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arrugge1
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Posted: May/14/2018 at 5:42pm |
I have a Borg Warner M12 and would like to replace the stock shifter with a ratcheting shifter. Which one would you guys suggest?
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304-dude
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Billd has a mega shifter that he wants to sell... and i had installed one on my 73 Javelin and used it for a while.
Mega shifters are great, but it gets getting use to, as it is more complex in function than a stock shifter. |
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390 69 crank, 70 block & heads NASCAR SB2 rods & pistons 78 Jeep TH400 w/ 2.76 Low 50/50 Ford-AMC Suspension 79 F150 rear & 8.8 axles Ford Racing 3.25 gears & 9" /w Detroit locker |
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billd
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Not really nice for a street car unless setup and adjusted properly.
I already sold mine - in fact it hadn't been out of the car even a week and it was spoken for.
Just my opinion - not sure they are worth it on a BW - but then you have the gee-whiz, whiz-bang, golly that's cool factor working with 'em. IMO, and my opinion is worth what you paid - it's more for a built automatic that has true first and second gears and you shift it manually. That's just my thinking. |
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purple72Gremlin
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I remember Ken Parkman did it for some one, and from what he said,its ALOT of aggrievation, and He pretty much said never again... Unless it's made for a specific transmission, I would just keep the stock shifter. I am not really a fan of anything B&M. (I have the one Hurst autostick, and I am using it in my drag car)..
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WesternRed
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I modified the stock shifter to work better with a full manual valve body. You may have to do a bit of adaptation to get the aftermarket shifter to work with the BW trans.
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tomj
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dunno about M12, but M35, the spacing between P and the other gear detents was not the same. torqueflite they're all equal-spaced, but not the little Borg Warner. you can probably guess how i figured that out.
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arrugge1
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Thank you for all of the advice. I think Iām going to skip this modification and leave the stock shifter in place. šš»
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6768rogues
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I had a B&M ratchet shifter in my Jeep. It wore out but not until it was 30 years old.
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billd
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I'm still guessing.......... give me a little while...........
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Ken_Parkman
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Yeah it was a huge pain in the h***.
The guy had some ratchet shifter installed by a generic bolt together mechanic and it did not work. The brackets do not fit and the detent spacing is not right, so it was a dogs breakfast. He kept asking me to fix it and I kept saying no, use a stock shifter, and he finally wore me down. I kept saying you cannot pay someone to re-engineer something not designed to fit as the hours and cost is crazy. Things like that you have to do yourself, or be filthy rich. So I had to re-route the cable, fabricate a new cable bracket, pull the tranny apart (valve body had to come out), calculate a new lever radius, make a new lever, put it back together, then do it all over again cause it was just not quite right first try. In the end it seemed to work well and I hope it still does. He has not been back since I think the cost of that really peed him off. It took a lot of hours. |
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