Proper Shifting Technique

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McLaren'sAngel
Hiya! :D :O :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

Is this hard on the transmission? :odd:
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Yes, yes it is.
"My W58 was holding up just fine until I started flat-changing it. An R154 will probably break with that sort of treatment as well!"
(yes, that is a W57, he broke the W58 earlier.)
(flat-changing = Aussie for powershifting.)
 
McLaren'sAngel
Hiya! :D :O :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

Is this hard on the transmission? :odd:
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Yes, it's hard on the transmission, and also you run a huge chance of severely over-revving the engine if you bobble a shift.
 
:confused: Geez I think I'll either buy a crummy manual car and practice before buying a proper car next time round or go to driving school or something... (Somebody mentioned improper shift points in automatics I believe... I feel that everyday... Car loses power... for a while... then a small jerk of changing gears then a feeling that the car is finally in the right gear... Can't it time it right? Always shifting way too early...)
 
blargonator
speaking of shifting, do any of you guys just shift without the clutch, rev-matching i think? you get off the throttle, pop it out into neutral, allow the revs to drop if you are upshifting and vice versa for downshifting, allow the revs to get to the point where it would normally be if you were to shift with the clutch and just push it into gear. honestly, i would rather buy a new clutch than buy a new transmission hahah but some people just like to experiment with fire i guess <8- P
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That's something I would never try. You have to know exactly when/how to shift to the next gear without destroying it.
 
well, it is obviously bad and could have catostrophic consequences to your car's transmission.....but i have seen my brother trying it and it was not as bad as you would expect, he was kind of sitting there trying to push it into gear but not really like forcing it and slowly going through the rev range he was expecting it to be in, at one point it started to go into gear and then his throttle work got a little off i guess and it kind of grinded for like a 30th of a second :scared: and then he just gave up on the idea and has not tried it since then.
 
So it turns out I don't really need to learn hell-toe afterall. I've never needed it while driving my car and I figure I wouldn't need to do it unless I was racing and really needed to get back on the gas quickly. In regular driving there is no need to rev the engine while breaking because you can just match revs with your foot off the break after you slow down.

I've been working hard at matching revs and I'm pretty good at it now for regular driving. I'm terrible at it for driving fast though. In fact, my shifting is VERY clunky when I really wind up the engine. When the tac is falling down from 8k and I shift into second I find that it usually doesn't fall far enough before I engage the engine.
 

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