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Originally Posted by churchx
As gg1978 wrote, if it hasn't revved past redline, no issue, it's not what's called "money shift"  (when you already had revved out till redline previous gear and instead of upshift misshift down). If one rev-matches, there is not even extra load/wear on clutch & synchros. Of course, if you had not just cruised normally in top gear, but had driven by speeding a lot, and with high enough rpms in previous gear, so that 2 or 3 gears lower downshift would make it overrev too high, then issues may pop up, including drastic ones like broken engine. But that's not your case, and at most you had slight one-time extra wear on synchros, reduced though by partial revmatch (for 5th), so just forget about/ignore, nothing to be paranoid of. |
Ok that’s what I figured. Thanks for clarifying. The reason I was worried was because I did not rev Match for 3rd but for 5th. If I intentionally go from 6 to 3rd I would give a much bigger rev match. So like u said I partially rev matched. The 3rd gear in a 13’ I think goes to 82 mph or something like that and I’m pretty sure I was going slower than that so I couldn’t have hit redline even if I let out the clutch completely. Like u said I likely wear the synchro or clutch slightly, but that’s like having to brake hard and putting a bit extra wear on pad/ rotors. My concern was for the engine and the force put on it from rapid climb in revs from the momentum of the car as it felt quite violent. But the concensus seems to be that if I didn’t hit the redline it’s ok. I feel better now.
This is the first time I’ve done this in 15 years of driving manual. Felt super dumb when I did it