Ricks Voodoo Shif Knob
Thread Starter
Registered User
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 53
Likes: 0
From: SanAntonio
Thanks for the help, I used threadlocker (blue) last night. Went out this morning and its ready to go. Will take pics when my Xmas present is mounted, GT3 with Goodyear F1 gs-d3.
Registered User
Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 446
Likes: 0
From: columbia, sc
Here's something I'm curious about....
trigeek, does your etched knob look like the one that portland has? The reason I ask is because I thought Rick had to stop putting the 's2000' logo on his stuff and instead had to use his own version of the logo. I love the look of portland's shifter, but I have a feeling that's the old style. I'm now picturing in my head a knob with the logo from his badges etched on top, where the shift pattern would normally be. I've been tempted to buy the etched voodoo knob from him, but he doesn't have a picture on his site of what it looks like. So, if you have pictures trigeek then please post them. Thanks.
trigeek, does your etched knob look like the one that portland has? The reason I ask is because I thought Rick had to stop putting the 's2000' logo on his stuff and instead had to use his own version of the logo. I love the look of portland's shifter, but I have a feeling that's the old style. I'm now picturing in my head a knob with the logo from his badges etched on top, where the shift pattern would normally be. I've been tempted to buy the etched voodoo knob from him, but he doesn't have a picture on his site of what it looks like. So, if you have pictures trigeek then please post them. Thanks.
Registered User
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 3,660
Likes: 2
From: Midlothian
[QUOTE]Originally posted by CoralDoc
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
.
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)
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
.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)
