New Tap Shift lever coming up

[Fogey]

Worst case I waste some money and throw them away. I've done that before.

[Fogey]

Had that in a VW Passat for ten years. It pretty much sucked. The whole point of tapshifters is to have them on the wheel. Yeh, a Camaro is not an F1 car but it could take a little guidance from them.

[CFD]

Originally Posted by Fogey

Worst case I waste some money and throw them away. I've done that before.

Don't think it would come to that, B&M is a reputable company that makes high quality products, I have used many of their products in years past including shifters and tourqe converters, I am sure when they release these the quality will be equaly as good I was mentioning this as a response as to why it may be taking a while, taking a product from the prototype stage to a working unit for sale to the public is not as easy as some may think and it takes real world testing to ensure the product functions as intended.

[CFD]

Originally Posted by Fogey

Had that in a VW Passat for ten years. It pretty much sucked. The whole point of tapshifters is to have them on the wheel. Yeh, a Camaro is not an F1 car but it could take a little guidance from them.

It's a matter of personel prefference and driving style/needs. Nothing wrong with wanting them on the wheel it's just not my prefference.

[Fogey]

Truth be told, as much as I love my 2011 SS/RS I would much rather have a Ferrari (money issues LOL). If you have ever driven a modern Ferrari, or Maserati for that matter with a sequential manual gear box, IMHO you will never go back to a stick or anything that even looks like it. Part of the problem with the Camaro is the size of the steering wheel and the degrees of turn it takes to turn the wheels. Shrink the steering wheel, tighten up the steering and put paddles, not buttons on the steering wheels, and you have a poor mans supercar.
Once again, my apologies. It's guys like you making aftermarket parts that make Camaro ownership such fun.
Thanks

[CFD]

Originally Posted by Fogey

Truth be told, as much as I love my 2011 SS/RS I would much rather have a Ferrari (money issues LOL). If you have ever driven a modern Ferrari, or Maserati for that matter with a sequential manual gear box, IMHO you will never go back to a stick or anything that even looks like it. Part of the problem with the Camaro is the size of the steering wheel and the degrees of turn it takes to turn the wheels. Shrink the steering wheel, tighten up the steering and put paddles, not buttons on the steering wheels, and you have a poor mans supercar.
Once again, my apologies. It's guys like you making aftermarket parts that make Camaro ownership such fun.
Thanks

No apology necessary, you have every right to express your opinion, reading your response I can see why why driving tapshift on the shifter sucked it was in a vdub. I personaly like the tapshift on the shifter because after many years of driving manual high performance cars I find it to be a natural position for me, even today many cars are using some sort of tapshift, bumpshift etc on the shifter and equaly as many on the steering wheel/column, even my crewcab dually had it on the end of the steering column mounted shift lever.There are some who like both and have purchased my shifters and added toggle switches to use both methods. Everyone likes different things and that's cool, it's what makes the world go round. I as many here do agree that although the designers of the Camaro had good intensions they fell short in their designing of this feature in our cars but the aftermarket will make it all good, it just takes time to develop products so everyone has to be a little patient. The only reason my shifters came to market so fast is because I made it for myself and spent a lot of time on R&D before anyone had a chance to see them if I had intoduced my first prototype before a finished product everyone would be pissed at me for taking so long, products like these take a lot of work and refinement.

[Fogey]

I don't understand the shift on the wheel confusion issue. I have one left hand, it downshifts, and one right hand, it up shifts. Unless I'm driving my Camaro like a 15 wheeler, and sliding the steering wheel through my hands, where's the confusion? Even if my arms are completely crossed in a turn, my left hand still downshifts etc. I don't even think about the wheel position and where the buttons are. It's left hand/right hand.

[boltmark]

Originally Posted by montreal2010yellow

Can't wait to have some news about the new tap shift lever....

check this site. (Go at the video)
http://www.lsxtv.com/features/sema-c...nto-high-gear/

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WOW can they make them any bigger? You could sit in the back seat and use these. Ugly.

[CFD]

[Dan@BMRacing]

Originally Posted by MClarenF1

bump!
when are these coming out??

Originally Posted by MyIBMssRS

Are these ever coming out or did it fall through????

Originally Posted by hypurone

I called B&M the other day for shits and giggles and they said, "still in R&D"... Seems pretty simple to me. Can't see much R&D needed really, after you have a prototype....

You'd be surprised. If there isn't much R&D involved then any joe-blow can make them. On our initial round of test fitting late in 2010 we discovered that some issues that needed to be re-worked and it took longer than expected.

I drove a V6 with it installed today and let me just say, biased opinions or not, if you have an automatic and you like spirited driving, this is a MUST HAVE.

I'm contemplating opening up a pre-order list for those of you who do not want to wait for it to trickle through distribution. Maybe limit it to the first 20 to order or something so y'all can get it as soon as it rolls off of assembly line. Let me check in with the powers that be.

[JChen]

Originally Posted by Dan@BMRacing

You'd be surprised. If there isn't much R&D involved then any joe-blow can make them. On our initial round of test fitting late in 2010 we discovered that some issues that needed to be re-worked and it took longer than expected.

I drove a V6 with it installed today and let me just say, biased opinions or not, if you have an automatic and you like spirited driving, this is a MUST HAVE.

I'm contemplating opening up a pre-order list for those of you who do not want to wait for it to trickle through distribution. Maybe limit it to the first 20 to order or something so y'all can get it as soon as it rolls off of assembly line. Let me check in with the powers that be.

Count me in on that pre-order! PM me once you have more details, please.

[oldfriend]

Originally Posted by Dan@BMRacing

You'd be surprised. If there isn't much R&D involved then any joe-blow can make them. On our initial round of test fitting late in 2010 we discovered that some issues that needed to be re-worked and it took longer than expected.

I drove a V6 with it installed today and let me just say, biased opinions or not, if you have an automatic and you like spirited driving, this is a MUST HAVE.

I'm contemplating opening up a pre-order list for those of you who do not want to wait for it to trickle through distribution. Maybe limit it to the first 20 to order or something so y'all can get it as soon as it rolls off of assembly line. Let me check in with the powers that be.

Do you will still have to keep the OEM shifters [like on the pics ?

[tarheel34]

Let me know if you do a pre-order! I want in!

[gm2376]

Originally Posted by Dan@BMRacing

You'd be surprised. If there isn't much R&D involved then any joe-blow can make them. On our initial round of test fitting late in 2010 we discovered that some issues that needed to be re-worked and it took longer than expected.

I drove a V6 with it installed today and let me just say, biased opinions or not, if you have an automatic and you like spirited driving, this is a MUST HAVE.

I'm contemplating opening up a pre-order list for those of you who do not want to wait for it to trickle through distribution. Maybe limit it to the first 20 to order or something so y'all can get it as soon as it rolls off of assembly line. Let me check in with the powers that be.

im in on a preorder