POLL: can you drive stick shift? and if you can...

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
If you notice, the young people on most message boards do everything that young idiots everywhere else do, yet they don't want to be stereotyped. The car forum I frequent used to be more mature, but with the cars getting older and the price dropping, we're getting plenty of people who ask ridiculous kiddie questions like "can I put lambo doors on my Z", or "how do I double-clutch my Z?". It's funny how people in the previous years didn't talk about that crap, but with the younger kids buying the cars and watching 2F2F, they bring that "scene" with them.

Um k there "old salty"
Im 34 years old been racing cars since I was tall enough to touch the pedals..
i have never even seen the "slow and the slugish" or the sequel.
I was taught this tehcnique in the 70s when it had to be done...
on some high performance racing 5 and 6 speeds its still a good idea to do as it keeps those synchos from eating themeslves...
dunno the last time you had to tear down a tremac or other world class tranny but gears are expensive.. I still use these techniques and they do work and seem to increase the life on my trannies that I beat the crap out of every time I get in the car...

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: SampSon
I triple fly clutch.

me too.

 

[GroundZero]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Double clutching is an old term made popular by lame movies like the Fast the & Furious. If you see some racerboy claim that he double clutches around town all the time, you know he'a a loser and he really needs something on him to be checked.

For those who don't know, double-clutching was needed on very old manual transmissions without synchros. All modern manual transmissions have synchros eliminating the need for double-clutching.

Most young idiots do it "because its kewl", and then crash their car into a tree.

but they have to double clutch, especially since they put that folgers can on the tailpipe and the tailfin from a 747 on their pos honda. they have got to double clutch when they are going to hit their "double shot of NAWS" while watching all the guages , that they stole out of the cockpit of the forementioned 747, monitoring their big bad 4 banger.

so get off their cases and let the little bastards hit that oak tree and make the road safer for real drivers.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Wadded Beef
(yes i know it's called double de-clutch downshifting but we'll call it double clutching for simplicity's sake)

hmmm no it's double de-clutching overseas, England anyway.....


it's always really on the downshift.


heel to toe is hard in many cars, almost impossible in some as a passenger car != race car.

I drive pretty freaking crazy and don't waste time with a lot of this on the street. Technical people aside not much enjoyment to me in extra work.

If money was at stake, then yeah.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: freegeeks
I can quadruple shift WITHOUT using my foot

Can you shift with your *****, like the girl in the link warcrow (?) had?

That vid was awesome! I still have it on my computer at home.

*perk* link?

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Vic
The very first rule of performance driving is to never take a corner in neutral or with the clutch in. Never. The engine torque on the wheels helps maintain better grip on the road through the corner, and control as variations of the throttle can shift weight balance forward and back, and every corner has its particular gear for best performance. The reality is that riding in neutral through a corner in a torquey RWD car is more likely to break the rear loose as too much weight would shift forward.

QFT.

Coasting through a corner just feels wrong. You should not be braking very far into the corner and if you're not on the gas before the apex, you're doing something very wrong.

ZV

 

[alkemyst]

double clutching was created by Dom (Vin Diesel)...

internet was created by Al (Al Gore)...

 

[otispunkmeyer]

meh i just drive normally.

i can get a pretty smooth change anyways, as in if you wernt watching what i was doing you wouldnt know i changed gear (forgetting engine noise)