Anyone Have Experience with the S1 Sequential Shifter Conversion?

(S1, oops on the title)

This looks pretty awesome!  Anyone here driven with one or done the install?

S1 Sequential Shifter

So... you're paying $1600 to just yank the shifter, you still have to use the clutch, and now there's a bunch of complicated stuff in the shifter mechanism that can go wrong?  Seems unnecessary and sort of pointless, I'd rather throw the money at a dog ring gearset or a fancy clutch/flywheel or something if you want to shift faster.

This would have to be on top of a dog gear set and strain gauge/shift cut knob. 

You know, I think a coworker has one (or something similar) on his V8 hillclimb Miata. T56 with faced gears so they can shift without the clutch. They can really hustle that thing through the gears. There's a shift at 3:15 at least.

Weird.  I was unable to post all day from my phone yesterday.  I posted the same question in the LS swapped BMW facebook group.  There are several people who have it and love it.  One guy who says it ate his syncros, and several people who don't have any experience with it and say its junk.  meh.  pretty damn expensive.  Its really cool, in theory, in my head.  The sequential shifter in my Yamaha YXZ is freakin awesome, would be cool to have something similar in my e36, but it sounds like this is not it (at least not without extensive internal trans work).

In reply to Lof8 - Andy :

The YXZ is awesome because it's a real sequential box- that magic doesn't live in the shifter.  If you want something close to that you're probably better off saving the money this shifter costs and going hunting for a damaged sequential box to fix, or finding a used Jerico which will still have an H-pattern but let you shift without the clutch.

I have one on the T-56 in my Exocet. I like how it shifts and if you have the transmission faceplated it's a cheaper solution compared to something like a 6xd. Even in a box with syncro's it's fun. It's all in what you want for your car.

If you have dogs/faceplate I can see it being an advantage (assuming rules allow non H pattern) and I like that it may prevent unintentional downshifts if setup right (1-2-1 feels scary).