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- Debuting at the end of the 1960s in the Hurst/Olds muscle car, the design featured a second shift gate to the right of the standard PRND markings that, when the shifter was moved over, allow for the first three gears to be rattled off, one after the other, by pushing it forward.
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Oct 9, 2021 · This was the genesis of the Lightning Rods, a trio of shifters that somehow managed to complicate what the Dual Gate had achieved, all in the name of 'simplifying' straight line speed. Looking in through the window of the 1983 Hurst/Olds was a prescription for confusion.
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Jun 27, 2022 · The Lightning Rods were supposed to evoke the multi-lever shifter on the Lenco trans in Warren Johnson’s Hurst/Olds Pro Stock racer. In that application, it really is one stick connected to one gear in a manual trans.
So Hurst came up with Lightning Rods, a triad of gear shifters that took the idea of the Dual Gate shifter and, believe it or not, made shifting more convoluted than it ever needed to be.
Jun 15, 2019 · Take the Hurst Lightning Rods, an aftermarket performance shifter marketed in the 1980s. This gadget employed three shift levers to accomplish everything that a single lever could do. Hurst’s inspiration for the Lightning Rods was the Lenco transmission (above) used in drag racing in those years, notably in the NHRA Pro Stock category.
How to use the Lightning Rod Shifters in an 84 Hurst Olds.
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Mar 26, 2024 · It wouldn’t be a Hurst/Olds without Hurst equipment, and topping that list was the company’s Lightning Rods shifter. The four-speed automatic below the center console was a specially prepared TH200-4R unit controlled by three separate shift levers.