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Shifting the Powerglide
MaggiFinn:
--- Quote from: afaulk on April 25, 2013, 06:25:46 PM --- :)Nice hotrod! How do ya pronounce the name of that track? 8)
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Thanks dude,
Pronunciation? ermm,, ehh,, Kvartmíluklúbburinn, Quart/Milo/Clubbing, gets you pretty close.
it's pretty much explained in this video:
gregm784:
Great solution! No reason you couldn't modify that for a cable for another car (thinking more universal with a cable). I like it.
mfp-66:
great idea. thanks for posting. idea stolen for my fed
Dolmetsch:
Nice car ! I like it!
I made my own shifter ad linkage as well. However I found now I have trouble driving and shifting. Ten years ago it would have been a piece of cake but now it seems a bit more then I can handle. Last time I tried I practiced for a week around the farm. I arrived at the track pulled to line. Pushed on the hand brake in Low and staged at 4500 RPM. As soon as I launched I put my hand on the homemade gateshifter and bumped it first to second then into high. It was then I realized I had one hand always on the hand brake and the left hand on the shifter. I asked myself "who is driving the car?" Apparently no one . Good thing it goes straight.
SO I bought a high speed govenor kit from A&A trans and installed it. A 6200 rpm one which suits the slant six. I hooked the throttle valve control to a lawn mower throttle lever and cable so I can preset the shift from about 3000 to full 6200+. Now I just pop it in drive , stage launch and steer. Much better for me and safer. I have never played with a PG tran but I am sure it can also be done easily as their govenor can be serviced from the side . Why didnt I use a solenoid or air shifter? Because they are Automatic transmissions . Designed in the first place to shift themselves. All they need is the right RPM shift point.
This trans is heavily modified as well lest anyone think it is stock, it aint.
Don
janjon:
Why hand on the brake handle when not braking? How practice for a week and not realize somebody needs to sit on lap and steer???
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