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Originally Posted by CSG Mike
You mean missing the gear and going into neutral? Because a money shift would have blown the engine.
Isn't a sudden change in load what happens every time you shift hard, whether it's a down or up shift?
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I missed a shift at the drag strip in my old neon. I went from 7500 rpm in 3rd to 2nd, and side stepped the clutch. Other than the power steering belt slipping off and the engine stalling nothing wrong came of it. I restarted, picked up my belt, nursed it back to the pits. Put the belt back on and run another dozen or so passes that day. I put another ~150,000 km's on that engine afterward, and a couple hundred drag passes, and I never once opened the engine. If a shit box neon can do it once, I'm sure this engine can do it once.