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Originally Posted by OriginalBlackCi

Great vid. Very fast and I bet the car sounds even better in person. Do you still have the sequential Ikeya shifter?

I took it out near the end of last season. I could never get it adjusted correctly and Ikeya still has been no help it resolving it. When it works it's great but it's too finicky for me. We could never seem to find 3rd or Reverse. Reverse I could care less about, but 3rd is well used on track as you could tell in the video I just posted. I jacked around with it all last season and finally gave up and reinstalled the stock shifter which works great, just not as fast on the changes, which was one the reasons for the Ikeya in the first place. It's sitting in one of my garages collecting dust. It would come out of adjustment way too often for me. It makes a great $2800 paper weight though.

I'm sure if someone has the time and patience it would work correctly. Part of the problem might be that when my original shifter cables were replaced, the jam nut settings were never transferred over to the new cables so there is no baseline to start with on the location of the jam nuts and length of the swivels. Who knew!. It's got to be perfect and there were too many variables on adjusting both cables to get it just right. Just turning a nut a 1/2 turn would dramatically change things and I just ran out of patience with it as I wanted to get it on the track and not keep messing with it.

I contacted Shinoo @ Sector111 several times since last May (2007) and he never got any support from Ikeya and I imagine that is one of the reasons you won't find it for sale on their site any longer.

I am pretty sure I have figured out the problem and it's a rather easy engineering fix but Ikeya dropped the ball. When the cables move into 3rd there is about another 1/4" of throw that is needed for full engagement and that extra throw could be accomplished with a slightly larger radius cam in the mechanism. It's a simple cheap retro but they have done nothing to remedy the situation. Too bad because when it works it's awesome.