I saw the F&F movie and I didn't get what Vin Diesel was talking about when he said this.

 

goto www.thefastandthefurious.com and goto fast talk.

They have many of the terms used in racing.

 

its when your grandma drives your 5 speed car

 

 

Actually then, that would be a good thing. You have to see my 86 year old gannie drive a 5 speed... It's scary. She's got skills. she's got game

 

What???? I sincerely hope that you are not serious in your response...

Granny Shifting is when you do not redline your shifts, and you clutch all the way when shifting gears...It can also mean that you leave your foot on the clutch too long, meaing you have more lag in between gears.

 

haha ur granny must be cool

 

Get this guys, One time I saw this old lady driving a modded up miata, and she was power shifting on the highway. This is no lie.

 

haha thats scary man... dayyyamn...

 

me too

 

My friend Mike's Grandma started buying Corvettes in the 70's and traded up to a new one every year. She passed last year though, had just traded a Red '97 6-speed coupe for a Silver, Auto Convertible.

Whitemax, so... you like UPS or what?

 

She got the need for speed

 

Your sig scares me.

 

This is what happens when you try to put too much nitrous into your honda

 

I find it kind of weird that your screen name is DOM and you are asking about what Vin Diesel said..


I NEVER KNOCKED ON NOBODY!!!!!!

 

Its "nark" From the word narkardicts (did I spell that right?) When people use to turn in druggies... Anyway Granny Shifting is whne you suck at shifting, easiest way to put it, and dont take all your info from the F&F lots of that movie is wrong...Like the 9 sec Maxima or the Double Shifting (not needed in new cars)

 

I think you mean "narc" from narcotics, also when they said 9-second Maxima I'm guessing they're talking 1/8th miles. Double Clutching (not shifting) is still useful as it saves wear and tear on your syncros by lessening the work they have to do. When your tranny gets worn and you can't downshift very easily at high speed you'll learn to doubleclutch. Plus it's fun.

 

what is this "double clutching"? i heard it in the movie, sounds wierd, i dont know jack about manual(i have some embarrasing stories about me in a car with a manual, but i wont share those ).

 

Nark Narc, same diff you might be true aobut the 1/8, but thats slow for a NOSed supercharged max. But with the new cars Double clutching isn't needed, its just a waste of time..

 

I'd tell you to do a search but I'm too lazy... So, say you're on the Highway at about 50mph and you REALLY want to pass someone. You could downshift into 3rd gear and leave 'em in the dust, but just pushing the shifter into gear and letting out the clutch is hard on the syncros (little bronze bearings, like mini-clutches). Instead of doing this, you first put the shifter in neutral and let out the clutch. The connects the input shaft and the idler gearset shaft on the tranny to the engine since the clutch is engaged. You quickly rev up the engine to ~4,000RPM or so and then push the clutch in and downshift to third. What this does is spin up the first two shafts in the transmission to reduce the amount of correction the syncros must deal with. If you just downshift from 5th to 3rd at 50mph the syncros have to compensate for an increase of ~2000RPM inside the transmission. If you double-clutch, they only have to compensate for a few hundred RPM depending on your skill.

In TF&TF, Dom was talking about double-clutching when you upshift, or letting out the clutch in neutral between shifts so the tranny experiences the same RPM drop that the engine does. In high-stress situations, this would be slightly beneficial to the life of the tranny, but since the Eclipse in the movie had two stages of a 100hp NOS shot plus a T4 turbo (yeah, right), the tranny didn't really stand a chance anyway.

 

Narked on nobody......

 

thats a lot of info, thanks a lot though dude, it helps my limited knowledge about cars

 

when im droppin gears, 4-3, 3-2, etc, i always match the rpms with the gas to where i know its gonna catch while the clutch is down in between the shift, am i basically accomplishing the same thing, or do you only help your tranny by actually doing it in two steps(double clutching)? thanks

 

I do that at low speeds, but when you don't let out the clutch in between, the tranny is still spinning at the speed of the gear you just left. Now the clutch has to make up the difference when you let it out. Matching revs is easier on the engine, but the tranny still has to speed up, this is accomplished as you engage the clutch unless you do a true double-clutch, plus it doesn't do anything for the syncros.

 

DOUBLE CLUTCHING
http://www.driversedge.com/dblcltch.htm

GRANNY SHIFTING
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ranny+shifting

 

I think that's the same article I used when I first started learning to double clutch.

 

I saw that movie, and I thought it sucked.

 

I bought the DVD, you suck.

 

You know me better, Justin. You can't afford me anyway.
This guy I work with talks about that movie non stop. He knows I'm a car guy and so he asked me one day if I had seen the movie. I told him "yeah, I saw it..." the next day he bought it and talks about it every day since. The guy is the total burnout type, despirate to be accepted, and totally pathetic. I guess I just get tired of hearing about that movie from everyone who knows I'm a car guy adn assumes that I worship the flick or something. I really didn't find it any more entertaining than any Stevan Seagull or Van Damme flick. (ooh, boy. I probably just shot myself in the foot there! )

 

Yeah, I do.

What the hell does that mean?

I know I know, it's geared toward adolescents (to be politically correct, young adults, yeah right, I'm as mature as a day-old savings bond) and such, but that doesn't mean you gotta **** all over it. Geez, have a heart. Besides that was OT, so I had to say something (just didn't have the heart to call you a PW). Oh, and if Seagal and Van Damme made a movie where they kicked the crap out of each other, they make millions. Which is more than I can say for any of their other movies.

 

Wanna bet big boy?

 

Uh, why did you link back to this thread?

Oh yeah, don't forget another example of Diesel's automotive know-how: "I'm surprised a 100-shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake. Now we have to replace the piston rings you fried!"

 

Don't forget about Ja Rule's extensive car knowledge, he can look in an engine bay and tell how much Nitrous someone has in their car!

 

i tried the double clutch down shifts, wow. its time consuming since im new to them, but no one in the car can even notice ive switched to a lower gear which usually gives a small bump(not that big cuz i be smooth) but with this i was just watching the tach connect, opposed to feeling it, thanks for the info

 

Actually I don't know. It must have been on my clipboard when I pasted the link.

 

Works doesn't it? Just wait 'til you get good and fast with it, you'll do it all the time. Before long you'll be Heel/Toeing too, that's really hard to learn and even more impressive. Good luck.

 

Thank you! Duble clutching isn't needed on new cars cause of syncros heel toeing can still be used. If you are just that good

 

well i always have been heel toe shifting, cept in these cars you cant rilly do that so the easiest way i found is you have the flat part before your toes half on the brak half on the gas and you just roll your foot to the right a lil bit as if you were heel toe shifting but you just use the top half of your foot on both, works just as good, and 100 times easier!

 

You need some good adjustable pedals. Mades it so much easier...

 

Where did you find adjustable pedals for Max's? I do the same thing he's describing when I heel/toe.