Ricks Voodoo Shif Knob
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Ricks Voodoo Shif Knob
I just got my shift knob with the S2000 logo on it. When I put it on and screw it down tight the logo is Vertical not horizontal. Did anyone have this problem, and how did you fix it? Will lock tight hold it if it is not tightened down all the way.
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Did your knob come with directions? If they did, you must not have absorbed the material. You didn't think that the threads on the lever, the knob were perfected designed to center the logo did you?
First, the locking nut is not part of the install. Keep it with the OEM knob in a safe location.
The Voodoo knob is a deep offset - the threading goes way into the center of the knob. So the lower part will extend below the threaded part of the shift lever.
Obviously, you need a way to lock the knob when you have the thing centered where you want it, right? Without the locking nut, what possibly could be the mechanism?
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Yes, an adhesive! Get some threadlocker (blue) and apply it to the threads on the knob and the lever. Screw on the knob so that it is tightened all the way, and then back it off so the logo is centered. Leave it alone for a few hours hours to ensure the threadlocker has set up.
Bingo, done.
First, the locking nut is not part of the install. Keep it with the OEM knob in a safe location.
The Voodoo knob is a deep offset - the threading goes way into the center of the knob. So the lower part will extend below the threaded part of the shift lever.
Obviously, you need a way to lock the knob when you have the thing centered where you want it, right? Without the locking nut, what possibly could be the mechanism?
Pause. Waiting for answer......
Yes, an adhesive! Get some threadlocker (blue) and apply it to the threads on the knob and the lever. Screw on the knob so that it is tightened all the way, and then back it off so the logo is centered. Leave it alone for a few hours hours to ensure the threadlocker has set up.
Bingo, done.
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From: Davie, FL
I'm very happy with my Voodoo shift knob, purchased from Voodoo Bob himself long before Rick started carrying them. I chose the smooth pearl finish (no etchings), so I just crank mine down until it bottoms out on the shift lever shaft. This is superior, because the knob sits lower than all of the etched knobs that have to be backed off to get the etchings centered 
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The following shift knob-related essay was written by pdippel, a member of S2Ki at its inception. He posted this to the Honda-Acura.net website on 26 January, 2000. This used to be in the S2Ki library, but is gone now - just wanted to share it with everyone this holiday season. Enjoy!
In the expanding quest for ever more obsessive minutiae about the S2000, I humbly present: the comparative weights of the stock aluminum shift knob and the optional titanium shift knob. Having just received the titanium shift knob, I removed the aluminum one (not a one step procedure, but two, yet that is in and of itself a topic for a future post) and weighed them both on my wife's digital kitchen scale. For the sake of brevity, I will leave out the make, model and various atmospheric, gravitic and other influences on the scale, except to say that it has an accuracy of +/- 2.5 grams, and offer for your consideration the actual tested weight of these two particular specimens:
Aluminum knob: 150 grams (5.25 oz)
Titanium knob: 255 grams (9 oz)
This is a difference of almost 1/4 pound, an offensive amount that encumbers the HP:weight ratio of the S2000 by and additional 0.06%! It is quite clear, then, that installation of this optional knob would only be done by the shallowest of posers, dilettantes, even (yea verily shall I say it?) riceboys! After deep consideration of this empirically-based conclusion, and a close examination of my own morals and ethics, as well as those of the people whom I consider my friends and my business associates, and not leaving out the potential impact on my family and the reputation of my heirs, I felt I had no other choice than to....install it!
I know you are at this moment restraining yourself from clicking on "Post a Reply" to announce your resignation from this board, as you recoil in horror from the knowledge that you may have read previous posts from someone as vapid, degenerate and immoral as myself, but I urge you instead to channel your energies in a different direction, one that may offer me redemption and indeed may allow all of you to install the titanium shift knob and yet be free from moral apprehension or community approbation:
Go out and procure shift knobs from Boxsters (of the 2.5, 2.7 and 3.2 liter varieties), from M Roadsters, even from Corvettes, Elises and Caterham SuperSevens, procure them any way that you can, even in the dark of night, and send them to me. Send them to me and I will weigh them on the exact scale upon which I weighed the S2000 shift knobs, and we will see, no doubt, that Honda has planned ahead to rise supreme to even this trivial challenge, and save us from ignominy. For these non-S2000 shift knobs will be, I know it in my heart, heavier.
For God's sake, for my own and perhaps yours, do not delay!
.The following shift knob-related essay was written by pdippel, a member of S2Ki at its inception. He posted this to the Honda-Acura.net website on 26 January, 2000. This used to be in the S2Ki library, but is gone now - just wanted to share it with everyone this holiday season. Enjoy!
In the expanding quest for ever more obsessive minutiae about the S2000, I humbly present: the comparative weights of the stock aluminum shift knob and the optional titanium shift knob. Having just received the titanium shift knob, I removed the aluminum one (not a one step procedure, but two, yet that is in and of itself a topic for a future post) and weighed them both on my wife's digital kitchen scale. For the sake of brevity, I will leave out the make, model and various atmospheric, gravitic and other influences on the scale, except to say that it has an accuracy of +/- 2.5 grams, and offer for your consideration the actual tested weight of these two particular specimens:
Aluminum knob: 150 grams (5.25 oz)
Titanium knob: 255 grams (9 oz)
This is a difference of almost 1/4 pound, an offensive amount that encumbers the HP:weight ratio of the S2000 by and additional 0.06%! It is quite clear, then, that installation of this optional knob would only be done by the shallowest of posers, dilettantes, even (yea verily shall I say it?) riceboys! After deep consideration of this empirically-based conclusion, and a close examination of my own morals and ethics, as well as those of the people whom I consider my friends and my business associates, and not leaving out the potential impact on my family and the reputation of my heirs, I felt I had no other choice than to....install it!
I know you are at this moment restraining yourself from clicking on "Post a Reply" to announce your resignation from this board, as you recoil in horror from the knowledge that you may have read previous posts from someone as vapid, degenerate and immoral as myself, but I urge you instead to channel your energies in a different direction, one that may offer me redemption and indeed may allow all of you to install the titanium shift knob and yet be free from moral apprehension or community approbation:
Go out and procure shift knobs from Boxsters (of the 2.5, 2.7 and 3.2 liter varieties), from M Roadsters, even from Corvettes, Elises and Caterham SuperSevens, procure them any way that you can, even in the dark of night, and send them to me. Send them to me and I will weigh them on the exact scale upon which I weighed the S2000 shift knobs, and we will see, no doubt, that Honda has planned ahead to rise supreme to even this trivial challenge, and save us from ignominy. For these non-S2000 shift knobs will be, I know it in my heart, heavier.
For God's sake, for my own and perhaps yours, do not delay!
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Thanks, Portland. That looks sweet! Here's an odd question though...does it ever get uncomfortable to use if your hand's sweaty or wet from rain? I'm just wondering what it would be like to use in the summer when it's 95 degrees every day w/ 90% humidity.
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From: Cary
It works fine for me. Never had a problem with humidty/sweat. The only uncomfortable part is in the summer when the knob heats up to where you cant touch it (same thing happens to the OEM knob from 00/01).