[s-cars] RE: a racing question

[Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)]

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Rich wondered:


From: "Richard Tanimura" <richard at tanimuras.com>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:08:36 +0200
Subject: [s-cars] a racing question??

It is impossible for me to heel-toe my Audi. But I have read in Dennis Jenks
book about shifting w/o using the clutch. I can do this pretty handily using
the gas to get the rpm right and then popping the car into gear. This means
I can leftfoot brake and gear down when I get this practiced.

But here is the question. What kind of violence am I subjecting my gearbox
to? BTDT preferred. Clever conjecture accepted.

Rich






R-

Ohhhhhhhhno!  Have we opened the LFB / HT pandoras box yet again??? 8-)  You
either have size 17 shoes, or size 4.5...   my 10s HT just fine.

I've been doing the match-revs shifting / LFB thang for years, on all my
cars.  Never had a gearbox problem (well, except now with galled 1st!).  I
imagine repeated "whoopses" whereby you don't sveltely match the revs may
not be such a good thing, but otherwise I would think you're OK if you do it
'right'.

Of course, I'm no expert...

-P in CT