Syncro Saver Customer Feedback
 

Now that we have had the product out there for a bit now I wanted to get some more feedback from more customers.

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Thanks Juan for the Great Video illustrating how wonderfully this works:)

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More orders shipped out.

Look Forward to seeing some more feedback in here

BCRX8 Received ours to Dans house. We will give feedback once they're installed :)

Driving review:
The shifting still feels as nice as it did before except now the positive stop gives nice feedback and a precise feel without the worry of overextending. I really like it driving through town. It goes in and goes no further just as advertised. the pictures and instructions are straightforward. I was already comfortable with what I was going to do ahead of time though since I've taken out my shifter and stereo before so I had an advantage. the pictures were definitely helpful and well done.

Fluid turned around my shipment quickly and followed up with an email with the instructions before my part arrived.

I have a question.... does this work with short shifter?

What happened to the video?

haha I think Juan is running out of things to buy...

Yes....

As stated previously Yes it does, it will work with any shifter. OEM or Short Shifter.

Fixed.

Nah...never

I got some more he is going to go nuts for :)

awesome part, defenitely need to get my hands on this

I finally got some time to install this! The installation was pretty simple and straight forward. If you already know how to pop the center console cover off and remove the boots then it will only take you about 5 minutes.

Anyways... My first impression when driving was how amazing it felt going through the gears 1-4 and even downshifting. The shifts seem to be a lot more precise than before because I can just downshift with ease and tap the shift plate. I can literally feel that the shifter is tapping the plate by the clicking noise, so I dont have to worry about over shifting at all.

I currently have the AFE short shifter and the inner shift boot installed (which I believe is optional). What I noticed was that the inner shift boot causes the shifts to be less notchier if you have the AFE short shifter (for those who have the AFE shifter knows what I mean because the short shifter tends to be a little notchier and stiffer than oem).

Overall I am impressed with the results and I will try to remove the inner boot to see how that would feel.

Glad the people that have them are enjoying them!

:)

you realize a short shifter has less leverage right??.... which is why the shift is shorter and requires more effort right??

:eyetwitch

Does this car on the video have Turbo or Supercharger, sounds pretty interesting.

Hmm, I'm not so sure about that 'clicking'. I think that will drive me nuts after awhile.

Over shifting is shifter travel greater than required to engage the gear which can cause serious damage to internal transmission components such as synchronizers, clutch hubs (which contact the synchronizer) or the shift forks. From the drivers seat this seems very slight but the clearances inside the transmission are measured it thousandths of an inch! In other words, a little extra movement in the shifter is eliminating the required clearances inside the transmission.


I'd really love to hear the explanation on this.... really :eyetwitch

Juan has the Pettit SC

What if we have the Axial Flow Shortshifter?

answered in OP....

I wonder if I can add a little 1/8" felt or foam adhesive just around the edges to minimize some of the clicking if it gets too annoying, but I could def see the benefit of having this.


Ok, so I just ordered mine. Tasks to complete this weekend:

Shifter Boot
AxialFlow SS
Ipod Adapter
Synchro Savers


Next week or so: New exhaust

Next month or so: AP

if you don't have this product setup correctly, it WILL hose your tranny. If your adding stuff to silence the sound, MAKE SURE THE SHIFTER STILL HAS THE FULL RANGE OF TRAVEL

BTW - i'd still love a mechanical explanation of how this is saving the syncros...

i was wondering about this product when i saw it on your website, i wanted to purchase it but wondered how well it works and it looks like i'll be getting this item soon :)

Duly noted.

may i just ask what it is you believe this will do for you?

^ :dunno:save your synchros?

I suggest you read on how a synchro gets wear in the first place - Its from a) doing its job and )synchronizing shaft speeds in your tranny going from one gear to another, or b) from abnormal wear and not having full engagement.

I'd really reallly realllly love to hear how you over engage a synchro and how that mythical thing can cause wear to it...

i was answering a question. i suggest you learn to follow a discussion.

i.e., i didn't take stance on the issue. i merely read the name "sychrosavers" and suggested in response to you that those who have them believe the sychrosaver saves sychros.

i understand you have a different opinion. that's interesting.

I only suggest people to fully understand the issues they are trying to solve and what a product is actually doing

i take no issue with that motive, my friend.

I know nothing of transmissions, but I was kinda wondering the same thing r0tor is talking about... I just assumed it was my lack of knowledge of transmissions and it's guts... I'm glad he brought up this question.

Well any good trans shop will replace all of the synchros as standard in any manual trans rebuild, so in the sense this will help minimize trans blow ups it will then also save the synchros .... :eyetwitch

ask me how I know about Rx-8 trans failures :uhh: :icon_no2:

I'm beginning to lean more your way...oh well, I've already bought the darn thing and it's on it's way. I hope someone from Fluid responds to this thread..

If it's a thousands of an inch clearance inside the transmission how do we know that this will do exactly the right thing for our car? There's a different clearance on these parts from car to car also around the shifter itself.

Gotta agree with r0tor and wait for an explanation.

That is another horrible marketing ploy.

The clearance of any good gear set is measured inthe thousands of an inch. Movement of the gears in the tranny is controlled to tolerances in the thousands of an inch.

... However, the slop in the shifter mechanism is 200x more then that a thousandths of an inch...

A little bit more info on why syncros fail. Just a post from another board somewhere:


Originally Posted by Terry Haines
Why do syncros wear out?

The syncro is a mini-cone clutch. as you change up the gears it starts to engage with the next gear you are going into before the 'cogs' mate....for example say you are in 2nd gear and second gear is spinning at 4000 rpm and you want to shift without a 'crunch'...the syncro on 3rd gear has to spin up 3rd gear to 4000rpm also to 'syncronise' the gear speeds...it does this with the cone clutch 'blocker rings' all in the space of time it takes to move the stick out of 2nd and towards 3rd....it works damn hard

why does it wear?

if you go over the normal revs for a gear and the engine speed is higher the syncro has to work harder to speed up the next gear. in the same time it wears more in this situation.

OK but what about downshift?

Same rule applies, if you are in 5th at 3000rpm and want to shift to a lower gear the syncro has to do the same job in reverse on 4th gear....unless you can 'double de-clutch' on down shifts,in which case YOU are setting the speed of the next lower gear to syncronise the 'cogs' without a crunch...saves a lot of sycro wear if you can double de-clutch'.

Why do the diffs fail?

The V6 is a bit over on power for the MTX75 trans. for example diff components are the same for an MTX in a Zetec as they are in a V6!..as its an 'open' diff the planet and side gears take a lot of 'shock' loads in say wheelspin and 'wheel hop' situations and can break very easy or worse send the gears or parts of the diff thru the gear casing...best cure is to have a Quaife or Torsen diff fitted.

Why did my gears jam or get stuck in one gear?

On the cable shift boxes prior to 2000 the 'tower' on top of the trans was/is prone to 'jumping the gate' and not pulling one gear out of engagement before trying to select another,this causes the 'jammed in gear' problem.

Total loss of all gears is usually a pinch bolt that holds the main vertical selector shaft to the selector arm. it breaks off and all gears are lost...worse case is it breaks off and the bolt head drops into the trans, gets wedged between a gear and the ally case and is punched thru the case!...

So whats the fix?...Fit either a better designed post 2000 Contour or Focus tower assy......

'How much will the parts be to repair my bad syncro?????

Depends how many 'parts' of the sycro are shot and which gear.Blocker rings (the 'brass') is the first parts that wear out,as can the syncro hub itself.Some
gears have a combined 'blocker' assy,that is two blockers for each gear Vs one on some of the other gears.Between the double blocker gears is a steel cone...just a tapered ring of steel...it wears aswell but not as much as 'the brass'...cost of just the 'cone'...over $45....that is just one piece of many that makes up the syncro assy's.....Just a thought when you 'power shifting'....better wrap the gear stick with $100 bills!...

That's why syncros wear, but it's not why we should worry about syncro wear in the gear shift itself. Do people in general slam the gearshifter through the cubbybox or what? :P

I have a feeling the positive feedback here is all due to the added feedback of the shifter stopping "harder". If it actually makes a difference internally I have not found out.

I know, I was putting that out there for (me) and others that don't/didn't understand how syncros are worn out. That's all.

To clear up the confusion here,

This product stops the driver from forcing the shift lever past the point where the transmission is already in gear. During overshifting the synchronizer is forced farther on the hub than required for proper operation. This actually attempts to stretch the synchronizer cone over the hub which can distort the soft synchronizer changing the clearances and eventually may cause the synchronizer to actually break. Over shifting has caused synchronizer problems in transmissions for years, not just in Mazda automobiles but across a wide range of vehicles. If you look at many aftermarket shifters (for domestic vehicles) this is why they have shifter stops incorporated into them.

BTW, this product was referred to as a “shift gate” which it is clearly not and is designed for a different purpose.

yep, the reason 3rd was grinding before my last rebuild

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I am gonna have to buy one of these....

darn you!

darn you to heck for having cool stuff Brice! *waves angry fist*

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You are going to hate me next month , save your pennies this one is good and no it isnt anything with Ignition....:)

oh crap...I'm screwed.

Really? :Eyecrazy: $140? :Eyecrazy: For a couple pieces of metal?

No offense, but that's ridiculous. Just because it's a good idea doesn't mean you should rip people off for it.

^rofl...douchewaffle...
nobody's holding a gun to your head to buy these

go fab up your own then
140 won't sound too bad after that

Mine is on the way. Can't wait.

I'm thinking if you already have a SS, you probably wouldn't need this thing. I just installed my AxialFlow last night...that thing is very tight and precise. It's not moving any further. I might try to sell mine.

I will give you 100 bucks for it.

I have a SS on mine as well, it feels like it is secure into place and won't move but there is still shifter travel it is just now less noticeable.

i guess the only real way to find out if this product work is to wait and see....