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What are your shifting habits? - 8/11/2006 5:17:23 PM

XtacY

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Curious how you guys drive your sticks. I'm rather lazy with it. I do things like skipping gears all the time.. for example I'll take off from a stoplight, rev 2nd all the way up to 4000+ RPM and then go right to 5th. Or when I downshift I'll go from 5th to 2nd. I skip around with gears all the time.. I dunno just became a habit over the years. Sometimes I rev the engine for fun so I can drop the clutch and floor it in 1st when taking off too. Though its hard to do this without burning out and then I get weird looks when I do, heh.

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RE: What are your shifting habits? - 8/11/2006 5:25:41 PM

sonicblue05

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i do the exact smething. probably why my gas milage keeps going down lol.

if i wanna go fast i rev it to redline and then shift. normal operation i shift aat about 3000-3500 rpms 1-3 then just go from there.

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RE: What are your shifting habits? - 8/11/2006 5:29:11 PM

fazm

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1st gear to 3500 or so, 2nd to 3000, then the rest at 2k.

track 6100, 6100, 6100 :)

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RE: What are your shifting habits? - 8/14/2006 1:19:18 PM

steve_stang

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I like to rev 2nd up to about 4000 and then go to 5th

or Rev 3rd up a little higher then go to 5th

I have also done 1-3-5

I like to switch it up a little bit, keeps me on my heel and toes

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RE: What are your shifting habits? - 8/14/2006 4:14:47 PM

german_mustang

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I would love to shift from 2nd directly to 5th, but apparently my synchronizer is not really synchronizing. I get a terrible noise the first times I tried that. I can only skip 1 gear. Does anybody else have this problem?
Mike

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RE: What are your shifting habits? - 8/14/2006 5:12:37 PM

HurricaneStang

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I shift just like fazm from 1st to 2nd bout 3500 and to 3rd about 3000 but i dont know any after that because i drive an automatic ha

that's right i been fake shifting all over the world

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RE: What are your shifting habits? - 8/14/2006 8:17:38 PM

SparkYZ

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quote:

ORIGINAL: german_mustang

I would love to shift from 2nd directly to 5th, but apparently my synchronizer is not really synchronizing. I get a terrible noise the first times I tried that. I can only skip 1 gear. Does anybody else have this problem?
Mike

I feel that 2nd to 5th is a large gap.
Isnt 5th overdrive?
Try 2nd to 4th....

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