Understood. Just asking - have you set in a '19 GT Mustang 6 speed at idle and just let out the clutch? I can tell you unless you're really trying - you can't stall it.Trying not to stall isn't the "practice" we are discussing. It is the engage & bite points of YOUR clutch and learning where those are...!
Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins. With the arm waggle for the win.
I guess you could look at double-clutching as rev-matching carried to an extreme. Everything gets rev matched, not just the engine, flywheel and pressure plate (the clutch disc, transmission input shaft and countershaft can't rev-match with the clutch pedal depressed). This may or may not involve greater throwout bearing wear - the total time of the two clutch pedal disengagements may not be all that much greater than the total time you hold the clutch disengaged for a simple rev-match. It probably does extend synchro life somewhat. I've never worn out a set of synchros, though I did manage to fracture the synchro hub of a light-duty Saginaw into three separate pieces when asking it to put up with the torque of a moderately healthy 350 SBC.
Will this cause issues? See my most recent post I made today, when I dump the clutch and floor it i get extremely hard shifts that slam the car and feel like it's about to snap something. It ends up with burning oil smells, smoke from the exhaust, and water or fluid leaking from the top of the tranny. Is the extremely hard shift just me not matching the floor it and dump it correctly or is the violent slam as clutch catches normal? Normal shifting I used to slowly release the clutch but it doesn't work anymore for whatever reason so I've been alternating pausing for a second with it down to drop rpms even though I have rev hang tuned out they still hang a bit. Or releasing to about 1/4 into bite zone and holding it then slowly releasing from there. Both methods still end up with a jerk or jolt sometimes. First has a tendency to let me slip it and rev up and move slowly before it'll just clunk and catch even without letting it out fully.
Sounds like you may have already burnt your clutch. The smell is most likely the clutch slipping. Not sure about the smoke (maybe from clutch, not exhaust) or fluid leaking. When you are shifting at 7K, I certainly wouldn’t call it smooth, but it shouldn’t feel like you’re trying to break something either. I personally think the manual in the 2018+ Mustang is one of the easiest manuals I’ve ever driven. With the exception of the bite point of the clutch being a little numb to figure out, the gears go in nice and crisp through the gates. I’ve personally never experienced the high rpm lockouts that some people experience. I have no complaints with the Getrag, and that’s coming from the Tremec in my GTO.
Any suggestions on my shifting then atleast for around town? Release it slowly the entire time or do what I've been messing with, release a bit until I think I'm roughly at bitezone then hold it for a second and let it out slower from there or should I not hold it and just be slow the entire time? Sometimes no matter what I do it won't be smooth and it'll be clunky and clangy even just clutch in fully and shifting to 2nd it's clunks and clangs before I even release the clutch.
