Anybody else downshift to reduce brake wear?
#49
09-06-2007 | 06:01 PM
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You should always gear down, but gently, and it does not have to be every gear... Time and experience will teach you. If you just use your brakes alone you will have premature break wear, warped rotors and other things; if you downshift to gears to low and do this often, there will be some clutch wear.
I always down-shift and have nearly 80K on my G, the clutch is great and I can still easily get rubber 3rd. gear; 1st. and 2nd. can get still you sideways if your not careful.
It's all relative
I always down-shift and have nearly 80K on my G, the clutch is great and I can still easily get rubber 3rd. gear; 1st. and 2nd. can get still you sideways if your not careful.
It's all relative
#50
09-06-2007 | 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by partyman66
Downshifting with the manual transmission in our cars isn't that effective of a braking mechanism because the drivetrain revs a little too freely to offer significant enough resistance to slow the vehicle down enough unless you really put it into a low gear so that your engine RPM's skyrocket up to like 5K(In my opinion). I have a 6MT and am very familiar with rev matching and down shifting to compression brake because I do it all the time in my truck and it works really well in that vehicle.... however, it is just flat-out not effective in the G as a means of braking.
I do keep the car in gear if I want to slow down so that the engine sorta offers a little resistance to help slow it down when I'm coasting towards a stop light from far away, and I do downshift(and rev match in the process) while approaching a corner so that I'm in the right gear for going into the corner, but that's about it on the G for messing with shifts on decelleration.
If you rev match and do it well, there isn't that much wear on your clutch. The part of the clutch that takes the most wear from rev-matched downshifts would be your throwout bearing since it's spinning at fairly high RPM's for a few tenths of a second per downshift. The plate itself should take very little wear though if you do it right, and the same can be said of the synchros in the transmission.
I do keep the car in gear if I want to slow down so that the engine sorta offers a little resistance to help slow it down when I'm coasting towards a stop light from far away, and I do downshift(and rev match in the process) while approaching a corner so that I'm in the right gear for going into the corner, but that's about it on the G for messing with shifts on decelleration.
If you rev match and do it well, there isn't that much wear on your clutch. The part of the clutch that takes the most wear from rev-matched downshifts would be your throwout bearing since it's spinning at fairly high RPM's for a few tenths of a second per downshift. The plate itself should take very little wear though if you do it right, and the same can be said of the synchros in the transmission.
#53
09-06-2007 | 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by falconey
You obviously don't get it.
I'm just saying that person behind you may not see the flames shooting out of your tail pipes and think you are traveling at a constsnt speed. Increasing the risk of them rear ending you because they were "busy" with cel phone, radio, make-up - whatever - and their peripheral vision didn't see "BRAKE LIGHTS". The Soft G35 paint does not stand up well to a minivan. (Does that sound like the voice of experience ?)
#55
09-06-2007 | 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by JOKER
^you don't exactly stop immediately when you down shift.
you just barely slow down.
wtf are you talking about?
you just barely slow down.
wtf are you talking about?
#56
09-06-2007 | 06:27 PM
Originally Posted by AbbotsfordG35
Maybe I'm just a highly skilled driver, but I can go from 60 to almost completely stopped in 3 blocks using only gears. Are you "simple" or something ?
#58
09-06-2007 | 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by JOKER
and in 3 block the car behind you will not realize that you are slowing down?????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????
#59
09-06-2007 | 06:38 PM
Originally Posted by AbbotsfordG35
By the way. I'm new here. We are all in the Brotherhood of G35 drivers. Why can't we get along ?
Who said that we aint getting along?
We are just arguing about the issue.
WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM YOU DUMB FVCK
I see what you saying but you got to be one dumb fvck not to notice a car slowing down for 3 straight blocks.
And if you are (some driver out there) that dumb fvck then I think you will run into someone else long before he even sees you down shifting.