Things you did/upgraded that surprised you how helpful they were

I'm a street car with aspirations of decent strip times. Im mostly having fun really. My favorite 2 surprise upgrades so far....

1) eliminating the vacuum advance and backing off my street timing a few degrees.

2) and this homemade thing has saved my *** every time I go for 3rd in the thick of it....

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Thats funny! I went second to neutral once and said nope! No more of that! I made a hook under the console that hooked onto the shifter arm. It wouldn’t let it go to neutral. The other end of the hook was under the ash tray. A little latch in the ash tray would hold the hook up until I needed it. Worked great, for a couple of years. Now RMVB.