Jeez, learning stick on this car is difficult!
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From: Metro Detroit, MI [Sterling Hts.]
OP, the g37 6MT was my first MT car, and coming off less than 250 miles of city/highway learning on weaker 4cyl cars, I can very much agree with you that this is a tough car to learn on. Like another guy said, once you learn on a G37, you should be have a quicker learning curve on most MT cars out there. Most that is.
I posted a 6MT veteran's guide on tips & suggestions to driving 6MT on a thread here a long while back. There's an attached Word .doc with the guide he made. Check it out. It helped me. Now, at about 20k miles, I can say I've came a long way.
https://www.myg37.com/forums/d-i-y-i...5-veteran.html
I posted a 6MT veteran's guide on tips & suggestions to driving 6MT on a thread here a long while back. There's an attached Word .doc with the guide he made. Check it out. It helped me. Now, at about 20k miles, I can say I've came a long way.
https://www.myg37.com/forums/d-i-y-i...5-veteran.html
DetroitG37Joe,
I read your post in the attached link and I've gotta say that I completely disagree with the person who wrote the post on one big point. Yes, it is true that you don't have to double clutch ANY modern vehicle because of the fact that the transmissions have synchronizers. But then he made this statement: "...Whoever is doing this, is seriously wasting their time because this doesnt "save" your transmission from abuse nor will it make it last longer...."
That's incorrect. Synchros can wear out, especially on a car that had been driven hard. If you know how to correctly double clutch, then you are essentially taking the synchros out of the equation entirely because you are matching the shaft speeds by yourself and not relying on the synchros. So while double clutch may not be neccessary, it does prevent wear on the synchros at the possible expense of additional wear on the throwout bearing. But the point here is that to say double clutching does nothing to "save" the transmission is wrong. I've owned several cars where my synchros were so shot that I had to double clutch to avoid the nasty grinding between shifts. And contraray to popular belief, the grinding you hear is never between the gears....it's actually the dog teeth of the synchronizers. See, the gear sets are in constant mesh, so it is impossible to make them grind. It's really all about the synchronizers and their ability to do their job....
I read your post in the attached link and I've gotta say that I completely disagree with the person who wrote the post on one big point. Yes, it is true that you don't have to double clutch ANY modern vehicle because of the fact that the transmissions have synchronizers. But then he made this statement: "...Whoever is doing this, is seriously wasting their time because this doesnt "save" your transmission from abuse nor will it make it last longer...."
That's incorrect. Synchros can wear out, especially on a car that had been driven hard. If you know how to correctly double clutch, then you are essentially taking the synchros out of the equation entirely because you are matching the shaft speeds by yourself and not relying on the synchros. So while double clutch may not be neccessary, it does prevent wear on the synchros at the possible expense of additional wear on the throwout bearing. But the point here is that to say double clutching does nothing to "save" the transmission is wrong. I've owned several cars where my synchros were so shot that I had to double clutch to avoid the nasty grinding between shifts. And contraray to popular belief, the grinding you hear is never between the gears....it's actually the dog teeth of the synchronizers. See, the gear sets are in constant mesh, so it is impossible to make them grind. It's really all about the synchronizers and their ability to do their job....
Really? Seems a little high to me. I usually get going and clutch out at around 800-900rpm from 0-1st.
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