You are probably referring to the shifter cable bushings. The main reasons why people have broken cables is that they replace the oem shifter cable bushing with all metal ones. This leads to less play with the cable and eventually leads to it breaking prematurely. Hybrid racing are considered...
If for whatever reason you don't like the buddy club short shifter either, the other choices you have is the bps or twm short shifter. I also heard that ktuned might release a shifter for us, but take that with a grain of salt