Vlad Soare
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That's exactly what I do in a manual car without the auto rev match. But it does wear out the clutch more than it would if the revs were matched.On my little test circuit I come into a 200 deg climbing banked corner at 80mph in 4th, brake to 45mph and shift to 3rd. At around 55mph I push in the clutch, select 3rd and gently feed the clutch back in as I'm also tapering off the brakes while entering the first 1/4 of the turn. By 1/3 into the turn I'm back on the gas. Since I'm not heal-toeing yes I am smoothly dragging the engine up to the revs needed to match road speed. But since I'm also still braking the gap is narrowing by the moment.
Now, if you don't have ARM, then you have no choice but to accept the increased clutch wear as a fact of life. Nothing wrong with that. But if you do have ARM, which works perfectly each and every time and reduces the friction to a bare minimum, then why not take advantage of it?
I get Norm's point, that the ARM is useless if you can do its job yourself. But so far I haven't been able to figure out how I could do its job myself (not without heel & toe, that is). Sure, I could live without it if I had to, but the point isn't whether one can find an acceptable workaround (like slipping the clutch more), but whether one can replicate it exactly, to the point that it becomes really useless.
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