MME Motorsport Sequential Shifter Review

Final thoughts on the Sequential shifter from the guys at MME Motorsports. Out of the box, this shifter presents as a professionally finished Sim Racing controller. Fit and finish are very good and consistent throughout the assembly. All machined parts are made from 7075 aluminum. Second only to 7078 aluminum when it comes to a stiffness rating. This results in a very solid feeling unit it hand and in use. As long as your mounting solution is up to the task. It has a brushed anodized finish on the casement in blue and a matte silver on the lever pieces. This coating is also applied on the internal shifter components. It comes with a carbon fiber shifting knob that has a thick clear coat finish. The shifter has an adjustable tension feature that allows you to dial in your preferred tension and lock it into place with the provided aluminum wrench. This shifter comes with a 5mm thick aluminum mounting plate that will provide a good, stiff platform to mount this unit. MME also offers a tandem mount that allows you to mount their Handbrake alongside the shifter at an angle that gives you a more ergonomic reach. This shifter uses a cam profile machined
into the bottom aluminum piece that provides a good notch feel when using the shifter as the shielded bearings rides in and out of this profile. The lever stop is provided by a pair of spring tensioned ball bearings. The entire assembly pivots on two more shielded bearings sitting on either side of the levers pivot point. The cam profile aluminum plate is also used to support the custom circuit board developed in house at MME. This board uses a Hall effects style sensor setup, which usually results in longer life cycles than a direct contact solution. In use, the shifter offered good tactile feedback using my mounting solution. The feel remained consistent during my driving sessions. You do get a sense of manipulating a sequential gearboxes selector
shaft, but not as mechanical feeling as the real thing. But most sequentials used in racing cars these days are shifted using pneumatic actuators on their mechanical linkages. So the driver
only feels what the shifter unit’s internals are designed to deliver. Over all, this is a very solid shifter that took my harder than average shifts without showing any signs of stress. A result of
this shifter’s design, materials used, and manufacture processes. MME has positioned this shifter at the higher end of available full sized sequential shifters. And expectations are set accordingly. I struggled to find any real things to complain about with this shifter. It got the job done in a solid, constant manner and never displayed any signs of weakness. Which is what really matters I think when is comes to using full sized Sim Racing Controllers.