B&M megashifter
03-05-2002, 03:08 PM
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Car: 91 Camaro RS
Engine: 305 TBI LO3
B&M megashifter
What would a b&m megashifter do for my car other than look good? Does it do anything for performance?
03-05-2002, 05:02 PM
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Car: 89 Camaro RS
Engine: sbc 400
Transmission: th350
hey, i dont mean to be a jerk , but this topic comes up very often on this board, and the search option will bring up a lot of responses. the megashifter is a ratchet shifter, allowing you to "auto-shift" without accidentally blowing through all the gears and going straight to neutral. once again, sorry if i sound like a jerk, but this does come up often. i know cause i had wondered the same thing a while ago....
03-06-2002, 08:07 AM
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Car: 1988 Camaro SC
Engine: LT1 SBC
Transmission: LT1 T56
Axle/Gears: 3.73 Moser 12 Bolt
How tough is the B/M to install? I've heard its a bitch to get calibrated correctly - true or not? Also, would it be practical on a drag/street car? The stock shifter is so ugly...
03-06-2002, 08:35 PM
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Installation wasn't too bad, I did it by myself in about 2 hours.
I'd heard it was hard to calibrate too, but it turned out to be pretty straight forward, Id say easy if two people were doing it.
Alot of going back and forth from under the car to the drivers seat if you're working alone, but not bad though.
I'd call it perfect for a street/strip car. It's not as much of a dedicated race shifter as a quarter stick or something, but 100 times better than stock.
I'm also impressed with the quality.
I'd heard it was hard to calibrate too, but it turned out to be pretty straight forward, Id say easy if two people were doing it.
Alot of going back and forth from under the car to the drivers seat if you're working alone, but not bad though.
I'd call it perfect for a street/strip car. It's not as much of a dedicated race shifter as a quarter stick or something, but 100 times better than stock.
I'm also impressed with the quality.
03-08-2002, 09:12 AM
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Car: 94 Z28
Engine: LT1 w/ headers, catback, CAI, tune
Transmission: 4L60E
Axle/Gears: 3.23s
My brother and I just threw one into my old/his new 86 IROC this week.
Install was pretty straightforward, only the instructions said to drill the wrong size holes for the front of the mount. You're supposed to re-use the stock bolts (unless ours was missing new ones) yet the size the instructions say to drill is too large... Maybe there is some variance between the bolt sizes through the years or something... Almost screwed that one up, luckily the front bolts mount in a slot to be adjustable a bit, so I had room and could redrill the correct holes and have them still work. I didn't really like the idea that you have to cut up and ruin the stock shifter console to use this thing. Wouldn't have cost much more to just provide a whole new if you ask me...
Anyway, other than that install was a snap. Now, once it was installed I noticed that as you ratchet down gears, part of the mechanism bangs into the underside of the console. There is a "arm" that ratchets up off the front and hits it. I had to use my dremel to grind like a 1/4" off this arm to get it to clear and stop doing that. Kinda pissed me off, no reason for B&M not to have shortened that. Anyone else run into that or was it just me?
It's a pretty cool little shifter though now that everything is finished. Probably get one for my 87Z sometime.
Install was pretty straightforward, only the instructions said to drill the wrong size holes for the front of the mount. You're supposed to re-use the stock bolts (unless ours was missing new ones) yet the size the instructions say to drill is too large... Maybe there is some variance between the bolt sizes through the years or something... Almost screwed that one up, luckily the front bolts mount in a slot to be adjustable a bit, so I had room and could redrill the correct holes and have them still work. I didn't really like the idea that you have to cut up and ruin the stock shifter console to use this thing. Wouldn't have cost much more to just provide a whole new if you ask me...
Anyway, other than that install was a snap. Now, once it was installed I noticed that as you ratchet down gears, part of the mechanism bangs into the underside of the console. There is a "arm" that ratchets up off the front and hits it. I had to use my dremel to grind like a 1/4" off this arm to get it to clear and stop doing that. Kinda pissed me off, no reason for B&M not to have shortened that. Anyone else run into that or was it just me?
It's a pretty cool little shifter though now that everything is finished. Probably get one for my 87Z sometime.
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03-12-2002, 12:36 AM
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I'm planning on putting the dual gate 2 shifter into my car.
It is real exspensive though. Over 500 Canadian.
But who cares the shifters one the the first thinks people look at when they see your interior.
It is real exspensive though. Over 500 Canadian.
But who cares the shifters one the the first thinks people look at when they see your interior.
03-12-2002, 11:14 PM
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hahahha...i know what you mean about the dual gate being pricey in canada...after i couldnt find one of the discontinued hurst quarter sticks that fit in the 3rd gen consoles i looked at the B&M megashifter and the Hurst Dual gate. the dual gate looks amazing, but the B&M was less than 400 with tax here in ontario (where as the dual gate was way over 500) and i liked the racheting, no missed shifts security of it. however i am hearing it can be a pain to install...mines still in the box.
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03-12-2002, 11:26 PM
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hahahha...i know what you mean about the dual gate being pricey in canada...after i couldnt find one of the discontinued hurst quarter sticks that fit in the 3rd gen consoles i looked at the B&M megashifter and the Hurst Dual gate. the dual gate looks amazing, but the B&M was less than 400 with tax here in ontario (where as the dual gate was way over 500) and i liked the racheting, no missed shifts security of it. however i am hearing it can be a pain to install...mines still in the box.
later
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