Looking for a shift knob thats weighted like the Skunk2 one but also wrapped in leather. A perfect leather wrapped one IMO is the Momo Race Air (also covered in aluminum), but its featherweight compared to the Skunk2 one. Anyone have something like that?

 

Any particular weight you're looking for? RAZO Has a few that are 240g and one that's 340g. The 340g (12 ounce) one looks pretty clean, too.

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P.S. The 240g, round one is the RA114 and the 340g is the RA-96A.

 

Don't have a particular weight in mind. The Skunk2 one feels great, they always advertise it as precision weighted to 440 grams, do know how much the Momo Race Air that I like weighs, but I would estimate around 80-100 grams

Pics, link or name of the Razo?

 

RAZO RA114 eBay $49.77 shipped.

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I have a skunk 2, it came on my car, I never knew it was that weighted lol.

 

^can somone explain to me the functionality of a weighted shift knob?

 

Weighted shift knobs make shift throws easier.

Think back to the playground on a see-saw. If you moved the lever point making one end short and another end long, you need a fat kid on the short end to move the skinny kid on the long end. But if you put the fat kid on the long end, it will move the short end even quicker. The knob end of our shifter makes moving the cabled end move easier.

 

^^thanks for the info! you learn something new everyday.

 

I also like to think of it like a pendulum in an old stand-up clock. The more weight you add further away from the swivel point, the more momentum is amplified.

For us 6MT owners (5AT don't apply, obviously), it means that a weighted shift knob placed further away from the shifter engagement point allows us to use less force to shift since the initial exerted energy is amplified by the "pendulum" effect.


I too have been looking for a leather-wrapped weighted but spherical shift knob (spherical is key). I currently have the MOMO Raceair knob, and while I do love the look and feel, these days I REALLY want a shift knob with a bit more substance. I talked to the guys at TWM Performance, and they told me they're working on a leather-wrapped version of their weighted spherical aluminum knob (which would be absolutely perfect), but they don't have an ETA on it yet.

 

The difference is negligible IMO.

 

I wonder if the force required to "lift" the knob counteracts the gain from the weight bringing it "down" to the desired gear. I understand the see-saw analogy, but that works for one round. If you're moving up and down on the see-saw (ie: switching the gears several times as you drive), the "fat" kid needs to use more energy to get himself off the ground...

 

What about this?
http://www.cardomain.com/item/RAZRA68

Ken

 

I love my Maven shift knob dearly. Before that I had a Skunk2. Weighted all the way.

Edit: the one linked in the post above mine looks like a johnson

 

The stock shift knob on the TSX is quite heavy. I had the Mugen New Style shift knob for a while but even it was in fact lighter than the stock one. However; now I have the skunk 2 knob which is considerably heavier than the already heavy stock TSX knob and love it! Makes the shifts much easier with the CT short shift adapter

 

It's basically to ensure that you get it into gear with relatively minimal force. I've had the shifter not fully engage on my brother's Integra so after hitting the gas again, it slipped out. Has happened to me in one of my Civics, too, but now if I'm driving a manual car, I just hold it in there.

Actually, the feel of the weighted knobs against your palm is a bit reassuring. I get the feeling like, "I'm in a solid car, not a toy that's going to fall apart at the first speed bump." While 200 grams really isn't much of a difference in weight, you can feel it when you're rowing through gears.

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Well, it is true of any weighted object. To get it into motion, there is more force required, but once you get it moving, its going to have the tendency to keep moving.... inertia. In our example of the see-saw, we are moving an object perpendicular to gravity, but with the shift knob, we are parallel to the force of gravity, so it is a little different. So the effort to push the shifter into first is roughly the same amount of force needed to pull it into 2nd and so forth. A heavier knob will take more force, but hey, we're talking about a 1 lb shift knob. It makes a difference IMO.