makes.

Steve

 

Thks for your comments all, much appreciated. The reason I posted the thread was that Power Engineering do one that looks a nice piece of kit but at £217 for a modded lever only I thought is a bit excessive when you consider the price of the fully engineered Prodrive one for not much more and I wondered which is the better value for money and with what results.
Bob

 

i've got a prodrive one which was about £200 fitted on my MY00.

its a vast improvement imho and worth the cash.

dont know wot the cheaper ones are like that u see advertised for less than £100?

steve

 

check on ebay they got one called teh robo shifter (yeh i know)

But ilt looks good, it has pivot points, you can make it lean where you want, and also adjust the hight of it, i think i saw it for $59 looks very good.

 

i fitted one from ggr onto my 97 scoob, didnt like, ive got a p1 now and the standard quickshift is great
mark

 

I fitted the BRD quickshift this weekend on my MY00, its a massive improvement over the standard. The shifting is much shorter and much more precise. All in it was £180, and took next to no time to fit.

 

THKS AGN Folks I carn`t find BRDevelopements on the web, anyone know what it is?
Ta Bob