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Originally Posted by Tcoat
You are double clutching on up shifts?
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With the old transmission, I had to double clutch every single gear, up or down, and I'm pretty good at it too. With the broken trans if I was off by like 1% it would still grind for 4th, the others were slightly more forgiving.
With the new trans I'm trying to give it a chance to see if it behaves right on a single clutch because that's what synchros are supposed to let you do, but I might end up just always double clutching. I am double clutching on downshifts always, I do that even in perfectly working cars.
When I do double clutch with the new transmission, it obviously behaves perfect like you would expect. We're just talking about single clutch for the roughness. I guess there's no law that it has to be smooth for single clutching, I'm just shocked that it isn't given how many great transmissions there are out there that do not suffer from this problem, complicated though it may be.
If it isn't behaving when it warms up outside next year, I'm just going to go back to double clutching all the time. There's really nothing else for it at that point short of an engine swap.
Who knows... maybe I am just spoil't on BMW/honda/porsche transmissions, never had to replace one ever. My E39 at like 250k miles has finally started to get a kind of grumpy 2nd gear, but that's pretty normal for a manual of that mileage, and even then it's still working better than the BRZ.