[V8Vairs] Response to Kelmark Conversion ?

[Steve Semon]

pWith the stock transmission there are two plains of movement, fore and aft, and side to side. I ran the stock shifter to the rear of the access panel, and then used two of the marine cables for the movements to get the connections to the rear of the car.  The fore-aft movement is as tight as a direct connect shifter, but the side-to-side movement is rather loose due to the slopyness of the marine cable.  I am in the process of trying a connection simuliar to my clutch hookup for the side-to-side.  There is one advantage to a sloppy shifter; speed and power shifting are very hard to accomplish, which saves the weak parts...

Steve Semon
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Steve at Centralcomm.net





---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: PatioMatt at aol.com
Reply-To: v8vairs at corvair.org
Date:  Wed, 11 May 2005 23:32:18 EDT

>In a message dated 5/11/2005 1:49:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>VairKing at hotmail.com writes:
>
>> so I am convinced the only way to cure it is to install a big car saganaw 
>> side cover and run an aftermarket shifter (B and M, Hurst, etc.) and use 
>> marine cables to control it.  Talking with Rick at the performance workshop 
>> he was talking to me about a source for these marine cables, maybe he will 
>> chime in and enlighten us, as I have forgotten.  I will be doing this mod to 
>> 
>> my V8VAIR before Iowa...
>> 
>******************************************************************************
>
>Ryan..those are MORSE  cables...available at ANY  Boat / NAPA  
>store...approx. $30  for a 5 ft cable....ends are 10x32[?]    BUT
>
>It's a VEGA  box......and I've seen only Kelmarks with long rods / bellcranks 
>to actuate the arms..
>
>Matt
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