Gear Changing....

[R33]

Thanks mate for the compliment...you know, it is nicely tuned by Nagata San of Top Secret. Despite the mods and monster power, it is my daily driver to and fro work (circa 70km). Can's wait to see the result of your mod. Should be pushing 450-500 horses! Better perfect yoyr double clutching technique soon! But hey, with those mods, would you need double clutching?
Gonthrax: you are my official GEARCHANGE GOD!:smoka: :smoker2: :sun: :bandit: :silly2:

[WraithR32]

So to cap off, unless I really have my wires crossed, you do NOT double clutch when trying to go fast because you just slow down too much between gears.

The Fast & Furious movie has a lot to answer for!!!!

[[TWUBLE]]

Originally posted by WraithR32
The Fast & Furious movie has a lot to answer for!!!!

haha in soooo many ways!!

P.s. thats a phat front bumper!

[R33]

Twuble, thanks for the pics. Really smooooth car! Nice colour as well. Tell me, what is the stock turbo on the GTSt? Is it 2 or 2.5 litre! Is it 4 or 6 cylinders? Not many around here....

[WraithR32]

Cheers,
I hope to have the side skirts and rear caps for the Show day at Watene Reserve!!

[[TWUBLE]]

Originally posted by R33
Twuble, thanks for the pics. Really smooooth car! Nice colour as well. Tell me, what is the stock turbo on the GTSt? Is it 2 or 2.5 litre! Is it 4 or 6 cylinders? Not many around here....

Im not sure what the stock turbo is... i think the stock turbo is a single T28... but dont quote me on that...
its a 2 Litre 6 cylinders

yeah... i love her aye... she's a real nice colour and really well looked after!

[[TWUBLE]]

Originally posted by WraithR32
Cheers,
I hope to have the side skirts and rear caps for the Show day at Watene Reserve!!

Ooooohh whens that?

[WraithR32]

It is on 3rd March (Sunday) from 10am to 6pm.

Will be a BBQ, show and shine with prises for SDU members, games and so on!!

[[TWUBLE]]

sweet see you there!

[stainy]

ooo prizes

[darkness]

yep I'm in

[Gonthrax]

Originally posted by R33
Gonthrax: you are my official GEARCHANGE GOD!:smoka: :smoker2: :sun: :bandit: :silly2:

Why thank ya!

[Slip]

R33 - its best not to give advice when you don't know what you are talking about. If you are going hard, and shift quickly there wont be a big rpm gap. Your rpm will be lower at the same speed in the next gear anyway. Double clutching when upshiftin is also silly because you are spending time coasting.
With an awesome car like you have it deserves to be driven properly. Have you taken your cars to any track days? They are great fun and if you get a race driver/instructor to teach you some stuff its really handy (done this with drifting)


That picture / explanation was great dude.

Double clutching on downshifts also wears the clutch and gear sychros less.

[[TWUBLE]]

I wanna drift!

[R33]

Hi Slip, don't be too hard on me mate! I wasn't giving any advice to Twuble on the gearchange. In fact, I professed from the start that I am no expert! I was just giving my 2 cent's worth and as it turned out I was wrong. At least I learn something new!
However, I wouldn't say that I dunno how to drive my car either. Yes, I take advance driving lessons. And yes, I go to the track (the Sepang F1 track). And no, I have not crashed my car or other people's car on or off the track! FYI, my best time around that track is 2min 39 secs - which is 1 sec faster than the best lap recorded during the 12 hour endurance race at that track in 2000.
As for drifting, at first I thought there was something wrong with my car's handling! (that was a year ago). Now, i am begining to grasp the idea almost 3 times out of 5 I get it correctly done. But I must hasten to add, although drifting is fun, it is not the fastest way around the track!