Well, obviously that guy is clueless. He forgot to mash the clutch.It doesn't require rotating anything. "Heel & toe" is a misnomer, it's actually "Big toe & right side of foot", no contortions are necessary.
Well, obviously that's not true.
Didn't take it as an intentional slight and I certainly wasn't "bent out of shape" over it. Just that "easy-peasy" isn't so easy-peasy when you've got a joint that says "nope, we're not doing that".
I looked in the Ford service manual and found no sensors in the shifter and none other than the OSS in the xmsn. *But* the electrical portion shows a connector C1854 that goes to a"Selected Gear Sensor" on the xmsn or shifter.
It's very easy to adjust this. There's a thread on here about installing nylon washers behind the gas pedal assembly to raise it, relative to the brake pedal. The Brembo brakes are VERY hard with little travel on the stock pads, and I found that putting the washers in (takes all of two minutes under the dashboard) and installing different pads made the car perfect for heel/toe braking. I went from the stock pads to Power Stop Z23s, and while they don't have as much initial bite as the stock PP pads, I think they're every bit as good overall.
Well, logic tells me that if it uses the two signals from the speed sensor (ie, drive shaft RPM) and Engine RPM, then the computer immediately calculates the gear you are in. When you press the clutch in, the clutch sensor tells the computer it's out of gear, thus activating the rpm control. What baffles me, is how it knows which gear you are switching into while the clutch is pressed in. Because with the clutch pressed in, you can change gears, and the engine RPM immediately changes to match. So, it must somehow know which gear you are shifting to at all times. If there's no sensor on the shifter, then maybe the speed sensor in the transmission somehow also doubles as a gear sensor? Outside of that, I have no idea.
The "Selected Gear Sensor" appears to mounted to the xmsn or the shifter. It has a 6 pin connector, three or four of the pins appear to let the PCM know what gear we selected. I plan to change my oil today or tomorrow and will try to locate the part and hope to get a photo of it.
Off the top of my head, I'm thinking there would be some sort of position sensing that works off the shifter rail inside the transmission case/tailhousing. Detecting where the shifter rail moved to (in/out/rotational) would define the gear you're intending to use next.
Sure, it's totally easy to downshift like this... when you don't actually drive on a trackIt doesn't require rotating anything. "Heel & toe" is a misnomer, it's actually "Big toe & right side of foot", no contortions are necessary.
Well, obviously that's not true.
I, for the life me, appear to be unable to do this.
That's completely retarded. There's someone that needs their vehicle set-up better.
