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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: mshred]
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10/14/12 02:31 PM
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I have a gated style on the Rampage and a ratchet on the race car... wish I would have got a ratchet for the Rampage(I might change it).. both are B&M shifters.. the ratchet is much easier to use but the gate one I bought looks better(for a street rod) 
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: mshred]
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10/14/12 02:35 PM
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I had a TA Cheetah gated shifter and hated it. I lost the 4th round just 3 weeks ago pulling from 1st to 3rd, I've done that more than once.
I just installed a B&M Pro Ratchet with a Hurst pistol grip, tried it out last week. I love it, no way you can miss a shift. But some swear by the TA shifter, you need to find a shifter that fits your style.
2001 Dodge Dakota
408 All Motor
11.27 @ 117.83 mph
2017 NM Mopar Challenge Series Champion.
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: 70Dart499]
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10/14/12 02:57 PM
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If you asked everyone with a gated shifter if they ever unintentionally went 1st to 3rd, nearly every one will admit to it "once or twice". Those odds are not good for me, as I am sure it would happen in the later rounds which I rarely see anyway. I did win a race when my opponent missed the 1-2 shift and went to 3rd.
With a ratchet shifter, it is 1 gear at a time, every time.
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: 52savoy]
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10/14/12 02:59 PM
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 I have nothing but trouble with ratchet shifters because of hanging up and it takes both hands to get them free.
what do you mean by "hanging up"?
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: Adobedude]
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10/14/12 03:02 PM
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I had a TA Cheetah gated shifter and hated it. I lost the 4th round just 3 weeks ago pulling from 1st to 3rd, I've done that more than once.
I just installed a B&M Pro Ratchet with a Hurst pistol grip, tried it out last week. I love it, no way you can miss a shift. But some swear by the TA shifter, you need to find a shifter that fits your style.
The Pro Ratchet is what I have also... love it..
I use 3 fingers to shift
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: mshred]
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10/14/12 03:43 PM
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Watch the video in my signature, that's absolutley NOT the way to use a Cheetah shifter, you are supposed to slap it...But I just have to grab onto the thing, and that's why it would not work for me.
I went with a Pro Ratchet because you just pull it to shift, no levers to pull, you just pull it one click to shift and the Hurst pistol handle makes it that much better.
2001 Dodge Dakota
408 All Motor
11.27 @ 117.83 mph
2017 NM Mopar Challenge Series Champion.
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: 52savoy]
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10/14/12 03:52 PM
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They either get stuck in park or reverse. 
yikes, thats no good...this is common??
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: Just-a-dart]
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10/14/12 03:54 PM
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I like the Precision performance shifter http://www.precisionperformance.com/home.htm set up as a rear exit pushing to up shift (with a RMVB)
lower right in pic
my brother bought one of those for his T-400 poncho, but has yet to run it...funky lookin thing, but looks like it would work nice...kinda expensive though. If I was to go gated I was thinking that or a hurst quarter stick
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: Adobedude]
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10/14/12 03:55 PM
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Watch the video in my signature, that's absolutley NOT the way to use a Cheetah shifter, you are supposed to slap it...But I just have to grab onto the thing, and that's why it would not work for me.
I went with a Pro Ratchet because you just pull it to shift, no levers to pull, you just pull it one click to shift and the Hurst pistol handle makes it that much better.
for some reason I have heard a lot of guys say the cheetah is easy to overshift or miss with. I have never seen one in person though to look at the construction of it as to why. Is it much different from other gated shifters?
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: mshred]
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10/14/12 04:08 PM
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They either get stuck in park or reverse.
yikes, thats no good...this is common??
Sure isnt common with the Pro Ratchet(I've never heard
of this issue)... I have NEVER missed a shift
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Re: Gated or ratchet shifter better for racing?
[Re: MR_P_BODY]
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10/14/12 04:13 PM
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PUSHBUTTONS.
Just push the right one!!
526 cubes of angry wedge, pushbutton shifted, 9 passenger killer!
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