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

 

[dvw]

Of course I love push buttons. Second choice is the B&M Quick silver in my street car. Works flawless.
Doug

 

[Tex013]

B&M proratchet for mine . Never a missed gear no mucking around to access reverse / park . Mate has a gate Hurst I dont like changing how i shift between gears ie pulling trigger for 1 shift but not other . Fitted a M&M in another mates Chev , real nice bit of kit works clean especially with air shift . . Not sure they do a mopar
A rear cable entry race shifter would be great , to rear of transmission , to avoid headers . I think there was one but cant remember may have only been for forward pattern ?
A ratchet cannot overshift/miss a gear , 1- 3 .Unless wildly out of adjustment .
Oh yeah i had a Hurst ratchet years ago but every now and then it would just go out of adjustment , no idea why .
IMP air shift is no issue on street at all

Tex

 

[fourgearsavoy]

I prefer a V-gate for my race box and a Supershifter for my street box

 

[fullmetaljacket]

Reverse pattern column shift ala A990.
I think the OP wanted to hear about the ratchet or gated, but we all got carried away with our biases. LOL.
Here goes: I always loved my street super shifter when I had three pedals underneath.
Someday again, someday again.

 

[Jeff Peterson]

 

[33 IMP]

I had a Mr Gasket vertical gate. Great Race shifter, not so great street shifter (in my opinion)
I much preferred my competition plus Hurst. Sometimes with a knob, sometimes a T-handle.
I made a couple pistol grips for my pro ratchets.

 

[LemonWedge]

Reverse pattern column shift ala A990.
I think the OP wanted to hear about the ratchet or gated, but we all got carried away with our biases. LOL.
Here goes: I always loved my street super shifter when I had three pedals underneath.
Someday again, someday again.

Interested in all opinions & hardware FMJ, especially yours. I did notice from pictures in the “Elephant” thread that it looked as though you were shifting one of the worlds baddest 65 Dodges with a column shifter, and found myself musing at the irony.

The reason I really asked was that that I’ve been watching a lot of Super Stock videos, and I noticing that literally every car I see has a gated style shifter, be it a PPP, Cheetah, TCI…. Whatever. So Im trying to understand it. Like Tex, I’m of the school of thought that doing something different for the 1-2 than you do for the 2-3 seems to just be adding complexity to something that doesn’t need be. Also, grab the lever wrong or push wrong at the gate and voila…. Wrong gear.

With a ratchet shifter, it’s the same action for both shifts…. Just bang it! No thought required. No possible way of missing a gear. Just seems like a no-brainer to me, so I’m trying to understand it.
For reference, I currently utilize a B&M quicksilver, and do like it. As my car turns the corner from “street / strip” to “racecar”, I’m considering moving to a stealth Pro-Ratchet.

 

[33 IMP]

When I had my cheetah hooked to a reverse pattern 727, if I just slapped it for the 1-2 shift, perfect, bullet proof. A very solid shifter. Converted to work on a powerglide.... flawless.
If something in the pass distracted me, and I grabbed the shifter.... 1-3.
I agrek e, never liked the idea of having to pull a lever, or NOT pull a lever, depending on the gear change. That's even more concentration required that slap or pull.
I've got a ratchet in one car that's reverse pattern, and one car that's forward. When I change to a reverse pattern, I can still use the exact same shifter.

 

[6PKRTSE]

PPP in my street/Strip Challenger. Stock shifters in all my other cars.