Fastest stick shift car in the nation.

"vondon302" (vondon302) 12/06/2019 at 08:10 • Filed to: stick shift

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Running 7s at over 200. Yee haw!

Wish they had a in car shot.

Grindintosecond > vondon302 12/06/2019 at 08:58

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We should define stick shift. Do Lenco tranny’s count? Cause Pro Stock cars have  been faster that that for years.

vondon302 > Grindintosecond 12/06/2019 at 09:29

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Very true.

Personally I don’t count Lencos as a stick shift but to each their own.

Hell  the old top fuelers of the late 80s and 90s had more going on than those. Manually locking up the high gear and all that.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Grindintosecond 12/06/2019 at 09:38

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Stick in drag racing means uses a clutch for launching  and is directly operated by the driver using a single stick. No lencos. Some classes go even further and restrict it to an H-pattern. 

Censored > Grindintosecond 12/06/2019 at 09:52

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H pattern shift.

Censored > vondon302 12/06/2019 at 10:00

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He seems like a genuinely cool dude too. Has Cleetus talking about a body for Leroy, so you know its serious . It’s fun to watch 5 or 6 cars push each other hard. Red De mon, Minion, IDS 240, Leroy and the Grannas Supra to name a few.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Censored 12/06/2019 at 11:07

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What is Leroy running now? It was sevens-ish last video I saw but it has been awhile.

Censored > Future next gen S2000 owner 12/06/2019 at 11:15

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7.79@186. He has a shop looking at some body panels to clean up the air over the wheels and such.

Censored > Future next gen S2000 owner 12/06/2019 at 11:19

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https://youtu.be/IZwgr7MUwwU?t=2187

kanadanmajava1 > vondon302 12/06/2019 at 12:10

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L iberty Equalizer transmissions are also very popular for drag racing. Unlike Lenc o transmissions they use a single stick to operate the gears. But their shifter ha s a ratcheting mechanism so you only need to pull it back and forth to shift gears up. So it shifts slight ly like a H pattern transmission but the lever’s lateral movement has been automated but the ratcheting mechanism. There’s no easy way to downshift with these as the r at chet ing works only for upshifts.

But this isn’t just a sturdy manual transmission with a weird gear lever. When you are upshifting and engaging the next gear the previous gear is still engaged too . Just moving the lever doesn’t di se n gag e the previous gear like any regular manual does.   The dog me cha nism has cuts that enable the transmission to push out and disengage the previous gear when the next is engaged (this function also makes engine braking impossible ) . So t hese can be shifted without lifting the accelerator pedal as the engine speed cannot climb uncontrolled . They also have two layshafts to make them very tough .

vondon302 > kanadanmajava1 12/06/2019 at 12:15

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That whole second paragraph was great info.

Alw ays wondered how those worked. I assumed it was similar to a lenco.