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argonstrom
08-22-2015, 19:25
I need a shifter for my Busa similar to this:

http://i.imgur.com/uzYhZaC.jpg
ray1970
08-22-2015, 19:32
Is that a heel/toe shifter?
SideShow Bob
08-22-2015, 19:45
It looks as if it is a cast piece.

Trying to to mill some thing similar out of bar stock would be prohibitatively expensive. Buying the part would be cheaper.
crays
08-22-2015, 19:49
Is that a heel/toe shifter?


It looks as if it is a cast piece.

Trying to to mill some thing similar out of bar stock would be prohibitatively expensive. Buying the part would be cheaper.
If you have access to some (scrap) stock and the proper equipment, that's a pretty easy/cheap part to fab.

Finishing to match...Whole other issue.

ETA: the splines at the attach point will definitely add time and cost.
crays
08-22-2015, 19:54
And I'm just talking about the arm/lever, not the pegs and rubber (probably inexpensive stock parts anyway).
argonstrom
08-22-2015, 19:57
Is that a heel/toe shifter?

Yes sir.


It looks as if it is a cast piece.

Trying to to mill some thing similar out of bar stock would be prohibitatively expensive. Buying the part would be cheaper.

If it was available for retail purchase, I'd have have pluncked down my cash.
argonstrom
08-22-2015, 19:59
If you have access to some (scrap) stock and the proper equipment, that's a pretty easy/cheap part to fab.

Finishing to match...Whole other issue.

ETA: the splines at the attach point will definitely add time and cost.

With regard to the shifter, I'm all about function at this point.
SideShow Bob
08-22-2015, 20:10
Well here's your chance to corner a niche market, have a fab shop make you a dozen or so. Keep one and sell the rest. Yours will end up being free and you will have a nice wad of cash from selling the rest.......
2XS
08-22-2015, 20:58
To me it looks like the heel part of that shifter was added on to the stock shifter welded on smoothed out and powder coated. Looks like an easy part to fab with a water jet an TIG welder.
Great-Kazoo
08-22-2015, 22:38
What's the spline dia. and # of teeth? I have a beemer r1100rt (maybe) in the scrap pile. That's what it looks like to me.
SAnd
08-22-2015, 22:58
Where are you guys seeing a spline fitting? It looks like a push/pull link rod goes forward to the normal shifter. That would only take a threaded hole or a plain hole. The pivot point might have a pressed in bearing. The pivot hole looks like it may be wider than the arms. You could cut the arms out of flat plate and weld a cylinder piece in for the pivot.
Great-Kazoo
08-23-2015, 08:45
Where are you guys seeing a spline fitting? It looks like a push/pull link rod goes forward to the normal shifter. That would only take a threaded hole or a plain hole. The pivot point might have a pressed in bearing. The pivot hole looks like it may be wider than the arms. You could cut the arms out of flat plate and weld a cylinder piece in for the pivot.

That small lighter hole where the shifter rocks / is mounted on. It's how most mc's today work. Someone with a Tig could cut and rework another shifter. Either way fabricating something up isn't hard. It's the cost that determines what happens