John Sleath is a well known and well respected race car builder over in England and in this video we see him racing one of his creations at what looks like York Raceway in England. The truck is awesome and pretty quick but the thing that qualifies it for Parting Shift status is the killer shifter which is the Kilduff Engineering Lightning Rods. We have shown you these before but never in a racing application and when you see it work you will dig it. Hell, we know of at least one BangShifter who installed these babies in his car after seeing our first expose on them a couple of years ago.
The theory is the same as the original Hurst Lightning Rods from the 1980s in that you can pull a single lever and have the trans work like a normal automatic or you can yank (or in this case push) the levers for complete control of each gear. As you can see, in this truck the shifter knobs have buttons on them and those buttons do different things. Sleath seems to have one wired to the line lock for burnouts and the button on the far right handle wired to a parachute launcher to use a the end of a run.
These things are cool and they work awesome according to everyone that has installed them. We just think that they are flat out cool, Kilduff has not shipped us a pallet of them or anything. We also find it cool to see them in a racing application and not just a street car. This truck is something else. There’s an interior and exterior look at the run. It is making some good steam! The engine apparently makes about 1,100hp and roughly 1,700 lb-ft of torque.
Get some!
