Deanski

I finally got to see the Oakley Sequential Gear shift system up close and personal in a new GT2. Nice GT2 too as it was getting Dymag carbon fiber wheels. This GT2 also had the CF rollbar in it as well. Super-sick looking car in black. Anyway, here's the link to the shifter below.

http://www.oakleydesign.eu/sequential-gear-shift

Nice system, higher than stock shifter. Better position for the hand as it comes off the wheel to shift. You'll see what I mean when you get behind the wheel and put your hand on this shifter.

A shop in CT now is an Oakley dealer/ distributor. Luck me, unlucky wallet in this economy.

So, it may not be PDK, but it sure is a nice way to have something sequential for us not going to PDK, but want sequential shifting.

Deanski

adfsouth

Pretty cool but you still need to use the clutch. I'm happy with my old-school manual but curious how much they charge for the semi-sequential unit. Interesting though.

dianic

I think that is what RUF is putting in the new CTR... Height seems the same, and overall look only the shaft that they use is solid and covered more by the boot. There was a writeup in the last 911 & Porsche world mag. Gorgeous car.

am722

So what's the point of this thing again? Aside from eliminating the possibility of a moneyshift (I'm assuming it at least does this), is it just supposed to look cool or something?

jrotsaert

It reduces the variable... probably no point when driving on the street but when i was racing, there was a huge difference in share of mind between driving a car with a sequential and one with an h pattern (GT3 cup and GT3 RS sequential).
Less to think about = less chance to screw up something important.
I personally would never have this in a street car... and having raced vs both Calum and Sean in the UK, I'm quite sure they got paid to say what is written
JM

DanH

Interestingly this unit was developed with Porsche and a 3rd party German company. Andreas Preuninger was involved as he is great friends with the owner of the other company and in fact had it fitted on his personal 996 RS. He is a big fan of the system and they were considering using it on the production cars. The reason they didn't is that adjustment and trim of the system is a specialist job and they can't fit parts to cars that may be difficult for a typical porsche technician to adjust.

Very interesting stuff I found out when talking to Andreas as the 997 GT3 mk2 launch at Silverstone. I have driven the oakley car and really liked the action, and given it has more provenance than I thought its much more attactive now. I had suspected it was built in a shed by a mad inventor - actually no!