4 speed ka-booom !

As to the brass forks? I've run them from 1970 to 1985, and again from1999 to 2005. So that's a total of 21 years or so( no drag racing to speak of), and during those,mostly city miles, I've never broken one. I bought a Passon side cover in about 2005. I think that's a steel fork cover, so since then I've been running the steels. The steels have a nicer interlock and a more powerful in-gear detent.Plus they are easy to braze up, if you are lazy in repairing a deceleration jump-out condition.
I think I would switch if I was gonna track it a lot, just for the insurance. I have no idea what kind of damage a broken brass fork can do, and I wouldn't want to find out. Plus if you drove it to the track, getting home will be a b.....ch!

I bought a v-gate and have been looking for someone who has the bracket so I can get a copy on a piece of paper.
have you been holding out on me?
I didn't see you were looking. But it wouldn't mater cuz I built my own, on account of I moved my shifter waaay back to between the buckets. I have a GearVender unit which mounts on the non-A-body rear extension, so I took advantage of the rear shifter mount.I also raised it up pretty high. I'm running a short-stick shifter.Some guys laugh at where my shifter is, until they try to find the shift gaps in the long,fat,black,street blackies ! Heehee.
What they don't know is that the little red button that is recessed into the shift ball, controls the GV, which I use as a splitter. The car goes 93 in the 1/8. The tranny has a 3.09 low/1.92 second. The splitter gives me 2 ratios; 2.41 and 1.50. If I run 3.91s, It'll trap at 6600ish in 2nd over. That's exactly one stick shift and 2 electric splits. With rpm drops about 78%, the powerband only needs to be about 1400 or so. And since the engine is sitting at max power for most of those Rs, it doesn't take much of a cam. It's kinda like a 2-stroke Snowmobile clutch. A 232* fast rate gets it done.I ran 4 passes that one and only time.Only one pass was sorta good. On two passes the shifter hung up. On another pass the tack stuck on 7200 or so all the way.The starter guy came over on the last pass and suggested I lower the pressures in the DRs, cuz it was boiling the hides the whole way.Sheesh, guess that explains the tack stuck on 7200! For the last and only successful pass, I drove it like a granny. Babied it off the line, hung back, hit the splitter and nailed it.The ET sucked But the MPH told me what I wanted to know.