View Poll Results: Do you slow down with your clutch or brake
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02-19-2007, 01:10 PM #1
do you slow down with your clutch or brakes
Well lets hear it.
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02-19-2007, 01:14 PM #2
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Arctic White Hardtop- '98 Formula M6
start with clutch, end with brakes.
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02-19-2007, 01:16 PM #3
well yea i guess ending with the brakes is a givin lol
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02-19-2007, 01:29 PM #4
This may sound like a dumb question, but how does one slow down using their clutch? I'm assuming that you mean downshifting to progressively lower gears, but I'm not 100% clear.
If my assumption is correct, then I always slow using the brakes and don't punch in the clutch until the moment engine starts to be overloaded from whatever gear I'm in.
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02-19-2007, 01:31 PM #5
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02-19-2007, 01:36 PM #6
its pointless to use your transmission, down shifting does so much harm to your synchros, id be more than happy to take 5 mins and replace my pads then to pull my transmission out and rebuild it
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02-19-2007, 01:36 PM #7
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02-19-2007, 01:37 PM #8
Brakes, they are cheaper and easier to place than my clutch...
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02-19-2007, 01:38 PM #9
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02-19-2007, 01:39 PM #10
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02-19-2007, 01:41 PM #11
cause downshifting actually shortens your over all breaking distance/time. downshifting (using the clutch) helps to use the engine as an additional 'brake' due to deceleration (result of engine, gear ratios/rear end, etc).
plus others out there downshift to hear the sound of their car. not sure why that is though
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02-19-2007, 01:43 PM #12
well yea the backpressure sounds nice when you're lettin her out into second then first coming to a red, but i only do that once in a while or when i see another nice car, friends, or chick
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02-19-2007, 01:58 PM #13
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REV MATCH!!!!! then down shift
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02-19-2007, 02:10 PM #14
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Silver- 1998 Camaro Z28 A4
Downshifting makes sense on long downhill passages, use the engine to keep the car from accelerating.
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02-19-2007, 02:16 PM #15
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02-19-2007, 03:10 PM #16
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pewter- 2001 z28 lingenfelter 383
brakes are soo much cheaper and easier to replace......if im racing i just dont pull back out of gear to slow down.....say im in 4th at 5k rpms.......i just dont take it out of gear till im back down to 70 or so
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02-19-2007, 03:36 PM #17
if you rev match and use your engine to brake, you dont wear anything.
I brake however I feel like braking at the time.
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02-19-2007, 03:47 PM #18
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I use both. I downshift when I am slowing quickly.
I tend to drive fast and liek the feeling that I am slowing quicker with the downshift and brakes. Plus, I do not have any kind of traction control or Anti-Skid.
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02-19-2007, 07:02 PM #19
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Black- 2000 Camaro Z28
When my dad taught me to drive a manual he told me to use the transmision whenever possible to slow down. He may be wrong, but I have never seen him be so in the past so...
I love the brakes on these cars, you can slow down so fast in these cars.
Reminds me of a story. One time my dad borrowed my car to run to town after parts. After he gets back me goes man that 6 speed is kinda tricky downshiftin huh? and I say well it is till you get used to it why? he says lets just say you ought to stay out of superior for a while. The next weekend we are drivin into town and there is a set of dual 6 foot black marks where the speed limit changes from 55 to 20. My dad just looks at me and goes i missed 4th from 6th and hit 2nd.
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02-19-2007, 07:14 PM #20
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i rev match rpms on downshift and then use my brake when i have to... doesn't do shit to the clutch other than normal wear.. uses less breakss but guzzles some gas...
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