Ares05

I have never seen one, but its called ratchet shifter. Never heard of one either until now. Anyone have one or know anything about it?

http://www.americanmuscle.com/tci-ra...er-0509gt.html

Avery0001

Yeah i've seen those before, they let you shift up gears more precisely with an automatic. I mean you can shift up gears already with an automatic but this prevents you from overshifting into the next gear accidentally. I have heard it's faster than shifting manually with an automatic but I dont have one. I know a couple people on here do and hopefully they will chime in and tell you more about it.

MustangFirstCar

Well have you ever tried "manually" shifting with the auto? It feels sluggish and you can miss gears and all that. This shifter prevents that, and looks really cool too. I believe you can get it for like 350 bucks if you shop around though.

aaquib1992

Does it make the shifts quicker though? I know more precise, but I never found out if it actually makes the gear changes quicker...

The tune helped with that a little for me, but there is a lot of room for improvement with the manual shift. During performance driving I almost always have to still leave it in auto shift for the car to be most effective... Makes me a sad person lol.

Alec

I was one of the people that was quick to write off these, but after seeing one in person, they are a very solid piece. No real performance gains unfortunately

aaquib1992

Aaawwwww, I was trying to justify one of these... But for the price I should really be putting that money away for actual performance mods lol.

Ares05

darn haha, so they have no real performance gain? They do seem like they would make driving a little more interesting

MustangFirstCar

It's a "fun factor" mod, really.

Ares05

does anyone here own one? It sounds like it would be much more fun that the stock shifter

alkemist

Let's just say you don't want to miss a gear, results of said mistake make you look pretty bad. It happens way too easy with the stock shifter.

I don't manually shift much anymore so I haven't seriously thought about getting one. Something for the mod list someday though.

A couple guys on here have it but I can't recall their names.