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Originally Posted by Seiryuu
OP, I feel you for the most of what you're saying. The first month or two, I also had a rough time shifting smoothly and would often stall to my own surprise, leading to an overall initial dissatisfaction with driving this car. This is coming from almost 10 years of driving different manual cars beforehand. You will get used to it in due time though. Hell, I'm still not perfect driving mine and it's been over a year but it's 90% smooth. For a sports car, I'm really not sure how the engineers signed off on this when all Subaru ever emphasize for this car was the FEEL/CONNECTION of driving it.
There are three ways to improve clutch feel that will help improve driving smoothness:
- Clutch slave replacement as mentioned above
- Removing the assist spring above the clutch pedal
- Replacing the assist spring with a less springy one.
<--- this video gives a good explanation and idea
For heel-toe downshift, no thanks to the DBW and sorta odd height difference between the pedals, I've learned that you really have to STAB the throttle in (precision and finesse be damned) to have a better chance of getting a proper revmatch. Intuitively, It feels like too much (because it IS if the throttle was cabled) but more often than not, it lands the rev perfectly in the lower gear. Works best above 3K RPM.
It's too bad this car isn't like the Miata, where you can hop in and your body muscles just "gets it" with the controls within the first drive. But like I said, you'll enjoy it more in due time. |
Thanks a ton for this! I have heard about taking the spring out, but have heard many say it adds a 5% or 10% dead zone in the first part of the clutch where it kinda just wobbles and wiggles at the very top when foot is not on the clutch when driving. I have also heard that it did help with the feel though...
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Originally Posted by ermax
I’ve never noticed it cutting throttle when on the gas and brake. When autoxing I do a lot of LFB. I use the long press on the TC button. The only time I suck at heal-toe is after an ECU reset. The throttle response seems to be all over the place for 100 miles or so.
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I have though of a few times, to either long hold the tc button, or pedal dance to be rid of all assists, but few acquaintances say that if anything at all bad happens while those assists are off they check the computer in the car after an accident (if totaled probably) and they end up giving you much less for the car for reckless or inducing bad driving behavior. I honestly do hope this isn't true, but then again, people talk.
Thanks for all for farthing this discussion. I recently found a DBW controller unit for the gt86 brz and frs which might help solve some problems.
