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Old 08-24-2014, 03:40 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by radroach View Post
WTF are you doing?? That doesn't seem like the proper way at all to use a gearbox.
No it's not, but it doesn't stop you experimenting once in a while. It's not really any harder on the gear box that shifting from 2nd to 6th at high rev. Any large rev change of the shafts requires hard work by the syncros, but that's the job they are designed for.
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