paddleshifts

[totoseow]

to all who have experience using Ferrari F1 shifts, maserati cambiocorsas, M3 SMG, lambos e-gear...

can you pls tell me what is the smoothest method to:

1. upshifts
2. downshifts


i m trying to find out which way will be fastest as well as which way is the least likely to wear out your clutch....ie..lift off gas, click, slow gas in...or click, lift off n gas in....etc etc...

thanks.

 

[SMYUEN]

Re: paddleshifts

Yo my friend!

Congrats on your new and coming hot hot ride... and welcome to the family of Italian love-me-hate-me-but-cant-live-without-you cars.

From my experience, the best way to prevent clutch wear is to NOT drag the engagement of 1st gear. That means - up slope = not "half clutch". Throttle and engage 1st gear as completely as possible OR brake and stop. So its stop-move-stop-move.. not using throttle to maintain balance on a slope.

Second is = city driving is bad... US forums will tell you horror stories of cars doing several thousand miles of city driving and clutch gone. Highway driving (N-S..haha) is perfectly fine. Think the cars are built that way.

New ECU - the newer ECUs have better gear shifts (less jerky) but how much this impacts clutch wear I am not sure.. For the new ECUs, you dont even need to lift off much... just a slight ease is enuf... after a while, it is subconscious already.

For me its throttle-flip paddle-slight eas off-throttle again..

for WOT and to do 0-100kmh... just floor, wait for red line bang-bang-bang and flip.. its addictive. Have fun!

Btw: I have changed clutch once (premature at 12,000km) but under warranty.

Cheers!

SM

 

[Physicist]

Re: paddleshifts

OT... I thought MR toto bought a GeeTee Tree instead?

 

[totoseow]

Re: paddleshifts

tx doc. will prolly need to meet up to understand..but tik me rufly gets it.

toto kenna toto bot 3 cars.....last one is toyota...just wun buy cayman

 

[Physicist]

Re: paddleshifts

Bro you're a trip! Love your sense of humour. I must meet you for coffee one day (non ghey meet up). My orifice is near ORQ

End OT

 

[totoseow]

Re: paddleshifts

cool anytime...just pm me...going to be very free for next 6 mths....

 

[The Mixmaster]

Re: paddleshifts

cool anytime...just pm me...going to be very free for next 6 mths....

Gardening leave?

 

[totoseow]

Re: paddleshifts

bank kenna takeover....i sit there shake leg.

 

[The Mixmaster]

Re: paddleshifts

Enjoy it whle you can bro.

What SMYUEN said below is my experience too with the E46 M3 SMG II.

"From my experience, the best way to prevent clutch wear is to NOT drag the engagement of 1st gear. That means - up slope = not "half clutch". Throttle and engage 1st gear as completely as possible OR brake and stop. So its stop-move-stop-move.. not using throttle to maintain balance on a slope."

Once I tried to balance the car up a slope while waiting to come out of Suntec's carpark which had a build-up of traffic coming out, the clutch warning light came on. I've learnt to drive it in the stop-move-stop-move mode or put it into auto mode.

At WOT, if I don't lift off the trottle before I upshifting gears, the BMW's SMG II gearbox is jerky, leaving a clunking sound and passengers thinking that you left your gearbox behind.

SMYUEN is also right that these cars with SMG-type gearboxes are happier on the North South than in the city. I hate being stuck in traffic jams in my M3. Feel like bumping the cars in front out of the way "EA's Burnout Revenge" style but of course cannot lah. Almost everyday, there is such a long traffic jam from Suntec to the ECP. Sigh.

 

[Physicist]

Re: paddleshifts

My limited experience with flappy paddle gearboxes tells me that you need a lil uplift on the throttle during upshifting for smooth transition. This is more specifically for Alfas. M3 and GTi doesn't apply.

Anyway.. that takeover literally creates a Dutch-English tie up. Dutch East India company??? :yikess:

 

[SEI]

Re: paddleshifts

just an fyi my m3 i had for a bout 9 months?? clutch changed 2x

 

[totoseow]

Re: paddleshifts

My limited experience with flappy paddle gearboxes tells me that you need a lil uplift on the throttle during upshifting for smooth transition. This is more specifically for Alfas. M3 and GTi doesn't apply.

Anyway.. that takeover literally creates a Dutch-English tie up. Dutch East India company??? :yikess:

takeover is a sold out...the farking dutch sold to the brits to protect their jobs....since its gonna be HQ in amsterdam. anyway i dun care..they gave some of us golden handcuffs...doesnt matter how much money i make for the bank...still paid the same come feb 08.

 

[totoseow]

Re: paddleshifts

just an fyi my m3 i had for a bout 9 months?? clutch changed 2x

u solid mah...drove 200kmh in cemetery type..wahahaha..