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Old 08-24-2014, 03:13 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by paulca View Post
If you try driving along at 30mph, put the clutch down and hold the shifter lightly against 1st and listen, you will hear and asscending whine as the gearbox spins up to effectively 7k rpm. It's a pretty cool sound, but I wouldn't recommend doing it all that often. Though if your brakes ever fail on you, you can always use 1st gear and the clutch for brakes.
WTF are you doing?? That doesn't seem like the proper way at all to use a gearbox.
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