+1. Once you get the feel for the clutch its cake.

 

AWD does not take a liking to clutch dumps and extreme powershifting. Unless you really can't drive worth a poo, I think you'll be fine learning to drive a stick-shift on an STi. Just take it slow and don't get too frustrated.

 

powershifting is when you keep the gas down and shift right?

 

no... jesus that poor STi

Powershifting is just a really fast shift. What your talking about is a guaranteed tranny rebuild, and hopefully AWD meltdown so you learn a valuable lesson.

New cars with high HP are not to be fucked with.

 

Let me see if I'm remembering this correctly...

You are the 16 year old who has been driving for about half a year and whose parents will buy him any car he wants? And recently posted that you want to get the ESX Sti?

If your parents can afford to let you buy anything, how about they buy you a crappy 5 speed to learn on for a few months, then you can trade that in on the nice car that you will end up getting.

I learned on a WRX. It was tough at times. For someone who really isn't very experienced driving anything to try to learn a stick on a moddified STi is just asking to get involved in some bad situations. Rev that thing too high because you keep stalling out, and you may get going (in boost) right into someone's bumper.

 

This is sad, I cant have an STI at the moment because of the price, I love my wrx and can drive it very well. Now there is someone else that has his parents pay for an STI when he cant even drive stick. Fuck.

 

not correct...1 I worked hard for my grades... 2 my parents arent giving me much i paid for my prelude and have 7k saved up from my job so thats about 15k ill have cash to put down... they will onlt probally give me 10k so ill be financing the rest

 

Driving a stick really isn't that hard. It's a performance car, im SURE the components can handle a little learning. It's ment to be driven hard. Keep it in the neighborhood until you've got it figured out and you wont be boosting into anyone's bumper.

 

Sweet I'll be PM'ing you for parts off your totaled STi shortly.

I'll give you some advice hoping that you will be giving me some great prices on those parts.

First, read up on how all components of a manual transmission work. This way in your mind you can understand what exactly is going on when you are working with the clutch, gears, gas, etc.

Next find a parking lot and go to the flat area. Put the car in gear and let the clutch out extremely slowly with NO gas. You will not stall out, just let it out inch by inch. This will teach you when the clutch grabs. You will start to feel it grab and the car start to lurch forward. Keep letting it out until it is completely out and the car is rolling. You have now successfully shifted into gear and gotten the car moving. Now repeat until you have a good feel for when the clutch engages. After you are good with that you can begin applying throttle while disengaging the clutch. If at any point you feel like your going to stall, immediately put the clutch back in and start over.

Once your are comfortable with engaging 1st with throttle find a portion of the parking lot with a nice incline. You can start off with smaller ones then work to deeper sloping inclines. Do as you where doing before but this time on a slope. Start by using the ebrake to hold you in place then lower it down once you feel the car learch forward. Eventually you will be comfortable enough that you don't need the ebrake and you can do everything quickly enough by just releasing the foot brake.

That's pretty much all there is to it. You can learn rev-matching/heel toeing later down the road. Do not powershift or dump the clutch and the tranny will be fine for many miles to come.

 

I guess I'm probably the only one that thinks an STi may be a little much for someone with your lack of experience behind the wheel. Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you a BAD driver but for someone that has not had a good amount of time behind the wheel and has no idea how to drive a stick to jump into a $30k high HP, almost monster of a car seems to be a bad idea. The amount of power an STi brings to the table + the over confidence I'm sure the idea of AWD is giving you + little or no manual experience is going to equal a bad experience either for you or for whoever you injur. I recommend that if your dead set on a Subaru you should either save your money for now and buy a regular '06 WRX or even save a few more pennies and find a nice low mileage 04/05 regular WRX. Learn it's in's and out's, learn the tranny, learn to drive, learn what the in & outs are of AWD and then when your ready seeing as it seems you have access to money and work, upgrade the WRX here and there for more power. The WRX may not be a beast like the STi right off the lot but it offers plenty of power/handling compared to other cars in it's category and it is easily modified down the road when you've learned to handle her/drive her like she was meant to be.

Just my opinion, probably go in one ear and out the other but it just seems that the STi is alot of car for someone with your lack of experience and someone looking to learn.