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What's your take on...
Shifting with no clutch??
I learned to do it when I first started driving cause the car had a terrible clutch.
I now have a new car with a perfectly good clutch... but sometimes I just don't feel like clutchin it
I don't grind the gears, it shifts smooth.... and I just put it in N and brake when stopping.
Just wanted to know if anyone else is lazy like me and does this.
Why or why not?
I learned to do it when I first started driving cause the car had a terrible clutch.
I now have a new car with a perfectly good clutch... but sometimes I just don't feel like clutchin it
I don't grind the gears, it shifts smooth.... and I just put it in N and brake when stopping.
Just wanted to know if anyone else is lazy like me and does this.
Why or why not?
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wow. you mean rev-matching is used by more than one person? thats amazing. 
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I drove literally a month without using the clutch since my slave cylinder died, then my master. When I would come to a stop, I'd turn it off, then leave it in first till I had to start going.
To shift, I would rev match. It felt weird actually using a clutch again once I fixed it. Occasionally I try not using it as well.
To shift, I would rev match. It felt weird actually using a clutch again once I fixed it. Occasionally I try not using it as well.
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I drove literally a month without using the clutch since my slave cylinder died, then my master. When I would come to a stop, I'd turn it off, then leave it in first till I had to start going.
To shift, I would rev match. It felt weird actually using a clutch again once I fixed it. Occasionally I try not using it as well.
To shift, I would rev match. It felt weird actually using a clutch again once I fixed it. Occasionally I try not using it as well.
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I drove literally a month without using the clutch since my slave cylinder died, then my master. When I would come to a stop, I'd turn it off, then leave it in first till I had to start going.
To shift, I would rev match. It felt weird actually using a clutch again once I fixed it. Occasionally I try not using it as well.
To shift, I would rev match. It felt weird actually using a clutch again once I fixed it. Occasionally I try not using it as well.
so would you use the starter to move the car up to speed in 1st gear? what would you do to initiallyD get it moving?
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Oh, I rev match regardless. Always. Both down and up-shifting, and I engine brake everywhere. There are actually a few "no engine brakes" signs around Venice...but it doesnt say "no engine braking" so I have my way with it
Yes. When the light turned green, the car would be in first, and I would start it. It would lunge forward and just be "normal" from there on out...till I had to stop again
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Those " no engine brake" signs are for semis. when u "engine brake" thats down shifting. semi trucks have real engine brakes thats called a "Jake Brake" it uses compression to slow the engine. if u think u hear semis down shifting when they stop its most likely the jake brakes
so feel free to downshift all u want in venice buddy as long as ur in a car its all good.
so feel free to downshift all u want in venice buddy as long as ur in a car its all good.
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I know what an engine brake is, how it works, and that semis use it. I believe technically its illegal to engine brake in Florida anyways with cars and such.
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