Manuals Are Losers

[Dfeeds]

Pretty much same experiences lol. We got electric forklifts a few years ago switching from propane and it was a learning curve for sure. One of them has the auto parking brake and nobody likes it at all. I always like going back to a propane or diesel forklift, just easier to be smoother with. Hope the 10k of steel didn't hurt anyone or anything.

I caught it in time haha. One of those moments where 3 seconds felt like ten minutes. So are you using the electric standing (reach) forklifts or is it still the sitting ones?

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[Genxer]

Long term, I might need a new clutch. Long term with an auto, you might need a new transmission. But that wouldn't necessarily sway my decision. If I was commuting in traffic or bracket racing, I'd rock an auto.

 

[TeeLew]

My first car (parents hand me down) was a rear wheel drive automatic, I've been left foot braking since I was 16. I got pretty adept at it when I was stock car racing. I raced a '94 Escort GT in a 4-4-Fun class, the car was a manual but I could run the 3/8 mile paved oval in second gear (just bouncing off the rev limiter at the end of the straights). I found that left foot braking allowed me to go deeper in the corners and really dance on the edge of grip. Great times!

Every vehicle I own now has three pedals so I haven't tried left foot braking in years.

Left foot braking & mixing pedals on a FWD car has the opposite effect as with a rear drive car. The former reduces front brake bias. The latter increases it.

Some very, very good racing drivers brake with their right foot. Particularly in a GT-type car, it's of little advantage and has genuine drawbacks if not done correctly. Generally speaking, the best left-foot brakers are the ones who started in karts at 5 years old.

 

[Sivi70980]

I caught it in time haha. One of those moments where 3 seconds felt like ten minutes. So are you using the electric standing (reach) forklifts or is it still the sitting ones?

Sitting ones. We had a stand up one once but nobody felt comfortable using it. I liked it though. We also use army 10k’s with the extending boom and tilting cab and they’re fun, more so when better than 75% of the controls work but that’s a rarity. We have a few propane and one diesel. The diesel is fun because the direction of travel is changed via gas pedal. It has a slight swivel switch depending on if you press on the right or left side of it. It’s great for forklift burnouts…so I hear.

 

[shogun32]

Some very, very good racing drivers brake with their right foot.

typo?

 

[TXGTPig]

My first car (parents hand me down) was a rear wheel drive automatic, I've been left foot braking since I was 16. I got pretty adept at it when I was stock car racing. I raced a '94 Escort GT in a 4-4-Fun class, the car was a manual but I could run the 3/8 mile paved oval in second gear (just bouncing off the rev limiter at the end of the straights). I found that left foot braking allowed me to go deeper in the corners and really dance on the edge of grip. Great times!

Every vehicle I own now has three pedals so I haven't tried left foot braking in years.

Buddy of mine in High School had a '96 Black Escort GT. Holy hell that thing was amazingly fun!!!! Honestly I'll look for them from time to time, but they are far an few between and most are beat to shit, rightfully so.

 

[TeeLew]

typo?

No, I think a lot of times it's assumed that all race drivers brake with their left, but it varies.

 

[KJZ28]

Once you get a nice exhaust, the best thing about the manual is the ability to play with the note in a very fine tuned way that you can't achieve with the auto.

This!!! It has been 6 years since I had a manual and I am loving it.

 

[dmcg940]

You can buy a Mustang GT with an automatic? Why? I don't care if the AT is faster. I won't ever put a watch on mine, and the Coyote is quite fast enough pulling the 6MT. Losing the direct MT connection is, for me, losing half the fun of the car. I don't have to slog through traffic anymore, so I can easily justify the MT. So I did, when I ordered my '21. My safe bet is there won't be an MT on the options list when I go to order another Mustang in another five years. If there's a real Mustang to order at that time.

 

[MuahMan]

I'll never miss that community or the 1,600 "Does a catch can add horsepower?" threads.

I'm telling ya. I got 35 WHP and 42 Lbs when I put the JLT catch on there. My butt-dyno tells me so.

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