does anyone power shift on their maximas?
or how does power shifting actually work?
i would really like to try it one day but i have no idea on how to do it.

 

power shifting will probably lead to gernading a tranny.

from what i remeber you shift while keeping your car @ WOT.

pedal to the metal press clutch just enough to shift, shift, release the clutch. never releasing the gas.

 

power shift is what jdmmax said above. You don't need to be WOT though, just keep your foot on the gas, quickly kick the clutch and shift gears quickly and that's powershifting.

 

hahahhahhaah ok so i remembered wrong i remember my friends always did that to his integra. i would hear his gears grind. what an idiot.

 

power shifting actually works great when downshifting . . . going in fourth gear on the highway and downshifting to 3rd without letting off the gas pedal . . . if you do it right, nothing will happen but you'll need lots of practice . . . it's the fastest way to downshift though . . .

 

I remember when I would race in my accord, I would powershift all the time, and I would pull hard on almost every car i raced, it was like i was seamlessly flying straight ahead. It felt great, you should try it sometime, but just practice regular shifting, then speed it up, and you will get the hang of it. I used to race that car atleast every weekend for about a year until I sold it, and never had a problem.

 

If I'm not mistaken you mess up you synchros by shifting to fast, it's not the metter of keeping your foot on the gas. In regular driving you are supposed to shift_granny style. Powershifting is the worse for your clutch because you slip it alot everytime you punch it in, and everytime you let it back.

If your tranny's synchros are ****ed up then you would hear a grind and a slight kick back at the shiftnob when you put it from first to second really fast.

 

That can't be good for your Clutch or gears?

 

I don't see the point. Subjecting the transmission and clutch to extra wear and tear just to gain .05 seconds on a shift. Esp on these transmissions...

You can shift and downshift quick enough using normal methods in my opinion. Powershifting is something you do on that 15-year-old car you got when you were 16 and didn't really care about it.

 

yes but how many people here actually care that much about their car. . .they race it on the streets, they take it to the track and do other stupid stunts... i've never been to the track with my max and i take care of it . . .

someone asks what powershifting is and we're basically answering his question....we do not recommend it but it does get done by a lot of drivers out there....

 

I just want the populous to be aware of the risk -> reward ratio here. There's plenty of careless ways to drive your car that don't screw up the drivetrain as much

 

i thought powershifting was in an automatic, 1-2-3-drive. which anyway you look at it is bad. if you want more power get a y-pipe instead of replacing a tranny. or get a corvette.

 

all that is is manually shifting the auto, i dont think their is any specific name for it, power shifting has to do with manual trans'

 

oh and u want to hear some stupid shi*, ever sence the movie "the slow and the stupid" came out, where vin says "granny shifting not DOUBLE CLUTCHING........................" you got all these ricers saying they know how to double clutch, and they say i dono how to do it, and everytime i heard that i just laught my a$$ off, double clutching is used in like semi trucks, where u have to push the clutch to pull it out of the gear, realease and the push it again to put it in the next gear, fuccing morons.

 

You do double clutch with cars! It is also called "Rev matching"

 

no double clutching is something totaly different then rev matching, just like maxima98vspec said. Rev matching is when you wonna down shift, you punch the clutch in drop it in the gear you wonna downshift in rev it up to the rpms you expect to drop in and drop the clutch. It's very very useful on the ricers that like to fly by you.

 

It's highly recommended that you AVOID powershifting/speedshifting.

Stock Nissan transmissions of the Gen IV era and previous are fragile at best. Driving relatively normal on a Gen III (89 SE SOHC V6 5spd) and a Gen IV (95 SE DOHC V6 5spd) with some hard acceleration at times, granny shifting, I had to replace many components in both car's transmissions.

A basic rebuild/new transmission job. Nissans make wonderful engines, but tranny's that don't handle the power and torque.

Please do not try to PS/SS, unless you have a racing trans with beefier synchros. You will lose out on the long run ($1900-$2500)

 

yeah it's on any tranny, if you are going to shift like crazy not sooner or later your synchros will go to hell along with your clutch, and you won't be able to powershift nomore because you will sound like an idiot when your gears will grind thru shifts

 

i went with my dad to test drive this G35 coupe, and the guy kept saying how double clutching will double the life of you clutch, and he was getting my dad to try it, and it feels really smooth when you do it right, cause there is no loss in rmp's. but i've never had a manual to try it on yet, so as soon as i do, i'll give it a try.

 

as ive been told, double clutching is when you are driving, then push in teh clutch, raise the reves then let the clutch back in, and that is completely useless, but thats just what i was told double clutching is, could someone clarify this?

 

Ok, lets get this clear on double clutching...I had to do this on my Jetta cuz my syncro was completely shot so I know what I'm talking about. Double clutching is used as a bypass for sycros so it useless for syncronized cars, and thats why big rigs have to do it...no syncros. Heres double clutching:
Push in clutch and pull out of gear
Put shifter in neutral and release clutch
Push in clutch and shift to next gear (or rev-match and downshift)

TRUST me...I needed to do this because on my jetta, EVERY shift from 1-2 grinded for like 2 seconds because the syncro was shot. If i double-clutched 1-2 there was no grinding at all....after you do it for like a week, I can do it crazy fast, almost faster than some of my friends can pound gears

 

Good for upshifting, especially for a bypass one gear (1-3, 3-5, etc.)
For downshifting (indispensable if you bypass the gear: 4-2, 5-3, etc.):
Push in clutch and pull out of gear
Put shifter in neutral and release clutch
Rev engine to expected rpm
Push in clutch and shift.

 

crap man yeah,
Double clutching (like many of us already said)
Used by truckers, but if you got a shot synchro on the car you don't wonna double clutch because it will mess up your clutch (big rigs got a clutch a size of our tranny), just push in the clutch, push it in nuetral let it sit for like 0.5 sec and then put it in second.

Rev matching is when you wonna go in a lower gear to get more speed you punch in the clutch rev up the car, drop it in the lower gear and drop the clutch.

Power shifting (bad for the clutch and the synchros due to agressive shifting and major slipage on the clutch) when upshifting keep your left foot on the gas at all times, and just use the clutch to shift.

 

Double-clutching on upshifts could potentially be "good" for the transmission...but giving extra gas when you're engaging the clutch definitely won't be better for the clutch when compared to normal shifting.

 

double clutching is good for you tranny, but bad for your clutch. Just shift slower and it will be better for your tranny