Yes you are right 30 years ago I had a dedicated race car and went from column to floor cable shift. I will put headers on the D100 318SB and the Ramcharger 440BB. The D100 will keep the column shift with auto VB and the Ramcharger will have a TCI shifter with a cable that comes in from the back and avoids all the hot spots (even so I will wrap it with the fire sleeve). I already had the trans built with a RMVB, so I will still be shifting away, but if I had known the secret it might have been different. The exhaust on the D100 will be mellow, not obnoxious and the Ramcharger will have mufflers, too even though it will be race only