I was going for 4th but hit 2nd and got a huge RPM spike, I engaged the clutch before the tach hit 8krpm. The car is driving fine and no CEL, think I am alright?

 

I shifted from 5th to 2nd doing about 80-85 by accident one night, tires squealed, VDC light came on and I immediately disengaged the clutch. RPM spiked to over 8k and really scared the crap out of me but no check engine light, damage to my Z or Stillen S/C. I thought for sure something would go boom but thank god it didn't. Thats the problem with short shifters sometimes It was an honest mistake that could happen to anyone. I am sure that your Z is fine since it was not running @ 8k rpm for long.

 

Yeah glad to hear similar experiance without issues, and you are S/C so I think it would be worse.

Thanks.

 

lol...be safe

 

Tell me about it, I was just trying to down shift to 4th coming off the interstate. I had a couple of cars behind which almost hit me then I got the WTF looks, it was embarrassing but for some reason the car would not engage into forth and threw me into second, my gears are very close with my short shifter. I have been real careful ever since.

 

atleast your finger didn't get stuck in the shifter too

 

ROFLMAO!! HAHAHAHAH.


yeah, i think the Z will let you get with a few bad mistakes like that maybe once or twice. Don't push your luck man.

 

Well I ended up having a bad trans and had it replaced under warranty right before I hit 60k, pushing over 70k now with 0 problems

 

.. being a new Z owner I ran into this problem quite often!! Luckily Im a good driver and clutched before it really caught. Hasent happened in a while now ... Scary nonetheless

 

This happend to me twice. Once when i was hauling *** down a mountain (Laurel Canyon for those of you in LA) and I shifted for 3rd, 6000rpms to 2nd... the RPMs shot up faster then I have ever seen. luckly I pressed the clutch right away... Im glad I had my traction on that time or else I would have been doing 360s donw the mountain. The second time was at the drag strip... same thing went from 3rd to second. again luckly nothin happend since I noticed it right away and pressed the clutch.

 

yeah i heard this happenes with short shifters. some rsx 6mt drivers go thru it too.

 

just be careful...some people shift down to use the clutch as a break sometimes...

 

What the ****? You cant use a clutch as a break...what kinda **** is this ? You downshift to engine brake...and its perfectly safe on the motor...

 

thats probably what he meant....i hope

 

I think he was just trying to state the obvious, give him a break

 

The same thing happened in my friend's Trans Am... luckily he had a the stock 10yr old clutch that slipped. Oh man did that stink, literally! I hope your Z is ok .

 

Your car should be ok (as long as it didnt spike for more then a second or two).
However, you may want to practice your shifting technique. Proper technique will prevent this from occuring again.

Cheers,

R350z

 

everytime when I downshift from 5th to 4th, I scared that I will mis-shift it to the 2nd..

 

I had that happen in the S twice. Was trying to hit 2cnd but it didn't want to go in so I tried again but hit first coming from third. Luckily I had 8200rpms so I wasn't to bad.

Lol I remember stalling a few times in the morning because for some reason a lot of S2000's don't like to go into 1st cold so I actually had it in 3rd lol

 

You should be OK, I have done it a couple of times.