wow..

 

you have a problem? you guys are over-reacting. I only asked how it worked, big deal

 

we are not over reacting you are dumb for asking how to use manual mode on the AT

its VERY simple, the engine revs up and you shift. you can shift(up or down) whenever you want depending on your current driving mood. I just don't understand how something so simple can confuse someone.

for all your questions and misunderstanding you really should just leave it in drive.

 

wow... this is full with fail. Take a driving class dude. No offense that you're new, but you're asking dumbest questions several times. Take a class so you can understand what gears are even for in a car and how they work, at least you won't get flamed for having no idea how the car that you drive operates lol.

 

5th gear on the 5AT is not an overdrive gear. We don't have an overdrive in our cars. Furthermore, the shift delay is nowhere near as long as you make it seem. I know the 5AT was revised in 2005.5, so maybe older Zs are slower, but my 06 responds almost immediately during a shift. Besides, the actual shift happens very quick, it's just the electrical delay that some have mentioned on their older Zs, and I'd attribute that possibly to grounds (people swear up and down the car shifts much quicker with a ground kit). I almost never bounce off the redline. And in 3rd gear, to climb 500RPMs toward redline is a pretty good amount to climb and takes a few seconds - so shifting as early as you say is pointless.

If you wanted to shift at redline in 3rd gear I'd probably give the car 100-200RPMs before the shift (if even). Only in 1st gear would I recommend shifting a bit early to make up for any electrical delay. Also, there is no jerk in the revised 5ATs, as they rev-match on every downshift. And redline is actually 6650 on VQ35DEs.

 

LOL



wow

 

you are wrong. Most car manufactured nowadays will have overdrive gear, which is the highest gear available. Only car that doesn't have overdrive are one that manufactured before 1980 [Source].

Look at the gear ratio for both 6mt and 5at in the attached pic. 5th gear and 6th gear are always the overdrive gear. It's there to save gas by operate the engine at low rpm and for cruising on highway/street, anywhere when speed is above 30mph. This is why the MPG for any auto is less than a manual. Example, in the Z, mpg for highway in 5AT is around 20mpg and 6MT is 25mpg. That is because at 80mph, engine is operate at 3000rpm in 5AT. in 6MT, engine is operate around 2700-2800rpm. Less rpm save gas.

 

I agree, i dont know what you guys are all tripping out on, the manumatic has built in fail safes to prevent it from being damaged, and the engine has a rev limiter. The only way you can damage your car by downshifting or not knowing when to shift is by losing control and crashing.

 

are you freakin serious? Do you even know what a transmission is?

 

You have a valid point, but allow me to clarify: the 5th gear in the 5AT isn't a typical overdrive gear. My car accelerates very briskly in 5th gear, where as in other cars, the transmission has a tendency to lock and not allow you to accelerate until you turn OD off (going/sticking to 3rd gear, usually), or just pushing the throttle more until the car downshifts. My Maxima had a 4-speed with OD, and simply put, the 350Z's 5AT is absolutely nothing like that. In the Maxima, there was no such thing as brisk acceleration in 4th gear - that was purely an OD gear - you had get the car into 3rd to do that.

Yes, the gear ratio is below 1.0 in the 350Z, but it locks RPMs to conserve gas electronically and only in D - where as OD engagement before relied on an actual unit within the transmission, I don't believe this is the case anymore, a lot of cars are relying on the ECUs now. And in the 5AT if you're in the Manual Mode, the RPM needle is free to bounce around while you cruise, it's not locked or unresponsive, like an OD gear normally is.

Basically, my point is that the 5AT 350Z's 5th gear is not just an overdrive gear for economy and cruising. It's actually a solid gear for making highway passes no problems.

 

If this is some sort of joke, I was not in the loop and don't get it at all.

If this is not a joke...well, it has to be a joke. No way did you just tell someone that they can't drive their car in the highest gear on the highway...that's what the gear is for. Hmmmm...back to my first point...what did I miss that made your post humorous?

 

I see your point. Agreed that the 5th gear is also great for passing. It's even greater after my Osiris tuned. The acceleration is top notch and very quick even in D.

 

this thread completely blows my mind, i feel like i'm in the twilight zone

 

WELCOME

 

I was driving home from the gym this morning, and almost recorded myself driving just to post it here.
Haha, he is a troll. He as to be.

 

naw he is not. He's a 22 years old french-canadian who is a hockey fan and drive an auto convertible 05 Z. At least he speak better English than most 17 yrs old American on this forum

http://forums.nicoclub.com/which-mod...z-t430034.html

 

Haha thanks man. And in reality i am 19 years old, i probably just entered a fake birthday on this website... But yup, i am a french canadian from Montreal lol

 

They clowned on him there too lol.


Maybe that's why he came over here.
Seems like we're a rougher crowd though.

 

Yep, same here.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIS5n...layer_embedded
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