The titanium shift knob in my '00 gets [i]hot[i]. During the summer, if I leave the top down in the sun (~100

 

lol, that sucks. I've had several cases of birds shitting on my car when the tops down, but thankfully never IN the car, just good luck i guess.

 

I LOVE reviving old threads and I can't help it in this case: this reminds me of last summer, I was at a LAN party at a friends house and I parked my RSX-S in his lot with the sunroof open, under clear skies! No trees within 15 feet. When I came out to the car after 6 hours of fragging, some lovely gigantic avian had dropped a huge white chunky bomb bulls-eye smack dab through my sunroof and all over my center console. I could not believe it, it was unreal. It looked as though 5 or 6 birds has been doing target practice or something, and they were all sharpshooters. I kid you not, it was an unusually large amount of bird shit! Coating my center console! I still can't believe it!

 

I have my stock Al shift knob right beside my monitor at work. It just helps to remind me that I'd really prefer to be driving!

Coral, that pdippel post is a riot!

 

A mole of aluminum weighs 26.981 grams.
A mole of titanium weighs 47.867 grams.
A mole of steel (iron) weighs 55.845 grams.

A given volume of titanium will be 77% heavier than the same volume of aluminum and 85% of the weight as the same volume of steel.

Titanium backpacking cookware is generally lighter than steel and about the same weight as aluminum. However, titanium is stronger than aluminum, so the titanium pots are stronger than the comparably light aluminum.

 

Between the two, I noticed the following..

1. Ti is darker in color, gunmetal vs silver if you will

2. Ti 6-speed pattern engraving appears much wider/deeper than aluminum knob pattern(classy)

3. Ti is more resistent to light scratchezs

4. For a good idea of the weight difference, hold a C battery in one hand and a AA in another where the C represents the Ti and the AA the Al..

5. Can't comment on warming/cooling?

6. 02 switch to leather wrap is nice, I bought both Al and Ti and now use the leather-mostly..

7. My countersunk gunmetal DCSports offers the quickest shifts though it requires slightly more attention to clutch manipulation.

 

Wow, almost a year exactly since I posted this.

Well, I love my Ti OEM shift knob. Still looks brand new (I've had it for over a year now). Compared to my 02 stock aluminum w/ leather, which after a year had the finish come off of it. So i'm so glad I got the Ti and got rid of the crap stock one.

 

FYI, the '03 leather wrapped knob has a steel liner inside that makes it almost as heavy as the titanium version.

'00 - '02 = 150 grams
'03 - '04 = 225 grams
Factory Titanium = 250 grams

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by s2ka
FYI, the '03 leather wrapped knob has a steel liner inside that makes it almost as heavy as the titanium version.