Best shifter/ clutch feel ever?

[cleanspeed1]

My KW W900 with a 15 speed after the clutch was done. The guy that put the trans back in ( different than from the guy who put the clutch in ) did such a good job putting the shifter back in, that it was "snick-snick-snick" going thru the gears. Very precise, no slop, you could feel every gear pop in with no grinding, no fighting. It was better than any car transmission.

[cfg83]

aporigine -

Originally Posted by aporigine

cfq83 -

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Re tangent: science fiction (the real, hard stuff, nothing with Chicks with Swords) is one of my favorite things. The Goldilocks Zone is an old friend. 'course, wrapping my old dog head around the new trick of calling Mama Earth a Baby Bear ... ow ow ow. I Blame Society.

cheers apo

You're telling me. Last night I went to get some ice cream out of the fridge, when what do you know, SOCIETY had finished off the last serving. No class at all.

I could easily imagine Mama Bear replacing Baby Bear as the "middle way" between two extremes because Papa Bear would be the largest and Baby Bear would be the smallest :



The subtle(?) distinction in all of this is that Goldilocks was the same size as Baby Bear and Baby Bear had "mild in-between" food.

CarloSW2

[drv2die]

best shifting had to be the audi s4 silky smooth, worst thats a tie between my inlaws hotrod translates woreout mustang, and my brothers 93 scoop he had in high school on of the syncros was always acting up. oh and the 66 chevy p/up straght 6 three on the tree. if you didnt shift it right the linkage would pop apart then you had to get out open the hood and reconnect it sitting in the middle of the road.

[phunky.buddha]

S2000.

[Exalta-STA]

Worst clutch hardness ever...Nissan Patrol, the same one the UN uses. My left calf grew rips by using it. You have to stomp down on it to push the lever down and hold it down.

[Phantom]

The best one I have driven would be a '01 VW Jetta TDI it was also is the only one I have driven that you can teach someone to drive a manual and not have it stall.

The worst I have driven was a 95ish Corolla.

[Arragonis]

Worst would be the 1.4 TDi Fabia I tested. I stalled it. Never stalled a TDI before.

[user removed]

The 83 280Z 5 speed in my 76 280Z with the original 3.54 rear end. .75 overdrive gave it a 2.65 final drive which worked out to 3000 RPM at 85 MPH. It would have been neat to see what that car could have done if configured for hypermiling, since you could add a resistor in line to the water temp circuit then tighten up the spring in the flap air flow meter and have dash adjustable lean burn for cruising.

The old tech EFI on that 76 Z was very basic but the car had no catalyst, EGR, or air injection from the factory and that configuration was legal in 49 states in 1976, because the exhaust was clean enough to no require any after treatment.

Transmission had internal linkage and when it had fresh bearings and good synchros it was one sweet setup that could handle the available engine power. Nissan did upgrade the gearbox for turbos to a T5 BW tranny, but the stock 5 speed was a beautiful lightweight transmission.

regards
Mech

[eleanor123]

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