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Re: <all> shifting w/o the clutch / '89 M3 shifting
- Subject: Re: <all> shifting w/o the clutch / '89 M3 shifting
- From: "Brant M. Miller" <brant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 21:24:53 -0400
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>Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 22:47:51 -0400
From: Ben Keyes <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: <all> shifting w/o the clutch / '89 M3 shifting
I have done this on almost every manual trans car I've ever driven on
upshifts.<
Ben - a few years ago a driver won the main event at Cotati in a Birdcage=
Maserati after blowing the clutch on the start. All shifting was done
clutchless. I was at an impressionable age and drove the family Chevy ho=
me
without use of the clutch, except to accommodate full stops. The trick i=
s
to just match the revs before attempting to engage the gears. Syncros ar=
e
not relevant, except that good ones may prevent an inept attempt at
clutchless shifting from destroying the transmission.
Brant
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