Sequential shifters that are hand-operated are a WOFTAM .... UNLESS you are in a race car, equipped with a dog-box (dog-engagement rather than syncro) - you are better of getting a AT7 and playing with the paddles - the ONLY thing a H-pattern to sequential shifter on a Z34 would give you is bling/bragging rights.
Some folks might think that is reason enough, and good luck to them.
My race car (not a Nissan) has a Holinger H-pattern dog box and it works just fine, albeit that I have ordered the sequential shifter upgrade so I can flat change AND because I need to avoid a wrong-slot which H-patterns are prone to.
Since I upgraded the engine to full ECU control for last seasons, and picked up ~100bhp (went E85 and 14:1 compression at the same time), flat-changes on the way up the box becomes necessary as I am chasing GT3 machinery and they all have either sequential stick OR paddle shifters and this is worth a bit less than a tenth per change and that means a lot to me - equates to (relatively) cheap lap-time improvement.
If you want one, get it, but it only delivers Bling/Bragging rights.
RB
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