post pics of your trans brake button location....
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post pics of your trans brake button location....
I have the stock steering wheel on my Camaro still. I put my trans brake button behind my shifter in the ashtray on a metal plate I made. I made my first passes with a trans brake last month and I don't really like the location of it. I'd prefer it on the steering wheel but I have a stock wheel. Anyone use the factory radio control button on the wheel? Post pics of your setup so I can get some ideas where to move it to.
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To back up with my transbrake, you have to put the trans in neutral and hold the transbrake button.
Well one time at the track, I'm on the starting line, 2-step set at 4500 rpm's. Holding the trans button on the shifter, lights come down, instead of letting off the button I held it and accidentally move it forward alittle and it when into neutral, I went backwards at 4500 rpm's. Scared the **** out of me. Lucky the track has a long staging lane. No car was close behind me.
I put a button on my steering wheel the next week. Even took the button off the shifter, didn't like the wire on the outside of the shifter from day one.
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Little story about the Cheetah shifter and trans button.
To back up with my transbrake, you have to put the trans in neutral and hold the transbrake button.
Well one time at the track, I'm on the starting line, 2-step set at 4500 rpm's. Holding the trans button on the shifter, lights come down, instead of letting off the button I held it and accidentally move it forward alittle and it when into neutral, I went backwards at 4500 rpm's. Scared the **** out of me. Lucky the track has a long staging lane. No car was close behind me.
I put a button on my steering wheel the next week. Even took the button off the shifter, didn't like the wire on the outside of the shifter from day one.
To back up with my transbrake, you have to put the trans in neutral and hold the transbrake button.
Well one time at the track, I'm on the starting line, 2-step set at 4500 rpm's. Holding the trans button on the shifter, lights come down, instead of letting off the button I held it and accidentally move it forward alittle and it when into neutral, I went backwards at 4500 rpm's. Scared the **** out of me. Lucky the track has a long staging lane. No car was close behind me.
I put a button on my steering wheel the next week. Even took the button off the shifter, didn't like the wire on the outside of the shifter from day one.
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Originally Posted by Taubr Unit
Not to laugh but holy ****, lol. I don't have to hit the trans brake on mine to back up, just put it in reverse like normal. But I do have to make a mental note NOT to hit it while driving, but I guess that goes with where ever you put the button.
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Mine has to be activated to go into reverse as well.
I made my switch from a coiled cord and a cheap engine starter switch(the kind that hooks to the solenoid to bump the starter. Works pretty good and hard to accidentally hit
I made my switch from a coiled cord and a cheap engine starter switch(the kind that hooks to the solenoid to bump the starter. Works pretty good and hard to accidentally hit
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On the shifter cover behind the stick, rear exit Hurst Quarter Stick. hold it with my thumb and the rest of my fingers wrap around the cover. then its just a forward motion to bang high gear and then to the wheel.
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Really? Seems like a very inconvenient place to put it. Mine is on the hurst shifter and it makes perfect sense to me. It makes me have one hand on the wheel and the other on the shifter, because sometimes if you launch the car really hard, you need to pull it into 2nd gear to keep the front end down. I couldn't imagine having to shift my hands around while in the middle of a 1.2X sixty foot.
I use a full auto 80e, so no shifting for me currently. The 2.10 first gear set, and menscer valved shocks resolved the wheelstand issue for the most part i think. I have only done one wheelstand and that was enough!