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03-05-2025, 11:50 PM
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Re: Air shifters in stock?
Okay, I will own this one, and also give you my reason. I can’t say he presented this, but I can say I pitched this to Larry Hodge for about 1.5 years now. I won a div championship with a manually shifted automatic trans. My question is, why is this any different from anything going on now? I suggested an elec.solenoid, not air, but no real difference there. Most everyone is using either e-shift or pressure 1-2, and this just adds cost, and difficulty getting a valve body at times. With controller and solenoid, we can now not worry with exotic valve bodies. Not changing anything we aren?t already doing. There are so many things that are so far removed from when I started in 1997 it blows my mind. I love class racing but the more I do it, the more I realize we are to a place that takes CLASS out of racing. My 2 cents!
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03-06-2025, 09:39 AM
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Re: Air shifters in stock?
Is a change this big not normally brought to some kind of vote through SRAC or some other kind of public forum?
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03-06-2025, 11:32 AM
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Re: Air shifters in stock?
Nothing to vote on! This just makes any advantage equal for everyone in all classes.
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03-06-2025, 11:50 AM
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03-06-2025, 12:20 PM
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Re: Air shifters in stock?
My Firebird can use the E-shift and over the years has had that in the car but does not now
The controllers are hard to come by and the trans obviously has to have the correct VB for the E-shift and I don't have either I opted to put an air shifter in my car for bracket racing which is all 1/8th mile anymore... Manually shifting 2 times in an 1/8th mile is a disadvantage I can easily remove the air shifter for NHRA 1/4 mile racing and manually shift as I did when I had this car nearly 20 years ago.... It's no problem in 1/4 mile racing... I do welcome the new rule for 2026 making my air shifter acceptable...
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