Dick, Save the money you would spend on a shifter and get a reverse
shift valve body from TCI. It makes the shift N-1-2-3. When you install
it in the trans take the park pawl out so you can never get park. Now
look at the rooster comb on the shift shaft and weld a stop at the 4th
notch. Now you will start in neutral, the next and only move you can
make will be 1st. gear. The next detent will be 2nd. gear. the next move
will be 3rd. gear. 3rd. gear is the end of the line, you can not move
the shift shaft any more. If you want neutral at any time just pull it
all the way back. I have never seen a need for reverse or park in a LSR
car. All it can do is screw you up. Make your own shifter out of the old
parts you have from the B&M.
Doug Odom in big ditch where it is windy and 67 today.
Dick J wrote:
>Who knows anything about shifters? I've got a B&M Megashifter on my TH350.
>It's old and sloppy and the finger release is hard to work to get it into or
>out of Park position. I'm thinking about getting a new shifter, but have no
>idea what's what. Just B&M has ten shifters shown at the top of the page in
>the Summit catalog. And then there's Hurst, TCI and others! I'm not sure I
>am really in love with that ratchet-style shifter, but on the other hand, I
>prefer not to shift from low to drive. Anybody had any experience with the
>B&M bandit series. How about the Pro-Gate or Z-gate?
>
> Years ago I had a shifter from a boneyard, I think out of an Olds 442, that
>had strong gate lockouts almost like a four speed shifter. You'd pull it back
>and to the left to get it into first, push once to get to second, then have to
>force right and push forward to get into drive. It would not overshift past
>drive because it would have to be pulled back to theleft to get neutral, park
>and reverse. Does anybody know of an aftermarket shifter that works similar
>to that?
>
> I don't need a multi-zillion dollar drag shifter, but I would like something
>that will give me positive gear selection.
>
> DickJ
> In East Texas
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