Sure, the slickshift gear in the foreground does not have the gear cone finished. That is the tapered cone in front of the gear that the synchronizer blocking ring slides onto to slow the gear down. You can see the cone on the shiny gear is nicely tapered. The gear cone in the foreground is unfinished. Also every other synchro tooth is missing on the gear as you can see compared to the shiny gear with all it's synchro teeth. The synchro teeth that are missing every other one match to a slider gear that fits over it with every other tooth missing on that too. This causes the gears to "crunch" together with all that slop instead of a nice smooth quiet synchronized shift. This works very well with full speedshifts going UP the gears, but you cannot downshift a slickshift manual.
