If SGP's new valve body upgrade is what is looks to be....an AT could very well be an MT killer....or I least I hope so.

And Neff...Daniels tranny seems to upshift at the same speed as mine. Its the downshifting where his really outperforms mine.

 

Actually, the 6MT is faster 0-60, 1/4 mile, and in other acceleration measures. Go read any road test by Car and Driver, Road and Track, Motor Trend, etc. and you'll see faster times for the 6MT versus the 5AT.

Now, whether or not every driver could match those times is another question.

 

6MTs can be slightly faster. But the Car and Driver guys are professional drivers, and take the best time after dozens of 0-60 trials.

Believe it or not, if you were to bring your car to the track and get timed, you wouldn't come anything near to the listed 5.5 0-60 that you see in the magazines, if not at least until a couple of trys, if at all.

 

Speak for yourself.

 

its impossible to shift faster then an auto tranny, the whole difference is control, response, and point of contact...the computer gets confused when you floor the throttle because you change from one driving style to another...whereas in a 6mt, there is no computer there to get confused, so the response is directly to your input. IT just all depends on the way you handle it...

 

The MM mode in Sedans and Coupes are different ... the Coupes do have less lag .. and its just a matter of adjusting... and knowing ur car and that comes with time.

 

The car will sound a lot louder if you are behind it, because the exhaust exit point is facing directly at you. Your car is probably louder than you think if you were to drive behind it in another car. That being said... the stock Z will be a bit louder than a G35 when you tach it up beyond 3K RPM's because the stock intake tube on the G35 has sound baffles that make it very quite up in that RPM range and also rob it of about 7 HP.

I put a Z-Tube in my car, and it sounds almost identical to my friends 350Z throughout the powerband. Get a Z-Tube, it's a cheap mod that also gives you about 1.5-2 MPG better economy... and that's something anyone can enjoy with the gas prices the way they are today.

 

Where did you read this pearl?

 

do a search, there are couple of threads on this topic.

 

so many WRONG THINGS were said: I ll try to rebut, 1 A 6MT is consitantly faster than an auto..(you can miss evey shift and still grind your way past an auto...been ther done that)...Car and Driver drivers are not the best drag racers (i.e. the many 6mt owners will get better times than what they(C&D) post....we have more experience with our cars than any one of their drivers have with our cars. ahhh i'm done

 

da45king, the difference between the performance of an auto an MT is not much ... it comes down to the driver..... if u tell me that u can make mistakes while shifting and still take an auto? .. then thats just BS!

 

Because they have the same exaust and engine as us

Or because your driving behind the guy and he's ahead of you.

Or he had something under his hood, which is probably true if he was AT bashing.

 

the fact that he's driving ahead of me is probably the case, and in that case i guess i don't know my car well enough yet. But if this guy had something under his hood, then that's just sad since i was tailing him after a late start when he should have smoke me.

 

Sorry, but 'a couple of threads' doesn't do it for me.

With the times and performance of the cars so nearly equal, I find it hard to believe that a 5AT coupe's manual-mode is much different (if at all) from that in the sedan.

The numbers don't bear it out.

Sounds like more 'I read it in the forum so it must be true' rhetoric.

Until a 5AT coupe posts SIGNIFICANTLY better times than its sedan counterpart, I'll chalk up any differences to overcoming the coupe's higher weight. It certainly isn't making it notably faster at the track.

I'm referring specifically to 05 5ATs, not earlier model years when the tranny would automatically upshift for you. The 05s do not.

What differences are you speaking of, specifically?

 

Is this thread referring to 02-04's or 05's b/c for an 05 how can you be baffled that a +18 hp (298) (albeit less torque) manual will outperform an auto (280)with torque converter?