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Its an auto shifter.

Pull up the fork and get it outta park, down to drive, push the fork in when in drive and it ratchets thru the gears 1, 2 and 3. Over drive is wired up to a little on/off switch near the snow / power switch.

Pull the old shifter off, position the new one, cut a hole in the tranny tunnel and run the cable thru. Some brackets courtesy of MV Autos adelaide where used. The cable setting and cutting the hole was the most difficult part.

It is certainly unique, and as u said, i dont think its for everyone lol.

Your install looks good with the manual surround. Iv got a BM pro ratchet in mine, i painted the case black as to not stand out so much but i like it.

Yeah thats cool how its black. Reason i wanted a mega shifter is cause the Pro Ratchet has been done before lol. But i havent seen one with the case painted black like that though lol. That very cool! :)

I got a bigger leather boot to sit around it to get rid of a lot of the chrome. Now it looks like the whole dash is coming out and will get painted in a colour a little less bright me thinks.

thinking of doing this sometime down the track

has anyone else done it or have any more pics?

are you guys running standard auto gear? or do you have manualized auto setups?

was thinking of going that route once ive finished engine mods etc, i hate how the auto kicks down off throttle would like to be able to hold a certain gear/more flexibilty possibly.

anyone have any comments on this?

3k stall and stage 2 shift kit is all mine has.

If ya wanna manualise it talk to Mike @ MV Automatics in SA.

If ya do manualise, dont get a megashifter. Pro Ratchet is easier to use. My megashifter is farking hard to punch around lol

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Post your video here mate! :)

At Howie's request,

Here is the link to a video of my ratchet shifter getting used.

The switch to the right of the shifter is 4th gear, which is usually the o/d button on your stock T-bar.

Cheers to my brother for the camera work lol.

Let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQGCmSEfDU

i got a 4spd pro ratchett 4 my r33 do i need the button 4 overdrive or can i make it the 4th gear

You could in theory rig up the switch for the (on/off) overdrive by having it engaged when selecting the 4th gear, however, the mucking around ya gonna go through to get it sorted out properly IMO outweighs what its advantage its gonna have for you.

Be a lot easier to hook up a missile switch or a straight ON/OFF switch in the centre console area.

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