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You need the other gate; the one you have is WAY too easy to go immediately into 2nd. On a hard-leaving car, you definitely don't want to leave with your hand on the shifter, regardless of which gate you use, but other than that, it's something you can just slap into the next gear.

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Anyone know which gate I need?

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I have the "good" gate in my Duster, been there since before I got it 17 years ago. Never a problem, it's very intuitive, but like I said, if the car leaves hard, keep your hand off the shifter until it's time for 2nd. The shifter I bought used for my '64 had the same gate as yours does now, so I changed it to what my Duster has. It was obvious to me that it would be way too easy to run through to 3rd, plus I want the 2 cars to work as similarly as possible. I've never had a problem with my Cheetah as far as function or having to maintain/adjust it.

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Thanks, I don't know what constitutes "Leaving Hard" but mine typically is in the low 1.4s but my problem is seat time, Hart to learn a routeen racing three times this year, I'm just tying to isolate the things that are taking me out first round, The Car always does its job, Driver runs out of talent early.

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....yea i said it like a slap stick

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I'm still trying to make myself look at the Tach and shift light, They'r both mounted on the dash right in front of my face but i still find a way to look around it!

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Me Too I have made thousands of passes in a lot of different cars that went from slow( 18 second zone) to half fast (low tens) It use to seem that the 12 and 13 second cars took forever to make a 1/4 mile pass, not anymore Now it seems all of them go by fast I'm now forgetting some of the runs at the end of the day I guess that is what log books, recall tachs, data loggers and weather station are for, memory aids Focus, focus, focus, I can say it easily. I find it harder to do in the car now