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Topic: Need a new shifter for my C4 with neutral safety switch and button for brake
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70coupe
Gearhead Posts: 357
From: Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-13-2002 02:34 PM
  
Which shifter do you guys recommend for my C4 with manual forward pattern valve body. I would like a button for the transbrake and it needs to have a neutral safety switch. Next question: My tranny doesn't have a neutral safety switch so I need to get a shifter that has one. How is it installed to the tranny if I dont have a switch on the tranny?
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steve'66
Gearhead Posts: 6522
From: Sonoma,CA,USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-13-2002 03:23 PM
B&M's ProRatchet is a good one ($171 at Summit). You'll never miss a shift with this shifter and it has a neutral safety switch and a back-up light switch (which is handy to activate the trans brake so reverse will work). Just buy a knob with a button in it for your line lock, either t-handle or ball. SteveW
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70coupe
Gearhead Posts: 357
From: Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-13-2002 04:04 PM
I already have the line lock connected to a separate button and I'm happy with where its located. Basically, I just need to have the tranbrake wired to the shifter. So how do you connect the brake using the back up light switch? I understand buying the new handle part just not the wiring.
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steve'66
Gearhead Posts: 6522
From: Sonoma,CA,USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-13-2002 04:09 PM
If you wire 12 volts through the back-up light switch to the t-brake then when you shift to R the car will go in reverse.  You will still want a t-brake button for launching. SteveW
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capri man
Gearhead Posts: 3385
From: doerun, ga.
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 08-13-2002 09:15 PM
cheeta, the only way to go!!!------------------
mike r
racing is real
everything else is just a game.
81 capri-7.51 @89mph 1/8
1.54 60 ft.
http://prestage.com/site/site_display.asp?SiteID=141
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steve'66
Gearhead Posts: 6522
From: Sonoma,CA,USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-13-2002 11:12 PM
I knew some one would say Cheeta  Great shifter from all the reports that we've heard! But we were too frugal (cheap) LOL
But, the pro ratchet has worked very well once I bent the brackets to the correct alignment. Cheeta is the best  SteveW
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Dave_C
Gearhead Posts: 744
From: Gadsden, Al
Registered: Aug 99
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posted 08-14-2002 01:17 AM
I have always had got luck/service from the Hurst Qtr stick. It's a good unit, perhaps not as fancy as the Cheetah, but it works well.On the trans-brake button: I would not put it on the shifter. Put it on the steering wheel, dash or roll bar. You can be more consistent that way. To use a button on the shifter requires you to use more arm msucles than anything else. Up close on the steering wheel requires mostly hand and wrist movement. Later, David Cole
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kid vishus
Gearhead Posts: 4538
From: middle of NC
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 08-14-2002 12:07 PM
I use a B&M Pro stick. It's cheap, and I ahve never h ad any problems with it. Also, I agree with not putting the button on the shfter. I did that for awhile, but my lights were inconsistent. There is no natural way to release the button with it being there. I have my button mounted on the floor in front of and towards the side (clesest my leg) of the shifter. I use all arm to release the button. Most guys do. Watch the Top Et/ Super Pro dragster guys run awhile. They all snap their whole arm back towards them when they release the button. The most important part, is to find a spot where you are comfortable holding the button down. With mine being where it is, my arm has a slight bend in the elbow, but is in a natural postion (like if you are sitting in a chair and reach down by your side to touch the outside edge of your calf right below you knee). When we put the switch in my car (actually both of them) I sat in them for quite awhile testing different places to try the switch. I dont like it on the steering wheel, but that's just personal preference.
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70coupe
Gearhead Posts: 357
From: Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-17-2002 10:20 AM
I bought the Turbo Action Cheetah. It seems everyone I talk to that has owned one says there the best but a little pricey. Thanks for your input.
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