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Shifting the Powerglide

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MaggiFinn:
I couldn't find a shifter that fitted my budget, while fitting the close surroundings inside my FED.
 
 While a lot of dragster guys and girls locate the shifter in the middle, under the steering wheel, I have never before seen a shifter in a dragster on the left side. ( but then again, there's only half a dozen dragsters here in Iceland)

 It works for me, its within close range  of the steering wheel and I keep my hand on it while staging and launching the car. Once the 1-2 shift is completed I got two hands on the wheel.

 Its connected to the transmission via 3/8 stainless rod, fitting the upside down, slightly lengthened gear selector.

From 1'st the gear lever has a slot to hit when 2gear engages. then you flex the lever over and past the slot to hit neutral. Once in neutral you have to lift a spring loaded flap to find reverse and park.

 I made a small video of how it operates from inside the car.

GlennLever:
Nice home grown solution!

What do you do when at the bottom end of the rod to get to the transmission

MaggiFinn:
I got to get a better picture of it when left side of the body is off, but I built an extension I fitted to the valve body actuator that puts the rod end at the 12'o clock position. 
 That way the lever on the transmission points straight up instead of straight down. Heim joint on both ends attaches the rod from the shifter to the transmission.
The downward camera angle in the attached picture is awkward but it fits without hitting the downtube and is tucked neatly beside the frame as far away from my feet as possible. The rubber hose you see in that picture is from the brake fluid reservoir and the trans has a carbon scattershield.

The extension is removable and universal with minimal welding, as we might have to swap Glides from one racecar to another.

The rod goes through the small hole in the floor/firewall.
 
Here it is in the assembly stages..

 
 


 

GlennLever:
Got it

afaulk:
 :)Nice hotrod! How do ya pronounce the name of that track? 8)

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