Clean neutral keeps the direct drum spinning the same direction & rpm as the driveshaft.

Regular neutral the direct drum spins 2.5 times faster than the driveshaft, opposite direction of driveshaft.

Aluminum rods you need a clean neutral for this reason T400.

As far as the shifter, there's only one doorslammer.

Definitely wouldn't be a reverse pattern

Reverse pattern is a ritual prognostication of ill omen.

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99.9% of bracket racers run steel rods and do not neutral their car at the stripe. FYI, Pro Stock engines have steel rods in them too.

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99.9% of bracket racers run steel rods and do not neutral their car at the stripe. FYI, Pro Stock engines have steel rods in them too.

Are you critiquing my tech?

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
Aluminum rods you need a clean neutral

As far as the shifter, there's only one

Not tech, opinion!

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Originally posted by 1320racer:

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
Aluminum rods you need a clean neutral

As far as the shifter, there's only one

Not tech, opinion!

No that's your opinion Ed, and it's one without practical experience. You don't build engines, I do. We put the engines I build with aluminum rods, in neutral during shutdown. Any good engine builder wants the engine unloaded on decel aluminum rods. This is tech, yours is opinion without experience.

If a guy asks for a suggestion on a shifter, he's asking for an opinion. This is opinion.

I'm not critiquing anyone's tech, I'm informing.

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you're not an engine builder, you have a assembled an engine or two in your garage for broke dycks. Again, not tech, your opinion.

I build engines Ed, you don't.

I also build transmissions, you don't.

I also set up ring and pinions, you don't.

This means I do it all, you don't.

Get back to reading your hot rod magazines and leave the engine and transmission building to those of us who do it.

and you also no longer race

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and you also no longer race

Agree with Ed,

Two big races close to Florida the last two weekends, and the ole nova hasn't come out to play any....

John Force don't race anymore either, until he does.

We're the type who race when we want. It's not an addiction.

you couldn't hold force's jock strap! You're a has been that never was!

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you couldn't hold force's jock strap! You're a has been that never was!

You could and, you would after a weekend of racing, if instructed to by John.

"Ill omen"........LOL

Knocking the trans out of gear at the stripe is not just for aluminum rod engines.

Has anybody ever mentioned to some of the more well known and successful racing transmission builders to stop building reverse pattern th400's?

Back to the topic......no reply from Turbo Action today.

what's it's for is the go fast crowd not bracket racers which you aren't

Here at Broke Dyck Racing Engines our sbc units with 1" lift camshafts, we warm the oil for the burnout and click the engine off at the stripe, simultaneous to parachute shoot deployment.

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what's it's for is the go fast crowd not bracket racers which you aren't

Neither are you (bracket racer)!

I'm not huh, I've got a winning time slip from 2 weeks ago, you can't show a time slip from 2 years ago!

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Originally posted by 1320racer:
what's it's for is the go fast crowd not bracket racers which you aren't

Neither are you (bracket racer)!

Not sure when top sportsman stopped being a bracket race?

post one of your winning time slips from a round of competition in NHRA Top Sportsman

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I'm not huh, I've got a winning time slip from 2 weeks ago, you can't show a time slip from 2 years ago!

You got me there!

I might be back

Just hope Atco stays a dragstrip with a new owner.
I got two race cars sitting less than a mile from the track.
I don't see it but it's but possible.
KK knows better, maybe Fletcher, but I doubt it.