Sorry, havn't been on in a while.
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Originally Posted by E. Honda
- First of all, will depressing the clutch slightly at a stop wear on the throw-out bearing? My previous car didn't have a dead pedal so consequently I picked up a habit of (lightly) resting my foot on the clutch at lights. I'm trying to break this habit but in the meantime it be nice to know if I'm slowly killing my clutch or not.
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Yea never "ride the clutch" It is bad on the throwout bearing. How bad, i dont really know, never really looked into it. Just doing it at lights should be fine cause your at low RPMS. Its when you do it 24/7 is where i can see bad things happening.
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Originally Posted by E. Honda
- Second question; how bad is slam shifting for the transmission? That is, pushing the stick into gear before feeling it "open." Even with perfect rev-matching, I notice more resistance when shifting at my fastest than when waiting that extra half second when getting in gear.
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Yea dont shift fast if you dont have to. The faster you shift the faster the synchro's have to line up the dog gears so they can fit together so the more wear. I just pull it back softly when i drive, when i drive like a normal person that is
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Originally Posted by E. Honda
- Third, I keep hearing about clutch-less shifting, and it'd be a neat trick to learn (on a beater, not the Si) for the hell of it, but the whole concept seems like asking for trouble. How's this done and does it have any practical use aside from impressing my friends?
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Its like this. Lets say you shift each gear @ 3k RPM. You know each gear will fall about to 2200-2500 so you want to put the shifter into the next gear where you think the RPM would be, within that range. Start out like that, then once you can pretty much off the top of your head know about what RPM each gear should be at, at any MPH then you can really shift w/o the clutch.
Oh, and bump