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Originally Posted by lapsio
...but when you shift quickly it will always "kick" a bit and I believe synchros are not too happy. Also I'm having some problems with wheelhop occasionally when launching and everyone who feels wheelhop immediately screams that oh my gawd car is gonna fall apart. ...
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so the thing to understand here is the shock load you're putting on every bit of the mechanical bits.
when you pop the clutch like that, you jerk every bit of the driveline from the motor, the trans, the drive shaft, rear diff, half shafts, and rear wheel bearings. it's putting additional stress on every single part that rotates, which means that every single rotating part will need to be replaced much faster than before. 'lifetime' before, might mean only 50-100k km now.
i rev my car out for fun. every time it leaves the garage, it bumps the rev limiter.
since the first day i got the car, i hung a necklace and pendant from the mirror. don't feel right driving a car without something off the mirror--habit from the past. anyways, most times, the pendant doesn't bounce. doesn't move. and when it does, i feel bad.
daily driving the car, it gets better, more natural, more unconscious, to be paying attention to what that pendant is doing. if the pendant bounces, it means the driveline is being unnecessarily taxed...
find your rhythm with the car-- the car's providing feedback to what works and what doesn't. if you're snapping the car into the next gear, you're the one avoiding what the car is telling you.