I Need to Learn Manual

Kurosaki Issen · Shift Worker Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 47

If anything will get me to buy a racing game this will. It's got clutch petals with resistance and pressure sensitive brakes. Jump the link for full specs.

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James · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:45 am Post subject: DUDE!!!

Rev to redline then drop the clutch... simple as that... as long as there are no cops there Razz

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Kurosaki Issen · Shift Worker Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 47

I'm quite sure there's more to it than that. Anyways, hopefully I'll get enough lessons by the end of the year *cough* joel *cough*. My fault cause I keep getting sidetracked.
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Aranthos · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject:

I can't even drive yet, and I know how to change gear in a stickshift (without ripping the cogs to pieces).

Rev up to such a point where torque at the wheels will be the same before and after the shift. This usually means about 1500 revs or so above peak torque. Press the clutch pedal firmly, and move the gear lever to the appropriate position. This bit takes practice... Raise the clutch pedal again, but at such a rate that the drive is gradually taken up, rather than being reapplied very suddenly. In certain forms of driving (read: Italian) it isn't uncommon to either release the clutch by sliding the foot off the pedal sideways, applying lots of force to all the moving bits underneath the car at once, or simply not bothering with it at all and wrenching the gear lever from one gear to the next. Please note that both of those options can have a disastrous effect on a car's moving bits. An Aston Martin Vantage (commonly agreed to have moving bits tougher than the average dumper truck) only survived 7 launches with the foot-sideways-off-the-pedal method before its moving bits spewed all over the floor, and ceased moving.

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