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1. www.drivingline.com › articles › the-hurst-lightningThe Hurst Lightning Rods Shifter System Was The ... - DrivingLine

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   Oct 9, 2021 · The Hurst Lightning Rods, perhaps the strangest automatic transmission option ever sold on a 1980s muscle car. Not Quite Sequential Shifting Sequential shifting—where gears are accessed one after the other—has often been favored by drag racers for the economy of motion associated with moving a stick in a straight line while accelerating ...

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3. www.msn.com › en-us › autosHere's How Hurst Lightning Rod Shifters Worked - MSN

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   Automatic manual shifters are common nowadays, but the experimental "Lightning Rod" shifters in the Hurst/Olds muscle car was the first, strange version of it.

4. www.kilduffmachine.com › lightning-rod-shifterslightning rod shifters - Kilduff Machine

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   Lighting rod shifter with 2 dummy sticks for lock up and overdrive #1157DD. $710.00. lightning rod shifters for all transmissions.

5. barnfinds.com › hows-that-shifter-work-lightningHow’s That Shifter Work? Lightning Rods 1984 Hurst/Olds

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   Jun 27, 2022 · The left rod is for standard “PRNDL” duties. The rightward stick shifts from gear one to two. The middle stick takes you from second gear to third. Perhaps as important was that the engine produced 245 ft-lbs. of torque, and that’s the fast that you feel when you mash the gas. Use of a 3.73:1 gear set enhanced the car’s quickness as well.

6. engineerine.com › three-shift-levers-crazy-hurstHow Did the Crazy Three Lever Transmission Work? – Engineerine

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   Jan 12, 2023 · Sadly, the Lightning Rods were discontinued following the Hurst/Old product lines of 1983 and 1984. Conclusion. The Lightning Rod system can only be described as “innovative.” While it was a lot more complicated and time-consuming than a conventional gearbox, and it wasn’t a genuine manual, I still found it to be fairly amazing.

7. www.motorious.com › lightning-rods-1984-hurst-oldsLightning Rods: 1984 Hurst/Olds - Motorious

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   Dec 10, 2020 · As you can see here, 1984 flipped the color scheme. Every '83-'84 Hurst/Olds was powered by a 307 cubic inch Oldsmobile V8 backed up by a 200-4R automatic. Out back, you'd find 3.73 gears for better acceleration, and 1984s got the upgraded GM 8.5" rear axle. The real fun part of owning an '83-'84 Hurst/Olds is the shifter – or shifters.

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   How do lightning rod shifters work?

   • The power might not have been ’60-like, at just 180hp, but you could shift the automatic transmission manually using the whacky-looking, three-lever Lightning Rods shifter. How does that work? The left rod is for standard “PRNDL” duties. The rightward stick shifts from gear one to two. The middle stick takes you from second gear to third.

   How’s That Shifter Work? Lightning Rods 1984 Hurst/Olds

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   Can a GM shift with a lightning rod?

   • It wasn’t possible because all the levers did was move a typical shift cable on a standard version of GM’s automatic transmission. Lightning Rods may or may not have helped acceleration, but they certainly offered drivers something to do instead of depending only on the auto box to shift.

   How Did the Crazy Three Lever Transmission Work? – Engineerine

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   What's a 'lightning rod' on a Lenco?

   • Look inside one of these cars and you'll see three sticks, like an old Lenco racing transmission. Hurst dubbed this setup "Lightning Rods." The left stick handled your basic "P-R-N-OD-D" duties. If you wanted to have some fun, though, you'd use the stick on the right to perform the 1-2 shift, and the middle stick to go from second to third.

   Lightning Rods: 1984 Hurst/Olds - Motorious

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   Why are lightning rods so popular?

   • Still, Lightning Rods never really caught on with the hot rod crowd past those who were intrigued by its curious design. Ratchet shifters were seen as an easier and less fussy way to get maximum performance out of an automatic transmission, and quickly colonized the drag racing world.

   The Hurst Lightning Rods Shifter System Was The Craziest '80s

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9. www.thirdgen.org › forums › transmissions-drivetrainLightning Rod shifter swap - Third Generation F-Body Message ...

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   Jan 27, 2002 · A Hurst Lightning Rod shifter looks kinda like the shifters for Lenco transmissions, it has 3 shift levers, one is the standard shift pattern, and the other two control the 1-2 and 2-3 upshift and downshift if you want to shift manually.