Looking for some advice on shifters. I have 560HP 68 Dart. Using the stock shifter and looking to upgrade. What do like & why.
The E-body slap stik was my favorite auto factory shifterDo you have a factory console in the car? is it reverse manual or forward shift? If it has a console and forward shift find a 70 e-body slap stick and install your shifter handle . It would look factory but be a slap stick.
had a b-m pro ratchet in my 600 horse vega and hated it !!!For a primarily strip car, I like the B&M pro ratchet too. I have two, and I like em. Some people don't like to deal with the ratchet only action, and reverse lockout mandated by nhra. And they have doubled in price since the last one I bought..
For a street/strip, I always recommend a Winters sidewinder. They are bulky, but they are bulletproof. They are a gate style shifter, they have been around for fifty years at least, they are cable rear entry, to keep it away from header heat, come with a console, unlike the turbo action cheetah. They are a specific to 727/904, unlike a fits-all shifter, available in forward or reverse pattern.
A Winters is basically almost the same shifter as a cheetah...... only almost $300 cheaper, and just as quality.
To each his own. Thats maybe why there is more than one shifter available, lol.I
had a b-m pro ratchet in my 600 horse vega and hated it !!!
turbo action cheeta in my barracuda , takes some getting use to , but like it ...moved back 5'' in the stock console ..
To each his own. Thats maybe why there is more than one shifter available, lol.
I had a cheetah in my car too. Driver error was too easy, rmvb too easy to go 1,3,2,3. Moved the cheetah into my powerglide car, put in a ratchet, never missed 2nd gear again.
Edit. Had to change the top plate for glide use on the cheetah. No big deal. I have the switch console in the glide car too, use most of the switches and the start button.
Thats exactly how its supposed to work, and if I concentrated on NOT pulling on the handle for the one-two, it performed flawlessly. Tap down, or push right and down, perfect. Unfortunately, I wasn't flawless. The ratchet defeated my incompetence.I have found with my Cheetah, when I launch the car I just have my hand just above the shifter, and merely tap it, goes into second, then I put my hand on it and pull it into third.
don’t have any issues like that at all. The features and switch( es) offsets any negatives.
like anything else, just involves having a routine. I try and do the exact same thing every lap, that said, sometimes I still suck…lol
Exactly. I have one of these entry level Kwik-Shift II (PPP) versions. Excellent, solid, quality piece:To each his own
Great shifter, but what $7-800 bucks? I like my ratchet, and it cost $200 when I bought it. My cheetah was about $275. Both have doubled in price since. Makes that PPP look a little better.Exactly. I have one of these entry level Kwik-Shift II (PPP) versions. Excellent, solid, quality piece:
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Not that much actually, still reasonably priced, but you do have to add $90 for the shift lever and cable bracket (mounts on pan rail) and whatever cable needed for about another $70 so all in that version is under $500.Great shifter, but what $7-800 bucks? I like my ratchet, and it cost $200 when I bought it. My cheetah was about $275. Both have doubled in price since. Makes that PPP look a little better.