For the MT owners: how do you downshift?

[Charles147]

Double clutching, heel-toe-ing on every friggin turn??

IKR! Load of BS.

I know many folks got cameras. Time to put up and show your racecar driving skills on the street on the NET.

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[domingos35]

explain rev matching please

 

[Khyber]

booooooring

might be boring but it's sensible

 

[P4RKER]

might be boring but it's sensible

Double clutch and rev match all your downshifts for a month and you won't ever even think about it again. I haven't had a downshift without rev matching in almost 4 years and haven't even thought about when I do it in almost as long. It's as second nature as knowing where each gear is without looking.

 

[Schu]

For the MT owners: how do you downshift?

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[LICobra]

Ever since I went to the Bob Bondurant driving school back in the mid 90's I've been heel and toe and rev matching to keep in practice. Now it's just second nature to do it during the majority of my driving...I don't have to drive that way, I just prefer too whether it's in my Honda Civic or my Mustang.

 

[cbrookre]

The car bucks?

It is a Mustang, after all. They do buck. It is a good way to get out their aggression.

 

[BBB]

I'm still trying to figure out how to rev match correctly . It's pretty frustrating

 

[Supa LA]

True that, but OP seemed to have issues with simple, every day driving.
Once you get the basics down, then you can get on to the advanced stuff they teach you at racing school.

I don't have any issues doing it. It was the people I let drive my car that didn't and it just made me cringe cause the car acted as if it didn't like it. It could've been their clutch release tho. Driving these cars for the first time it's a little different than most manuals, I assume.

Double clutch and rev match all your downshifts for a month and you won't ever even think about it again. I haven't had a downshift without rev matching in almost 4 years and haven't even thought about when I do it in almost as long. It's as second nature as knowing where each gear is without looking.

This is pretty much my mentality. It's second nature now.

Very Quickly...

Well, yea!

 

[Khyber]

Double clutch and rev match all your downshifts for a month and you won't ever even think about it again. I haven't had a downshift without rev matching in almost 4 years and haven't even thought about when I do it in almost as long. It's as second nature as knowing where each gear is without looking.

i'll never ever double clutch in 2015 as I've said...also i've said 3 times already i blip but i do not if i'm under 2k rpm as it really make no difference

 

[Wblv17]

with my left foot and right hand

 

[MagneticA]

There are two ways of "rev-matching." The first is to downshift before the engine is ready, in which case you would "blip" the throttle to match. The second would be to downshift when the engine is at a low rpm. I personally use the second method more frequently than the first. Another way people usually do it is by easing the clutch out. Lots of hate mail around here for that method.

 

[GT Pony]

^^^ Yeah, no real reason the rev-match downshifts unless racing and going through the gears all the time around the course. I've rode along with some people driving on the streets that will come up on a stop sign and will shift from 5th to 4th, 4th, to 3rd, 3rd to 2nd and 2nd to 1st. I'm thinking WTF dude ... just coast down in 5th gear until you're down to about 1200 RPM and pop it into neutral and brake the last 50 feet. Much easier on everything.

 

[P4RKER]

^^^ Yeah, no real reason the rev-match downshifts unless racing and going through the gears all the time around the course. I've rode along with some people driving on the streets that will come up on a stop sign and will shift from 5th to 4th, 4th, to 3rd, 3rd to 2nd and 2nd to 1st. I'm thinking WTF dude ... just coast down in 5th gear until you're down to about 1200 RPM and pop it into neutral and brake the last 50 feet. Much easier on everything.

I am all for rev matching and downshift engine braking but going through all the gears is over doing it. Lol pick one gear and drop down to engine brake from there (4th or 5th usually) then brake after 1500 or so. If you use the clutch that much you aren't even preventing excessive wear lol

 

[Old 5 Oh]

I was taught to double-clutch and heel/toe when I was 14, and never have stopped. Doesn't matter if it's a Honda, a Mustang or a Ford F-150, that's how I drive it. It's part of the fun for me. It makes everything smoother. I may have paid for an extra clutch or two along the way, but it hasn't been a big deal. I wouldn't do it any differently.

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