[alfa] Re:Milano/75 Shifter

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kind of funny you mentioned that. I have a GTV-6 with a Milano linkage 
(modified for less play) in it. Somebody cut the standard shifter on my 
GTV-6 before I got it, and I always thought it to be real awkward to 
reach for 5th because it required me to rotate my right shoulder away 
from the seat back to reach for it. I ended-up making mine MUCH longer. 
I cut the Milano lever off right at the pivot ball, and grafted a 
chrome lever from a mid-seventies Spider onto it and capped it off with 
a large polished aluminum Momo ball shifter. Now the shifter knob is 
mere inches from the steering wheel (ala Ferrari Testa Rossa/SWB/GTO 
practice) just about three inches lower than the cross-spoke of the 
steering wheel. It's now EXACTLY where it needs to be for quick shifts 
when driving hard in the twisty bits as I don't have to reach for it at 
all, or keep my hands off the wheel for very long. I do not find the 
throws to be excessively long and everybody who's driven my car has 
agreed that this is how Alfa should have done it in the first place and 
it feels just right. I agree.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'



On Aug 23, 2004, at 10:26 PM, alfa-digest wrote:

>
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:24:12 EDT
> From: Aibrucia@domain.elided
> Subject: [alfa] Milano/75 Shifter
>
> Anyone out there cut there Milano's shifter down?  I've always been of 
>  the
> opinion its been too high and too long of a throw.  For example, when  
> i'm
> seated comfortably in the car otherwise 5th gear requires me to lean 
> forward  in
> the seat to engage.
> I thought cutting down the shifter might help.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Tony Brucia
> Long Island, NY
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