Do you prefer a heavy shift knob?

I've guessed that you want to shift through the gears faster. Does the term "Synchronizing" mean anything? What you'll need is a shorter shifter shaft. When I was in your age, I remove the shifter shaft and have my brother machine shop shortened it and put the stock knob back on.

Are you rev matching on your shifts? By that, I mean give enough throttle while the clutch pedal is depressed to get the engine to the correct speed for the new gear.

There are two ways to shift a manual silky smooth -- either you rev match with the throttle (the preferred way) or you let the clutch pedal out really slow (rev match with the clutch -- which causes excessive clutch wear).

If you rev match well, a passenger in your car won't be able to feel the clutch re-engage. If the clutch re-engagement can be felt by the occupants of the vehicle, the revs weren't matched well enough.

One other thing to do: Try holding the shift knob with just three fingers and pretend that it's an egg. Slamming the gear selector around with a lot of force is not the way to go.

Specially with a "Heavier knob" and the way you shift by trying to make the transmission go into the next gear faster other than synchronizing properly like other people said: It'll destroy either the clutch or mess up the internal gears quicker that you thought. HTH

Heavy Shift Knob

I always fit lighter, and I always trim all I can off a car when I own it - Colin Chapman founded the Lotus sports car company, and his motto was "Add Lightness" - meaning that you first question IF you actually need it, and then if you do add a part or system to a car, you make it as light, small and simple as you can. He even baulked at fitting washers under nut and bolt heads, asking "Why would anyone want to drive a washer around a race-track?" - junking washers may not SOUND like it saves a lot, but putting this "Trim, Trim and Trim Again" fine-tooth-comb philosophy on a car can transform it, when you have gone front to back and top to bottom.

It should shift at the touch of a finger anyway.

The heavy know only damages the shift mechanism and gives nothing to the shifting.

Keep it stock.

its a damn good way to destroy a shifter. little bro had to have that huge cobra head. ended up ripping the shifter off the trans. i installed bigger stronger bolts, he destroyed the shift gate inside the trans.