Lsantana954
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posted March 12, 2012 08:38 PM
electric or air shifter?
Looking to get an auto shifter and would like to get everyone who has personal experience with the 2. Pros and cons, i am aware in the price difference. I do like that the Pingel electric shifter can down shift as well as up.
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Seno
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posted March 13, 2012 04:18 AM
It's really a mixed bad...What will you be doing with the bike? If your riding on the street electric is a lot more "user friendly", no need for on board compressor or having to deal with making sure you have enough air for a day or riding around. If your drag racing it, air is the way to go. I know the Pingel can downshift, but will you really take advantage of it? Just my 2 cents. I had a holeshot electric shifter and it was descent, but the cable/linkage had to be adjusted occasionally.
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Lsantana954
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posted March 13, 2012 09:36 AM
It will be used for the strip with occasional street use
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'12 Gully Blue ZX14
-PCV/Guhl ECU/Blue CT Meg/<0 Alyson Oil/+8 Evil Arm/+1 Rear Sprocket
'07 Acura TL-S
'87 Buick Grand National
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glarior
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posted March 13, 2012 09:49 AM
I run air shifter but using my nitrous. Takes almost nothing to use. Friend uses a setup he made for air shifter and works great. Both are used for drag, land speed and street.
I have not used an electric setup so I can't compare.
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mathews
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posted March 13, 2012 11:40 AM
I have had my Pingle on two different bikes over a period of 7 years.Works great.It is bulky and their electronics suck.I ended up with an MPS auto-shift box and it works great
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BrucerZX14
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posted March 13, 2012 12:47 PM
 Edited By: BrucerZX14 on 13 Mar 2012 20:47
There's also a Dale Walker Power Shifter. It uses a large solenoid with cable attached to the shifter. Works good. I used one on an '03 Yamaha R1. Just gotta remember to turn it on. I went with air on the ZX14 because the solenoid is big and couldn't find a spot to install it.
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pazx14rider
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posted March 13, 2012 01:06 PM
I had the pingle electric on my 07 but didnt have the auto shift with it. I looked into it, but you needed the pingle auto shift box plus a dyna shift minder put all that together thats a heafty price to pay for the auto shift. I now have a MPS autoshift on my 2012. I have a Macintosh arm with the air tank, got a slime compressor from schnitz and the MPS auto shift box and both those units fit inside the battery compartment...I like my air shifter better than the Pingle fyi
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bigwil
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posted March 13, 2012 05:11 PM
high pressure shifter get 800 shifts from a 1lb bottle and if your running a powecomander you can just put a muti hub it has 2 rpm leads you can set any rpm to shift, set nos, a shift light. no pills no shift box no air compresser add all the
one santana to another
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