 out there's having a fantastic time so today's video most of you guys probably know what's going down but we're gonna talk about the transmission swap that's about to happen we're gonna actually do it next week so it's going down guys also want to do the first little showing of the shifter he just sent me the shifter the other day so let me grab that also want to note that when you get parts from John it's it's pretty cool because he always puts a little something special in the box the other day when he sent me the t-shirts and some of the magazines that he actually put frostbite in his shop magazine and I'm mad because I don't have one with me right now they're all at home I wanted to show you guys that but he's got them on the shop and the next video I put up I'm gonna try to bring a magazine with me so you guys can check it out but usually in his boxes he'll usually throw some tootsie rolls in there write some little notes or whatever definitely pretty cool like right here he's got on the inside of the box go fast parts damn right so anyway guys this is the shifter that is going in frostbite absolutely awesome very super light this thing doesn't weigh hardly anything it's very very light from what I can tell this is billet aluminum basically is what it's made out of everything super super light it's been a long time since I've had a ratchet type of shifter so getting used to this is obviously gonna take me a little time but in a nutshell it's basically a ratchet shifter more or less and it's a pistol grip as you can see and I did not bring the electrical buttons or the switches that will be mounted to the handle I thought I did but they're actually in they're actually at the house so anyway this screw would come out and there's a half handle that screws down right here that has two buttons basically one button will be kind of up here on the top next to this button so it'll be pushed over to the side right here and then there's a button that's kind of at a 45 degree angle right here coming up the side now basically one of those buttons is going to operate the trans brake that he has installed in the transmission and the other button will operate the overdrive feature so everything on this transmission as he's going to explain and how you know what I've already told you guys about it this is a full manual valve body transmission this transmission it's an automatic transmission but it will not shift any gears whatsoever by itself it's full manual and what that means is every single gear you see here as you see the shifters marked park neutral reverse first second third fourth I have to physically manually shift each one of those positions so it's gonna be fun frostbite is gonna be a blast to drive because we're gonna have the automatic transmission but we're gonna be actually operating those gears manually so there's gonna be a lot more filling involved in racing this truck we're gonna be a little bit more in tune with it as we're banging gears now and everything so it's gonna be a blast and then just driving on the street you know everybody loves everybody loves to drive a manual especially a little hot rod or whatever sometimes having a clutch though gets kind of tiring especially on the street and this gives you kind of best of both worlds you don't have a clutch you don't have a clutch pedal or none of that junk it's still an automatic but all you got to do is shift the gears manually with the shifter so basically I'm gonna kind of show you a little rundown here of let me get over here how this thing will work and again guys I'm getting used to it probably gonna have to have John show me the way he operates this thing the best because he's used to him but obviously in in park right here you would squeeze the pistol grip in front of us right here and then that would bring you back to neutral or reverse now how reverse works on my transmission that he's building is it incorporates the trans brake so if we're a neutral right here and you see it's marked for reverse I would shift back here to neutral and if I want reverse I would shift to the same spot but I have to hold the trans brake to activate the reverse so you have to be in this position and then you have to activate the trans brake button so it'll shift into reverse now obviously the trans brake function works when you're in first gear when you're actually gonna launch the truck more or less but when it's in neutral or the reverse spot the trans brake will operate the actual reverse gear for the truck so that is that and then to go down the first you would actually squeeze you push down this top button and squeeze right here to get to first gear so now we're in first gear so more or less how this is gonna work say we're at the staging lines and we're staged at the tree we're gonna have the shifter handle here we're gonna have the trans brake button mashed and we're gonna get on the gas pedal and the engine's gonna rev and we'll build a rev the motor as high as we want but the truck will not move anywhere as long as this trans brake button is mashed and we're in first gear so soon as I want as soon as I go with the button up here the truck is gonna launch and then when it's time to go to second gear all we do is we simply grab this thing we're in second gear now and the truck's gonna be pulling pulling pulling and then when it's time to go to third we'll ease up on the pressure pull it back to third same thing we're doing the pull and when it's time to go to fourth we're gonna ease up pull straight back now we're in fourth gear and hopefully we're hauling some major ass but that is that now again it's full manual so now we're in fourth gear we're gonna be slowing down so we're actually gonna have to squeeze this go to third we got to downshift this thing again it's full manual all the up shifting and all the down shifting is up to me I have to do everything so if we need to go to second we're gonna go down a second we're gonna go down the first we're gonna go to first same thing bring go to neutral or reverse and then back to park everything is up to me I have to do this all myself no more computer stuff with this transmission at all so that's pretty much how it is how it's gonna work and again this is gonna look awesome in the truck it's gonna be super badass fun driving the truck with this thing especially once we get used to it you know not gonna lie it's a little bit intimidating but I've I've had some shifters like this before on other trucks and it just takes time to get used to them so so heck yeah guys there you go that is the shifter we're gonna be running in the truck again I'm kind of mad I didn't bring the actual buttons and everything that we're gonna be mounting on this I'll show them in another video and on the install of this you know when you're trying to keep the truck look stock or you know slightly OEM still it's very hard to try to go to a shifter like this and a transmission like we're running and try to keep it looking OEM so the other day I was messing with it we were trying to come up with a way to mount this in the factory console I've came up with an idea of what I'm gonna do that may not be what a what some other people will do there's a guy on Instagram that hit me up and he did a fabulous job of installing it wasn't this type of shifter it was a ratchet it was a ratchet type shifter but believe his shifter is actually a little smaller in this this shifter actually has a lot of body and a lot of movement how it works so it takes up a lot of space and after looking at my console and trying to come up with a way to basically hack it up and make this look as OEM as possible minus all this sticking out of it it there's just not enough material in the factory console which is you know has the cup holder the factory location where the factory shifter was there's just not enough material to mount this in there you know on top of it under it anything there's just no way to really mount it and it looked right not only that I just didn't like the way it felt trying to put it exactly where the factory spot was because again this thing is so big the height for this matters a lot and when I laid my arm on my console my center console I want to be able to grab this very easily you know I want my elbow on my console roughly and I want to be able to grab this very easily so the height is very important and then also the reach when you're shifting this thing you know as this goes back this thing has a lot of reach so as you go back the handle is kind of getting lower so you don't want to be like cramping up your wrist and everything by the time you're getting to you know fourth gear so what I'm gonna do and once I get it completely more or less completely fabbed up and finished I'll do a I'll do a video on how I did it but quickly what I'm gonna what I'll go over is basically the stock shifter is out the cup holder the whole plastic insert cup holder section is out and won't be coming back basically I'm gonna keep my entire center console but it's gonna be completely gutted in the center and what I'm doing I thought about using a piece of flat aluminum aluminum plating or just a sheet of aluminum I hate to say that was actually a Dodge Dakota with the worst sounding fart can I've ever heard holy moly that hurt my head anyways what I'm gonna do I thought about using a sheet of aluminum to basically just lay over my console and then I was either gonna carpet that aluminum or wrap it in some leather or something but I was kind of wondering on the the noise effect I'm gonna get with that and also the flex you know a piece of quarter inch aluminum would probably be pretty stout but we're talking about a big square with a big opening underneath it so there might be some wobbling there and I really don't want to deal with any that so what I'm gonna do and what I've started doing already I'm gonna use a piece of MDF board I'm gonna use a piece of half inch a sheet of half inch MDF board and I've already shaped it I got to do the sanding still got it I drilled my holes out and everything I got the the location and everything how it's gonna mount and again I will go over how I'm mounting it to my console and most likely I'm gonna actually have I'm gonna wrap that sheet of MDF probably in leather that pretty much closely matches the interior of the truck like the seats or anything and probably gonna actually have my wife do it she actually redid our seats on the golf cart that I use when I go to the racetrack she's pretty good with that stuff she actually wrapped the redid the seats and leather we actually did two tone colors so probably gonna have her actually probably gonna actually have her wrap the piece of MDF board but once it's done again it's not gonna look factory but it's gonna look good enough for me and it's gonna function that's the biggest thing is it's gonna function the shifter is gonna be exactly where I want it and it's gonna be as close to stock as I can keep it again I'm not gutting this truck we got full interior in it matter of fact the other day when we ran the truck and blew the transmission absolutely full weight passenger seat all the interior everything was in the truck absolutely everything everything in the back of the truck I actually have put back in the toolbox carrier in the back the back paneling everything is in the truck and the 11-8 we ran when we actually blew the trans and still ran 11-8 that was completely full weight and probably the heaviest the trucks been in a long time usually I race with a passenger seat out in the whole back of the truck gutted we had everything in the truck that night and still currently do and that's probably how I'm gonna race the truck the remainder of the season we might gut it down a little bit but you know I don't want to have to gut my truck you know I don't want to take off mirrors and rip out carpet and all that stuff I want the truck to look like a truck and I want to go fast you know I think we can go tens with this truck after the transmission full weight I don't see why we can't I think it's gonna be very possible once we get everything dialed in I get used to it I think we're gonna go tens full weight very easily so that's my opinion that's what I think that's my goal so so yeah definitely stay tuned for when I do the video on how I actually mount this into the truck and we do the wrapping on the board whether we go with leather or like a carpet or something like that I'm pretty stuck on I think the leather we're probably gonna go with some sort of a leather or a pleather maybe a Nate gonna be real leather but you get the idea there he goes guys there's this shift or there's the plans again like I said we're gonna try to do this next week me my son and most one of my best friends is actually going to make the drive with me 12 hour drive from my house here in Georgia all the way to Indiana and CRT cope racing transmissions is literally up there at the top if he's really close to Chicago which he's actually talked about wanting to take me to Chicago to get some real pizza and a real hot dog so I guess we're gonna be doing that too is as well as throwing in a transmission but I can't wait to get up there John's got a awesome shop he's got tons of knowledge that a lot of people wish they probably had a quarter of and he's just all around a good dude and again I'm super super thankful and super stoked that CRT and John cope is helping out my little old truck frostbite to get to the next level and again I can't even think of enough but that is the plan guys stay tuned we got a road trip coming next next week we'll probably go live during that trip and see you know see how the trip's going hope our trip goes good and we don't have any issues getting up there and back it's a long ride and honestly I can't tell you the last time or if I've actually ever driven 12 hours in a day so that's gonna be probably a little rough last longest trip I took was to Moe party which was about a six and a half hour drive from my house to Kentucky up where they did Moe party at beach bend and I love driving but I'll be the first one to tell you that sitting there driving continuously like that it wears me out and definitely hard for me to punch through about six or seven hours so 12 hours is gonna be rough but I think we're gonna make it fun so oh my god there's a far can again that Dakota sounds so terrible I just it hurts my feelings it hurts my feelings I know I know it's a v6 but good Lord he's got like huge 10-inch tips hanging out of the back of this thing anyway that's that so as always guys stay safe out there hey don't forget hit that subscribe button it's free it don't cost anything so make sure you're subscribed to the channel help support the truck me CRT torque storm superchargers come and hang out with us also don't forget hit that like button and as always guys stay safe we'll see you on the next one peace