Thread: you don't have to be shiftless!!!!

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Well, looks like I'm not the only one who still likes running a manual trans!!!! Tripped over this site, a bracket reserved for manual trans cars!!!! Take a look, everybody launches wheels up, as life should be!!!!


Pro Stick Racing

But they run a manual tranny in NHRA Pro Stock. You just don't have to use the clutch after you launch.

Yeah, I know..... and I just keep going to the G-Force site and looking at all the goodies!!!!! Heck, there 6 speed is rated for 600 horse and torque now!!!!!! A 2.71 low gear with two overdrives!!!!! Best of both worlds!!!!

I have serious doubts that most of the guys running in NHRA Pro Stock could actually shift the car and keep it going in a straight line.

Just drop the clutch and start pulling the handle!!!! Nothing to it! When I run my Doug Nash in a drag car, everybody gives me a bunch of crap about how you can't run a 5 speed in a bracket car,,,,,,then ask if they can make a pass in the car!!!!!!!!

I saw this site about the manual trans only cars, and had to share it. Too bad the track is way the heck out in Maryland, sure would be fun to go run with them some weekend!!!!!!!


PS, going to forward it to our track manager at good old Thunder Valley in Marion, SD....

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

I have serious doubts that most of the guys running in NHRA Pro Stock could actually shift the car and keep it going in a straight line.

Wow.....I am confused here.....Pro Stock doesn't shift?

Originally Posted by nitrowarrior

Wow.....I am confused here.....Pro Stock doesn't shift?

Yeah, they shift, just all clutchless after the launch....

Just grabbin' yer chain.....of course they shift........I just spent 4 days under contract with one of them at the CSK nationals........it seemed weird to hear somebody put a different spin on it

Originally Posted by nitrowarrior

Just grabbin' yer chain.....of course they shift........I just spent 4 days under contract with one of them at the CSK nationals........it seemed weird to hear somebody put a different spin on it

Just a whole lot more advanced then my old B/SS from back in '68!!!!!

As good as my old Doug Nash works, I would just about kill to be able to make a pass or two with one of the new style 5 or 6 speeds!!!!! Somehow, gonna find the $5k to have one in the Ranchero!!!!! Keep thinking that G-Force 6 speed might be the way to go.....????? Gotta be streetable, too..

We had what was probably the first B&M "Hydrostick" to come into Texas. It was an early '50's Olds dual-range hydramatic with B&M magic applied to it.

Like most other cocky young squirts I was of the opinion that I was most likely the most gifted gearshifter in the world. The transmission was happy behind the 354 hemi. Because of my great talent I always shifted it by hand. I could "sense" when it was time to shift...... or so I thought.

It was a very sad day in my life when one day, just out of curiosity, we decided to make some runs keeping both hands on the wheel and letting the transmission think for itself.

We made three passes. EVERY ONE WAS QUICKER THAN WHEN I SHIFTED!

My partner calmly suggested I be governed accordingly.

Jim

Wow, had almost forgotten about the Hydrosticks!!!!! Reminds me of being a kid and telling my friends I didn't need a tach and could shift by ear.....which was ok till the first time I actually raced someone and we both had open headers.... couldn't hear my engine!!!! Bought a tach next day!!!!!

hydros are great. just try to find some one to work on one though.

dave, what about the UMTR united manual transmission drag racers assoc. UMTR Intro

Looks like a kewl deal, two brackets and run off your own dial in.....,Unfortunately the closest race is Indiana......

Hey Scooter, you buy me a new 6 speed G-Force with Long V-gate shifter and I'll give you all my Doug Nash stuff!!!!!! Betcha nobody made ya that good of an offer today, huh?????

Originally Posted by 48fordnut

hydros are great. just try to find some one to work on one though.

Well, Jim, I know this guy.

There is a man who lives a few miles from me. He spent 35 or 40 years with General Motors attached to the automatic transmission department (if that's what they call it). After he retired he built a great little shop behind his home and overhauls transmissions, and this dude knows his stuff.

He built my TH400 for me.

The situation is that he works when and for whom he damn well pleases. Like me, he's old, he's cranky, and he knows what his services are worth, but he could probably handle any Hydramatic if whoever owns the transmission approached him in the right manner.

If anybody needs Hydramatic service (and doing business with somebody in North Texas is feasible), I'll try to put you in contact with him.

Jim