After reading this page and implementing these techniques, i found that they greatly helped.


This is to prevent you from getting into the wrong gear when downshifting and blowing up your engine (something that can happen with most cars, and especially prevalant in the M3.. it's debated whether it's driver's error or the car's fault).

http://www.shortshifter.com/techniques2.htm

that's really interesting... thanks

yea those are really neat techinques. I actaully learned something, to think that I haven't always been shifting correctly. Maybe the next time I race Stealth I could win with the shifting.

Wait, I lost big time last time, so I doubt that! :)

How hard can it be to shift ??? Weird Americans....

do u still worry about over revving if u have a rev limiter?

do u still worry about over revving if u have a rev limiter? thing that cuts off ur revs or whatever

thats how my dad taught me to drive

That is exactly how I shift when I'm lazy...

Originally posted by CondomMan
do u still worry about over revving if u have a rev limiter? thing that cuts off ur revs or whatever

You don't have to worry about the gas pedal. You do have to worry about your tranny.

thats how i taught myself to race drive, comes from all my friends mis shifting in their honda's (good trannys to learn on) and other scc's

Originally posted by CondomMan
do u still worry about over revving if u have a rev limiter? thing that cuts off ur revs or whatever

how can you possibly over rev if you have a REV-LIMITER? or am i missing something...

Originally posted by LotusGT1
How hard can it be to shift ??? Weird Americans....

in case you're blind:

Originally posted by M3man
This is to prevent you from getting into the wrong gear when downshifting and blowing up your engine (something that can happen with most cars)

Originally posted by LYTLdiablo



how can you possibly over rev if you have a REV-LIMITER? or am i missing something...

no i'm just making sure i know what a rev-limiter is...basically like a governor but for revs right?

Originally posted by M3man


in case you're blind:



If he his blind, then he wouldn't see that either.. :D

thats UUC. it been up forever. and eurospec there's no shifting in the world that will make you beat me :D

Originally posted by Stealth
thats UUC. it been up forever. and eurospec there's no shifting in the world that will make you beat me :D

as goes the same to you...and ill do it n/a (yea i know the chain continues...shaman or countach will come)

If your engine has a limiter, you can't overrev it by holding it in one gear too long, but you can still do it by downshifting into the wrong gear (5th to 2nd at high speed).


heel'n'toe your way through life

Originally posted by persid
If your engine has a limiter, you can't overrev it by holding it in one gear too long, but you can still do it by downshifting into the wrong gear (5th to 2nd at high speed).




sure didn't know dat thanx!

haha ask symtrips about the beauty of 9300rpm and 1-2-3-2 :)

Yeah, I use that method in my 5-speed Integra; it works really smooth. I actually started out with the "full-fist manhandle" when I first got my license but found that this works a lot better and it's better on the engines in these high-rev twincam cars.

Originally posted by LYTLdiablo


as goes the same to you...and ill do it n/a (yea i know the chain continues...shaman or countach will come)

oh give me a break:rolleyes: . eurospec and i are freinds in real life

haha you act like im gonna hunt you down and race you for bragging rights...im just ****in around bro

Originally posted by Silverfish
Yeah, I use that method in my 5-speed Integra; it works really smooth. I actually started out with the "full-fist manhandle" when I first got my license but found that this works a lot better and it's better on the engines in these high-rev twincam cars.

yeah sym used to have a teg, that was a fun car..

I think he was trying to put up this file...

damn it won't load right.. stupid thing!

The only shift my car has trouble with is 2-3...and that's more an issue of me letting up on the clutch early when i'm driving it hard (might happen once every couple months :( ). I've never downshifted into 2nd instead of 4th...but occasionally will choose second instead of 3rd when I misjudge my exit speed from a corner...again a mental mistake. Is this shifting technique supposed to be faster in some way? My car has a natural tendancy to go from 2nd to 3rd on the upshift, so i've never had to hunt for it or anything...in fact, it won't allow me to go to first if I'm not almost at a complete dead stop. I'll give it a try for a few days and see how it goes though.

If you pull hard enough from 3-4 you can accidently yank it into 2nd if you hold the shifter the wrong way... learned that one the hard way :)

i dunno about ur cars, but for me the easiest shifts were upshifting 2-3, and 3-4. Downshifting was 4-3. When ur car is in neutral isn't i located between 3 and 4?