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Old 01-05-2010, 03:37 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cfg83 View Post
Christ -



Yeah, I traumatized a cute girl trying to teach her how to drive stick in my CRX. She was fine in the parking lot, but kept stalling it on real streets. She later bought a Mazda MX3 with an automatic, . At least I influenced her to get an MX3, !

I realized after the fact that *if* I had told her to set the tach at X RPM before letting up on the clutch (egg-zactly like you have described) she probably would have "got it".

CarloSW2
Carlos -

Go through all that, then try to teach someone new to manual transmissions with an unsprung twin-plate clutch that has half a ton of clamp force.

That's what I stuck my wife with the first time she drove stick with me.
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