wtk. important quest re: gearbox gear signal

[undercover]

trying to find out something.
is there a way to get an electrical signal for specific gear positions in a manual vehicle?
i know there is the reverse signal wire for the gearbox, but is it possible to get a signal for the other gears?
if it is possible, whats the procedure?

[megadoc1]

i want to know tooo

[Anton]

If this for thew purpose of installing a remote start system, take a look at this product
http://cgi.ebay.com/DEI-689...m?IMSfp=TL0807161596r9046

[undercover]

no it is not. it is for installing a gear position indicator

[bushwakka]

^^that's a nice idea, where'd u get the indicator from tho? it'll hav to be almost an auxiliary gauge on the side of the dashboard i'm guessing tho right?

[undercover]

using the automatic indictors from an almera dash, just changing the numbers

[wagonrunner]

it's possible, but would require you wiring indiviual circuits, for each gear position. I thought about doing it, but wasnt bored enough to complete.

pm zodiaque, he could tell you what you need to start.

[undercover]

wagonrunner- you talkin about using a bracket around the shifter and putting the circuits there

[wagonrunner]

yup, gear lever will be used to close the circuit

[megadoc1]

what about a magnetic circuit?

[*KRONIK*]

a buddy of mine did this on his 101 corolla

he only did it for R........ N and D(at any foward gear position)

too bad he sold it.......

used to look good though

[undercover]

i figure the magnetic circuit mite be better. the challenge is when the gear positions so close. hmm. so there's no other way to do this from the engine/gearbox side?

[turbohead]

i was tinkin along those same line there wagonrunner...with the shifter.but dat wud work for fwd wat about shifters dat in the box like rb an sr an stuff....interesting thread

[Hook]

it doesn't matter where the shifter is mounted really

if a finisher plate is made with grooves for each gear lever position (like a "double H" groove pattern is cut out of the finisher plate like in some euro 5spd shifters), and some microswitches are placed at the tops of these positions with each switch triggering a single LED, a simple harness can be made to connect the switching circuit to a gear position indicator on the dash

it will be permanently mounted on the centre consol at the shifter position and u have the option of either painting it really nice to compliment the interior or covering it up with a shifter boot

if you desire to go even more "hi-tech", you can use the switched inputs to trigger a display on a single 7-LED digital counter, so that it runs the gears 0(N)-1-2-3-4-5-R...
that way u have an actual numerical representation of the gear position and u only need to find space for one small digital display module instead of for 6 individual LEDs or modifying your instrument cluster wiring

[cinco]

here is my idea
get some switches like these
simply push button switches when pushed in will close the circuit
build an adapter plate and put it around the shifter to that it indicates each position
get something like this

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and wire each switch to an led
1 would light the first led 2 would light the first 2 and so on and r would light the whole strip
it really should not be hard the hardest part may be making the adapter plate

[Hook]

^^^ that would be a bit bulky to install...and it'd look real Knight Rider-ish

mine would be the same way with the miniswiches and the finisher plate, except that the output would either be used to drive a single LED per gear mounted in the instrument cluster
it's similar to Automatic transmissions with the "L-1-D-N-R-P"
if an A/T to M/T conversion was done, that would make things much easier...all u hafta do is run the wires to the shifter and modify the instrument cluster to show numbers instead of "L" and "D" et al

OR

the outputs can be used to drive a single 7-segment digital display that gives the actual number of the gear...the smaller one to this nuh


the electronics can be mounted under the dash somewhere and the display can be assembled onto either the factory instrumnt cluster or maybe a 2 1/16" circular plexi so that it can be mounted in a gauge pod on the A-pillar or something

[cinco]

it is a bit bulky
not what i would do but just giving as a suggestion as to how easy it can be

[Hook]

well yeah, I catch your drift....this would make a nice project tho....simple stuff

[*KRONIK*]

any volunteers??

i would really like to see something like this in someone's car

[DJ Nexxus]

instead of switches you could use these instead, they are small enough and can be adjusted to only detect the shift lever.