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Originally Posted by paulca
I think it's a matter of "Hey look mom, I'm cool."
If I put really good ear protection on you so you couldn't hear the engine, I bet I could convince you we were driving an auto without either heel/toe or DD shifts, well at least you wouldn't be able to tell when we changed gear. I'd even go as far as saying I could probably get up through the box 1st to 6th via every gear and back down again without you noticing a gear change and in under 10 seconds.
Not saying that's always the case, sometimes I'm too lazy to be smooth.
To you US guys a manual is a special thing, so you go on the interweb and you research and research and come back with all these fancy and all but superfluous techniques so you can brag about them to your mates and say you "can drive stick the hard way". Over here people will just look at you and say, "You can drive a car? So what, my 16 yo. daughter can drive a car!" and if you say, "But I can double de-clutch!", they will say, "Do what?", you explain, they will say, "Why on earth would you do that?"
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I double clutch and rev match and heel toe, not because I think it makes me cool, or because it's "the hard way" but because of its benefits to the longevity of the transmission and driveline in general, driveline shock ? What driveline shock there is none when you do this properly,
Annnnnd it's just more fun. I buy standard cars for the sake of doing something, the more complicated i make it for myself the more fun it is, it's easy once you learn it, it's better for the car, has nothing to do with bragging rights or being cooler than the next guy that doesn't do it,
Taught 2 of my friends how to do it, and they love it, it's just fun, and it just feels better than cruising at 100 and dropping to 5th while letting the syncros work things out for you <- it feels like shit IMO