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i do 1-3 after backing out of my driveway while the tranny is cold because 1-2 is a tad notchy, but other then that, i use all the gears.
i haven't really paid attention to the shiftpoint speeds, but i usually shift up
before 3.5k for normal accleration.
i haven't really paid attention to the shiftpoint speeds, but i usually shift up
before 3.5k for normal accleration.
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Originally Posted by Hotrod
The flywheel has nothing to do with it when the car is in Netural or when you have the clutch depressed. With the car in neutral and the clutch out the engine is not directly connected to output shaft of the trans. With the clutch depressed but in gear the flywheel is not connected to the trans via the pressure plate, and with the trans in neutral and the clutch in both the clutch and the gears in the trans are not engaged to the flywheel. In any event the flywheel will make no differnece. If you don't believe me go 30 miles an hour and put your car in neutral and let it roll. then do the same thing but also turn the engine off. There will be no difference since the flywheel in not directly connected to the output shaft in either case. The only effect a heavy flywheel has is when you launch hard and you get the extra energy stored in the added weight of the spining flywheel.
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Originally Posted by Hotrod
The flywheel has nothing to do with it when the car is in Netural or when you have the clutch depressed. With the car in neutral and the clutch out the engine is not directly connected to output shaft of the trans. With the clutch depressed but in gear the flywheel is not connected to the trans via the pressure plate, and with the trans in neutral and the clutch in both the clutch and the gears in the trans are not engaged to the flywheel. In any event the flywheel will make no differnece. If you don't believe me go 30 miles an hour and put your car in neutral and let it roll. then do the same thing but also turn the engine off. There will be no difference since the flywheel in not directly connected to the output shaft in either case. The only effect a heavy flywheel has is when you launch hard and you get the extra energy stored in the added weight of the spining flywheel.
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Why just waste the gas during your commute to work wherever you are in traffic??? Of course when the weather is cool enought to ride with the roof open & windows down I do like to shift higher than 3000RPM's, just to hear the exhaust sound, but the mileage does suffer some. 
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