Power Shifting or Regular Shifting?

ku_yugioh

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What do you think is better? Power shifting: gun gas and switch gear with letting go of gas or Regular Shifting: gun gas and switch gear but let go of gas when shifting? Does it make a difference.

I power shifted at track. Launched burn until like 4K, redline and then into second burned again, shift into 3 burn again.lol. Everytime I shift the car was like moving left and right a little. I didn't try regular shifting that day because I thought I might get a higher time. So what you guess think which one is better?

Also when downing on a race on low rpm is it better to gun the gas or to double clutch? I had a 98 HX stage 1 clutch stock flywheel vs a 2000 si. Hx had intake header. Si: unknown but was lowered and had exhaust. We were in first about 3k rpm. He gunned as you can hear his engine roar and I double clutch and my blew past him like he was standing still and after that he just stayed behind me and Yes it was an Si You can Head the Loud As DOHC Vtec.

When I double clutch we were at 3k rpm and it went up to 6K rpm clutch catches on and I burn out all the way to almost 7k rpm and there is that split second of not buring out and then power shift into second. This is just my experience but My cousin doesn't believe in double clutch so I was an honest opinion and not a "You gonna f**k up your tranny or burn you clutch" comment because I do all the time and my car is perfectly fine.
 

31dev31

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Be prepared to say good bye to your axles, diff, and clutch when you powershift...
 


FreeOfThoughts

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Be prepared to say good bye to your axles, diff, and clutch when you powershift...
learn how to shift as smooth as possible and to match revs very closely instead of just abusing your car to feel it skip the tires, you will go just as fast if not faster. if you aren't very good at matching revs perfect on shifting up, i would not suggest just gassing it to down shift, a double tap would probably save your, well save everything (see above quote) and give you more time to properly throttle your car. watch some youtube videos of professional drivers and you won't see their cars jerking and skipping tires.
 

ku_yugioh

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Yeah! I will try it out. Even if I don't power shift the tires still burn out but if I power shift it burns out more. Also when I powershift the car catches onto a higher rpm in th next gear then when I don't powershift. I been doing this to my car for like 30K miles it is just fine. Never had a problem and the car drives like no tomorrow. But I will think about what you guys say.
 

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Be prepared to say good bye to your axles, diff, and clutch when you powershift...
truth. risking all that damage just to improve ur time by .00x amount of seconds haha...oy
 

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double clutching :smackself
 

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Be prepared to say good bye to your axles, diff, and clutch when you powershift...
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Sparkly oil is cool i guess...
:rolf: touché
double clutching :smackself
:rolf: again. lots of laughs in this thread.



YOU ARE NOT MICHAEL SCHUMACHER.
YOU ARE NOT MARIO ANDRETTI.
YOU ARE NOT PAUL WALKER.
YOU ARE NOT SPEED RACER.
YOU ARE NOT SEBULBA.


however, you ARE definitely destroying your civic because you THINK you are a racecar driver. trust me friend, i know what a stock b16 can handle and i know what it CANNOT handle, and your driving style is definitely not supporting the livelihood of your motor. please, for the sake of your civic and the quality of the threads on this site, stop the shenanigans. THINK OF THE KITTENS!
 
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Billy.

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lol it was that or an infraction, cuz it was pretty bad man :lol:
 

bizoneoeh

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My post was deleted

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HAHA! I'm still able to see it and it was funny tho, made me laugh! the reason for deletion said, "haha." :lol:





but I power shift every time EVEN when I'm driving an automatic. That s**t's not even a question.
 

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Do you even know what double clutching is? I see someone watch Fast and Furious to many times. :smackself: :wak:

Double clutching is for non-synchro transmissions AND when you are down shifting to rev match the rpms.

All you are doing when you do it when accelerating is making excessive noise and looking like an idiot.

Double clutching does NOT help during drag racing.
 

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Just a word of note...

If you're burning out you don't have traction. If you don't have traction, all of your power is not going to the ground. If all of your power is not going to the ground, you're going to go slower.
 

ku_yugioh

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lol. Yeah we are getting off topic and plus I did beat the si in first gear with an hx. He gunned the engine and with car at low rpm the car just slugged down taking a few second before it even catch on and reving up. Like the car just stop for a second and then goes but me on the other hand just blew past him.
 

toneekay

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Practice shifting regular... You'll thank us all later...

And the correct term for the SI trying to launch at such a low RPM means that he "bogged".
 

mike90si

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yea definately listen to these guys, shifting should be smooth, smooth is slow and believe it or not slow can be fast. i pray for your drive trane.
 


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