GTP_WRS Week 86 : Floor It!

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Good thing you asked before trying it :)
Downshifting aggressively works well in GT6. It does help with braking and on RWD cars it increases rear brake bias (helps the car turn in under braking).

In real life the advantage of engine braking is not that big and is more used to avoid brake overheating. And you are risking overrevving the engine. When accelerating the engine management rev limiter protects you from going too far past the redline. When downshifting the engine speed depends on the speed of the car and the rev limiter is not going to help you.
Overrevved engine dies in very expensive way. That's why accidentally downshifting when you wanted to go a gear up is called "the moneyshift".
 
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Good thing you asked before trying it :)
Downshifting aggressively works well in GT6. It does help with braking and on RWD cars it increases rear brake bias (helps the car turn in under braking).

In real life the advantage of engine braking is not that big and is more used to avoid brake overheating. And you are risking overrevving the engine. When accelerating the engine management rev limiter protects you from going too far past the redline. When downshifting the engine speed depends on the speed of the car and the rev limiter is not going to help you.
Overrevved engine dies in very expensive way. That's why accidentally downshifting when you wanted to go a gear up is called "the moneyshift".
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If that's how you explain it, sooner or later my school bus driver is going to blow up the engine, he miss shifted 4 times today, 7 in total including the morning trip. :ill:
 
@Vitessekid Diesel engines are different. Bigger vehicles like that have Jake brakes which is just an engine brake that uses it to slow the truck down. Regular cars don't have those
 
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@Vitessekid Diesel engines are different. Bigger vehicles like that have Jake brakes which is just an engine brake that uses it to slow the truck down. Regular cars don't have those
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So... The engine won't blow up?

I definitely have a lot to learn when I enter the car world. My friend's brother had to study over 700 pages on an F3 car just to test it. 100 pages about the tyres! :eek::ouch:
 
Big rig engines are different than normal engines. Your basic manual or automatic hasa ppiece that allows the transmission to be placed into any gear at any mph. A heavy duty engine like your bus or a semi has, does not have the part. So the transmission has to be double clutched.. one clutch push to pull it out of gear and once more to put it back in.

With that said, at any given mph there are only a few gears that will work. (Talking about a standard 10 speed transmission) but to get the transmission into the gear, it has to be a certain rpm in neutral for the gear to line up and slip in. If its not on the correct range, it was won't go into gear no matter how hard you push.

So let's say you're traveling at 25 mph in 7th gear at 1,400 rpm.. to go to e
8th gear you would press clutch, pull into neutral, put gear in 8th around 1100 rpm. To go tup 6th instead, you would clutch to neutral, rev engine to about 1600 and put intogear

You can't over shift this way and allows a 3 stage engine retarder to assist in braking.
 
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