Shifter style preference

[LemonWedge]

Ratchet shifter or Gated shifter and why?

Additional if you feel stongly: Exactly which model?

GO!

 

[Aron Gleason]

I've heard a winters shifters is good for precision shifts.

 

[RemCharger]

PPP with the air shifter! Is what I would do. I currently have a B&M Pro Ratchet which I'm very happy with, but the next step would be the PPP

 

[33 IMP]

I had a cheetah in my 62 savoy. Bullet proof (likewise the winters) but not idiot-proof (me).
Too many 1-3-2-3 passes to suit me, so I modded the cheetah for a forward pattern glide, and put it in my Tina. Functioned perfectly in that application.
Put a B&M pro ratchet in the 62, love it, put another in my Opel.
The ratchet works with the forward pattern or reverse. I'll still be able to use it when I put in the reverse pattern transbrake trans.
Air shifter would be great on the strip, but I think a pia in a street car. Contrary opinions welcome, I've never tried one.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

I'll never give up my pushbutton shifter

 

[33 IMP]

I've heard a winters shifters is good for precision shifts.

Winters is a great shifter, wouldn't hesitate to use one in a street car, but I tend to make too many mistakes in a race application with a gated shifter. But that's just me. (And a Winters is at least $100 cheaper than the essentially same Cheetah.)

 

[Budnicks]

for my last few cars street strip stuff drivers
I used Quicksilver B&M shifters, my old silver 68 RR RM23
that went 8.50s on N2O, had a Quicksilver in it too, never any issues
worked fine

I have one on the shelf brand new in a box, for someday
if I ever do the manual Cheetah Valve-body rear band apply in my car
I have sitting on the shelf too

a Pro-Stick is more 'race related' (B&M too) easy to use lock out lever too
depends on personal preferences, forward or reverse valve body needed