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jakaracman · 08-28-2003, 03:16 AM

Dont scare the man about clutch. My car has 60.000 km's, is driven exclusively in town, all stop and go, I always let it "hang" on the clutch on the hills, and at the last inspection the clutch was good for at least another 30.000 km's. What kills the clutch is to high revs when you're in the friction zone (ie 5000 rpm at 10 mph ...)

SamuraiGti · 01-05-2004, 10:43 PM

why stop at the STOP sign? That's a nice question...

If you have a good visibility of the road, and you see that nobody's coming from both sides of the road why stop? Alright, you have to do it by the book. if you have zero visibility, you really have to stop...heh, or if the cops are nearby.
I almost never stop at Stop's.

Btw, when I really stop, of course 1st gear, when I don't stop, 2nd gear every time.

nchs09 · 01-06-2004, 04:32 PM

i have a protege too...

stop in every stop sign! ur gonna get caught by the cops silly
about crusing in the parking lot, accelerate and put it into neutral, and when u need to accelerate more, just stick it in 2nd and let go of the clutch slowly, dont push the cgas, u dont need to go that fast in a parkinglot.

thats all i can help u with

hope it helps

gottacatchup · 01-09-2004, 09:38 PM

i have an 03 protege5

first stop at the fricken stop sign or atleast slow to like 5 to engage 1st gear

in parking lots i always use 2nd

for the exhaust i say at that rpm it vibrates just right to hit something else and make the sound it definately shouldnt be an engine problem though

mhn3773 · 01-10-2004, 06:18 AM

brembo why give him guff for acctualy searching like u and other badger people about so often?

levensnevel · 01-10-2004, 06:35 AM

Another intrigueing question with manual gearboxes is:
At how many RPM do you change gears in day 2 day motoring

AlienDB7 · 01-10-2004, 09:47 AM

Nice car you got there WhiteP, hope you had fun driving it.

I agree with robruf, you should get some professional help learning how to drive manual properly. It's okay to let the clutch slip a bit to make the shifting more gentle, assuming you're not using more advanced techniques.

In my experience, it's always a good idea to slow to at least 5-10kph in a stop sign (assuming you can clearly see nobody is crossing the street!) even if you're extremely lazy. Whenever possible, do stop at stop signs, especially in vancouver! It's possible that the car you think that isn't there is blocked by the a-pillar. Yes, that had happened to be once or twice. Beside that, there're people who run stop signs at high speed and end up crashing into you. Unless you're drunk, doubt you want to be another statistic. Once a woman was talking on her cell phone and ran a stop sign at 60-70kph and almost hit me. If I didn't stop completely, I wouldn't be here talking to you. Quite often, visibility isn't as good as you think.

If the noise only happens at 2100rpm, maybe that's the resonance frequency of some loose part in it? Didn't you say you did an exhaust mod or was that something else? Probably something wasn't installed properly. I heard that kind of noise on cars with aftermarket exhausts often, could that be an extra feature.. like the valve on nissan cars' that opens at a certain rpm?

edit: didn't realize this thread is THAT old. Damn, who dug it up like 6 months after?

AlienDB7 · 01-10-2004, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by levensnevel

Another intrigueing question with manual gearboxes is:
At how many RPM do you change gears in day 2 day motoring

Don't forget you can still control gear changes in automatic (to a certain degree). If I'm not in a hurry, I always change at around 1800rpm to save gas... 3000rpm if I'm going uphill or in a hurry.

Now a more technical question, if you want fast[er] acceleration, should you change gear at torque peak or redline?

SFDMALEX · 01-10-2004, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by levensnevel

Another intrigueing question with manual gearboxes is:
At how many RPM do you change gears in day 2 day motoring

Red Line

gottacatchup · 01-12-2004, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by levensnevel

Another intrigueing question with manual gearboxes is:
At how many RPM do you change gears in day 2 day motoring

its different in every car i suppose i change at about 3000-3500 rpm

kian · 01-25-2004, 01:07 AM

hehe......never stop at stop signs if there are no signs of cops or traffic ....

as for the parking lot .....try to use more speed and more hand-brake .....that will help a lot ....

undien717 · 01-30-2004, 01:24 AM

Every car behaves differently in terms of which speed and rpm will cause it to bog. If you really can't wait at a stop sign and just want to roll it (which you really shouldn't do), just drop it to 2nd. If you feel it bogging, just go to first. Pay attention to how your car reacts in certain speeds so that you know what gear is best for which speeds. That way, you know exactly which gear to shift to when you're at a certain speed. When you're at a parking lot, you should be going around 5-10 mph, so what I do is stay on first and when my car goes to around 5-10 mph, I step on the clutch and just cruise.

WhiteP · 01-30-2004, 05:40 AM

WoW :shock: :shock: :shock:

My theard is still alive.. I believe it is one of the 1st 10 posts I have made in JW... but still.. Thank you for everyone's advices... btw

ops: I think I didn't mention clearly, I do stop at stop signs... but not always complete stop if I have the visibility to see that there's nothing coming along..

Anile8er · 01-30-2004, 11:42 AM

what i was told (from a guy that drives a hen 650r viper and know soooo much shit) after u completle stop at the ligth to put it netrual cause it messes somthing in the cluch if u just hodl it there

firdausasri · 02-23-2004, 05:50 PM

This is what I do. On third gear, depress the clutch fully while right feet on the accelerator, downshift to 2nd, release clutch then accelerator, finally depress on the clutch and brakes to a complete stop. Sounds like riceboy huh?