Down shift to First gear grind?

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Jul 26, 2005 | 09:11 AM

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Rickdogg

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Originally Posted by Alberto

You people need to learn how your tranny's work-no $hit it wont go into 1st if you just push it in. Blip the gas and rev the motor so you just slide right in(rev match in) it will go smooth as butter...

I love racers

Jul 26, 2005 | 09:16 AM

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Alberto

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Originally Posted by Rickdogg

I love racers

Your way more hardcore than me-how the hell did you get under 3000lbs

Is the Z your daily driver?

Jul 26, 2005 | 09:21 AM

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Rickdogg

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Originally Posted by Alberto

Your way more hardcore than me-how the hell did you get under 3000lbs

Is the Z your daily driver?

The car is pretty much fully gutted with the exception of the dash. Checkout my cardomain page for the mods

The Z used to be my daily driver until I got my first ticket in it. It seems to be away from home a lot since my sponsors work on getting it exposure or it is being worked on in one way or another

Jul 26, 2005 | 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Alberto

+1 learn to double-clutch on the downshift.

But if you're throwing it into 1st for stop and go (i.e. sequential stop signs) then just come to a complete stop. Never jam the shifter into a gear... if you are shifting correctly you barely need any force at all.

Jul 26, 2005 | 01:58 PM

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MulhollandDrive

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Originally Posted by bkknight369

Anyone else have this? The car shifts very smoothly through the gears, but when I'm comming to a stop from a roll, and try to shift into first, there is some resistence, and some very light noise (hard to hear unless windows are down and music is off).

Ideas? Should I have the dealership look at it?

My car has ~3800 miles on it btw

As other have said, if it does not want to go into first you are going too fast to downshift, the synchro is working too hard. This is normal. Just wait for your speed to slow down or go in second. I agree that if you really need to downshift into any gear that is resisting you need to learn how to blip the throttle and downshift. For instance, if you are coming into your favorite sweeper and you know what gear you want, you need to know how to put in the clutch, blip -- rev match, downshift, release the clutch and power out of the curve. If you do this all of the time it becomes second nature.

As for gear grind. I am not sure that what posters here are calling gear grind is truly gear grind. The Z transmission does "clink" especially from first to second. You NEVER want to hear the sound of gear grind. It is loud and horrible.