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Hello SportsMaserati folks
As many of you know the 4200 gear knob has been NLA for a number of years. When they were available the cost over around £450+VAT
Over the past year or so I have been on the hunt for a replacement gear shifter for my 4200. I found zero used shifters for sale and only one "new" wood finish shifter from old stock that Eurospares had and they wanted close to £800 for it. That is way too much so I have gone down the fabrication route... a kind forumer has leant me a mint shifter he was keeping on ice this has been submitted to an engineering company who is known by another forumer...
I appreciate that my proposal is currently a little vague until I have some renders from the 3D model the engineering company is working on but these are the instructions we gave the engineering company:
The objective is to maintain a stock/OEM look but with much better longevity than the leather wrapped gel stickered original item. This is what to expect:
Aluminium Proposal (sketch)
Cost estimate is £100-200/each + shipping. Obviously the more people on board for the first batch the cheaper the closer to £100 we can get.
Time scale for a renders will be 3 - 4 weeks at which point we will be ready to manufacture pretty quickly
Any questions let me know below
As many of you know the 4200 gear knob has been NLA for a number of years. When they were available the cost over around £450+VAT
Over the past year or so I have been on the hunt for a replacement gear shifter for my 4200. I found zero used shifters for sale and only one "new" wood finish shifter from old stock that Eurospares had and they wanted close to £800 for it. That is way too much so I have gone down the fabrication route... a kind forumer has leant me a mint shifter he was keeping on ice this has been submitted to an engineering company who is known by another forumer...
I appreciate that my proposal is currently a little vague until I have some renders from the 3D model the engineering company is working on but these are the instructions we gave the engineering company:
- Manufacture a pattern gearknob from aluminium using CNC mill
- Reverse lift must be the same
- Mounting to be compatible with D shaped shaft but a more simple solution than stock to avoid fitment problems between early/later models - details to follow
The objective is to maintain a stock/OEM look but with much better longevity than the leather wrapped gel stickered original item. This is what to expect:
- All aluminium (not leather)
- Same/similar shift gate pattern on the top
- Retain the horizontal seam in the leather that separates the top and sides of the leather wrapping the shifter by etching a channel into the aluminum in the same position
- Remove the vertical seam at the rear of the shifter where the leather meets so it is smooth there
- Instead of an oval gel sticker which will wear quickly we have asked for a trident releif to fill this entire space (see sketch below)
Aluminium Proposal (sketch)
Cost estimate is £100-200/each + shipping. Obviously the more people on board for the first batch the cheaper the closer to £100 we can get.
Time scale for a renders will be 3 - 4 weeks at which point we will be ready to manufacture pretty quickly
Any questions let me know below
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