Each gear will snap into place with a nice positive click, and that vague feeling you get at the end of the stick travel will be gone. Kartboy's bushings fix this by using a much stiffer urethane to replace each one making the shifting experience much better than what you are used to. The problem this creates is a vague sloppy feeling in the fore/aft motion of the stick which just leaves you with a blah feeling when you shift the car. There are two hard mounting points for the shift lever assembly, and Subaru (for some unknown reason) decided to use really soft rubber for each one. The Kartboy Front and Rear Stay bushings replace the two soft rubber stay bushings that come stock on the car. All this with minimal NVH compared to stock. By replacing the shift linkage bushings with our much stiffer polyurethane bushings side to side slop will be minimized, packing out will no longer be a problem, and your shifts will snap into place with much more positive engagement. With the stock bushings the slop will get worse and worse until not only does it become almost impossible to find the gear you want, but also dangerous if you need to quickly pick a gear and shift into it. Over time the stock soft rubber bushings begin to "pack out" contributing to the problem of slop at the end of the stick. The TiC STi Shift Linkage Bushings replace the soft rubber bushings in the actual shift linkage joint. To understand how this works you have to understand what each part does. The TiC STi Shift Linkage Bushings, the Kartboy Front AND Rear Shifter Stay Bushing, the Kartboy Shifter Lever, and the NEW 6MT pivot bushings. So, here it is, the STi Super Shifter Set. With the introduction of the new Kartboy rear stay bushing Tony and I decided we needed to make a kit update. If your control rod/linkage core is dark green in color you need the 06 kit.
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