what aftermarket shifters are you running with your automatics?

Someone go into detail about how these work, and why they are better than a column shifter.

I know they work well, but I have never used one, and im not sure exactly how most of them operate(i know most are different).

Do you have to do anything to go to reverse? Neutral? Drive? What keeps you from hitting neutral, or does it have any kind of stop for that? Is there anything to keep you from accidentally downgearing(like if you were racing?). How are they for daily driving?

Eric
 
They have stops, most are a ratchet type shifter. Push forward and it jumps a gear, push forward again and so on.. lever or button to go into park.


On the OD button thing, is it hard to determine which wires to use?

Thanks
 
I have the B&M.
You lift the handle to pull it out of park, go to D. From D you can pull it back once and it is in second, release pressure and pull it back to 1st. Same way going forward, it will only go one gear at a time. It will not go to reverse until you go back to drive and pull up on the lever.

If you have ran a rough track, there is a good chance that you hit a bump right as you went from first to second and ended up in 3rd.
 
They have stops, most are a ratchet type shifter. Push forward and it jumps a gear, push forward again and so on.. lever or button to go into park.


On the OD button thing, is it hard to determine which wires to use?

Thanks

on mine i just traced the wires down the column from the lever to the plug ans cut the two wires and ran them to a momentary switch that i pun in my swicth pannel
 
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Here's mine..B&M pro-rachet, if you look at the button toward seats, that's the t/h monotary switch. I fab'd that switch panel out of sheet metal, fab'd up the platform for the shifter also which is just flat stock.

On the trans. brkt, I just fab up a new one so I could save the stock one(virgin). I did have a longer cable made up (a shop close by).

A person needs to make sure that each position of the shifter that the trans is in that gear firmly or otherwise that's a good way to screw the trans up.

Like someone already said, a rachet shift (slap shfter) only lets you grap 1 gear at a time. On going into R, that lever on the shifter needs to be flipped when in N, then can go in R/Park.
 
The MegaShifter can only get into Park or Reverse by pulling up the lever in Drive, not in Neutral. Why, I don't know.

With the ratchet shifter, it's a good idea to get a reverse-pattern valve body. That way you can go from neutral to first instead of neutral to drive to second to first.
 
ive had a rmvb and prefer a standard vb, that way i can pop it in neutral after the traps.
 
Now this has me thinking..

With a complete manual valve body... Whats the point in having the T/H button?

Would it actually control anything anymore?

Obviously I'm talking only about the 05 that doesn't have O/D lockout...
 
Now this has me thinking..

With a complete manual valve body... Whats the point in having the T/H button?

Would it actually control anything anymore?

Obviously I'm talking only about the 05 that doesn't have O/D lockout...

Still need to beable to have the wiring and a button so the cel doesn't trigger.
I leave it on the t/h all the time as it does change the shift points, others do the same with the '05's
 
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