Do you any of you guys experience a sort of clunking of the transmission when shifting? Usually it is going into second gear. But it seems the entire transmission clunks as if it was swinging a little bit.

 

lol welcome to our noisy *** tranny. ive owned two Z's both 04.5's and yes both had the same stupid clunk sound from time to time shifting at low rpms from 1st to 2nd.

 

normal

 

+1 on the normal...the 2nd gear clunk is one of the crappiest features of the tranny...at least the throws are nice and short.

NzZ

 

if, however it grinds going into high gears (5th / 6th) then worry. and take it to nissan - i got my new transmission (free) because of this problem ...

 

It does grind going into 5th and 6th sometimes. I guess I will get it checked out.

 

the clunk you hear shifting from 1st to 2nd on a VW is 10 ten times worst than the Z. i sold my 00 jetta cuz of that. btw..my 03 tranny don't clunk.

 

would putting a good synthetic oil in there help?

 

Clunk clunk clunk, all the way home.

100% normal. Unless it is GRRRRRRRRRinding into gears... normally 5th/6th or 3rd... I wouldn't worry about it.

 

Its just sometimes the transmission actually sound like its rocking down there. Not the shifter but the tranny itself.

 

i have an 05 and my 1st to 2nd always "clunks". I learned to live with it tho. Plus, it sort of goes away after the car warms up.

 

ya my 06 does it too. I know corvettes do it a lottt worse than the Z (C5 vettes at least). Since were on the subject of tranny noise, does anyone know if the Z has straight cut gears??? I know race cars(Le mans, etc) have them and they whine REALLY loud. The gears on the Z also whine, I doubt it has them but just wondering.