JCW Gear Shift Indicator

ooohhhhh, i want… look at all the pretty lights…

Last time I looked at the JCW site it wasn’t available outside the JCW’s garage. Glad to hear it is finally available in US.

This may be a stupid question but it for both manual and auto?

Oh yeah! I installed a heads-up display- type shift light in my old Suby, and found it extremely useful!

It allows you to avoid hitting the rev-limiter by an intuitive visual indication that you are nearing the ideal shift-point. On many cars, you can learn to recognize the engine sound as this engine speed is approached, but in my Suby (and to some degree in my MCS) it was difficult to hear it soon enough before the rev-limiter cut-in.

Even though the indicators may be farther away from the driver than the tachometer dial, the shift-lights are more obvious, and can be more easily “acquired” by the driver using peripheral vision.

My big question is: is the display characteristic programmable? I’d like to be able to set the ideal RPM, as well as the characteristic for sequencing the lights as the selected RPM is approached. (For example, set it so that the first LED lights when the revs are 300 RPM below the selcted point, the second LED when revs are 200 below the selected point, and the third at 100 RPM below the selected point.)

Dave

yes, it’s programmable in steps of 250 rpms

Far out mannnn!!!!!

Actually it would be better if it was integrated into the tach housing so it would be in you line of sight, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers!

Zeke: Sure, it’s worthless on the street most of the time. It’s worth its weight in gold on the track though, when your undivided attention to piloting the car and watching your line is required.

The only state in USA that radar detectors are illegal is Virginia and the District of Columbia but some cities don’t allow them. Now Radar jammers are illegal everywhere.

Thanks, but I think I’ll continue to use my ears and watch the tach rather than be distracted by more idiot lights. I’m just too old school, I guess. I’m also not a fan of paddle shifters; I prefer to row my gearbox with a lever just as Archimedes intended.

What’s next from JCW, neon rocker panel lights that change color as you go faster . . . :-)

Honestly, it looks like a cheap piece of plastic. A lot of the stuff coming out of the Cooper garage seems like it is meant to merely separate MINI owners from their cash. Give me something semi-useful at a reasonable price.

No worries RB… and for what it’s work I believe you are correct.

Wow, JCW Sounkit Deja-Vue, only the other way around. This bit of kit was axed over at Mini2.com, here everyone seems to think it is wonderful, except maybe for one or two comments. (Sound Kit was axed here as being too expensive and too little power gain).

OK, some more critisism. This already looks like a cheap piece of plastic on the official photograph (where usually, stuff that looks horrible IRL is made to look high quality and sturdy), so I dread the way this will look IRL. Also, as has been indicated before, the placement doesn’t make sense. With that said, it may be true it’s easier to pick up on this “from the corner of your eye” than it would be with a dial gauge, so the placement may not be too much of an issue..

I’d prefer something like this here. At that position you can at least see it directly and it is less intrusive as the JCW part is not a beauty. I saw it at the Frankfurt Motor Show and it’s a simple piece of plastic.

the mini shift light i so sic if your a racer