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Originally Posted by jakobnev
How is engine braking supposedly stressing all those bits?
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I think he means that trying to slow a super car by down shifting can ruin the engine. This is true, you can over rev any engine by aggressively down shifting. When I engine brake I aggressively regular brake before I down shift.
He may also not live in a hilly area. Long steep hills with stops at the end that would smoke even my brakes. I had to teach my brother how to engine brake on his first automatic because he was smoking his brakes until the point of fad on long downhills.
Also take what kach22i says with a grain of salt. He told me to oil my distributor but my engine had not had one for 6 model years before mine.