rev match?

 

Oh ok, I thought he was talking about it was bad to do that while rev matching.

 

What is rev matching???

-Chrismcagle

 

Yeah what is rev matching? I read the article on how do drive a manual and I get most things, but when you shift gears do you slam on the clutch shift and ease out slowly, how do you go from a dead stop to get the thing rolling. I really want a manual to be my next car. So far I know how to turn one on hehe. pop it in netural, but your foot on the break + cluch, release the break (make sure your in neutral) and slow let the clutch out. hehe got this down, but how do you actually move the thing!

 

Well, if you don't give it a little gas as you're letting out the clutch, you're most likely going to stall. So what I usually do is rev to about 1500 RPMs....let the clutch out slowly.....and give it more gas as i let the clutch out further....but not too much.....or you start burning the clutch.

As for rev matching, I believe that's refering to tapping the gas in between gears when down-shifting. This gets the engine RPMs up to where the transmission RPMs will be in the lower gear. If you didn't do this, the car would jerk when you down-shifted as they tried to match speeds.

 

Ahhh.. ok, that's what I thought, I just wasn't sure. I'll have to try that on the way home from work today.

-Chrismcagle