Does powershifting help at the 1/4 mile?
Does powershifting **** up the tranny if done correctly? or anything at all?
My D16y8 is only equipped w/ a cai everything else is stock, when i powershift I change gears at 6600. I do it alot when driving will it **** up my ride?

Thanks for the feedback.

 

Yes powershifting will shorten your e.t. (about .2-.3 better for vs regular speed shifting)

And yes it's real hard on your tranny

 

well i dont know about .2 or .3, maybe .1. Its hard on a clutch cause all your doing is riding the clutch for that split second while you are shifting.

steve

 

Some people dont even use the clutch to powershift,just rip it in and out of gear with the gas pedal floor. You gotta have the right touch to do it right or youll miss but when you do it right,its without a doubt a lot quicker than .1 sec.

 

worth .2-.3 in the 1/4, very HARD on the shifter forks.

 

Some people dont even use the clutch to powershift,just rip it in and out of gear with the gas pedal floor.

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i always thought pwershifting was never letting go of the throttle and pushing in the clutch really fast.

steve

 

lol rip it out of gear? i haven't seen that.

 

sorry dude, if u dont know wtf ur talking about then dont say it. you can pull a car out of car and put it into gear with out using the clutch, but it's pointless cuz u have to wait for the rpms to go down to match and go into gear, i've done it on my gen4 prelude. that by no means is fast, in fact it is VERY slow. power shifting is stayin on the gas and working the clutch real quick while shifting. i say there's no need to do that even tho u mite be slightly faster, cuz it hurts ur car in the long run. just shift quick, get ur hand and feet coordination worked up.

 

VERY nicely said

 

[QUOTE]sorry dude, if u dont know wtf ur talking about then dont say it. you can pull a car out of car and put it into gear with out using the clutch, but it's pointless cuz u have to wait for the rpms to go down to match and go into gear, i've done it on my gen4 prelude. that by no means is fast, in fact it is VERY slow. [QUOTE]

i dont know wtf i'm talking about..fucc u buddy...its not BS,its coming from personal exprience.my stock 91 civic si w/slicks ran a best of 16.39 normal quick shifting..ran a best of 16.15 powershifting and a best of 16.02 without using the clutch to shift..and wtf,,you never heard of someone shifting like this before? u must be a newbie to drag racing.Believe me ,i'm not the 1st or the last to shift it like that.

 

Sounds like you can kiss your tranny good bye if you kep doing that!

 

O ya,you got that right.i did kiss it goodbye,like 2 weeks later but at the time i did it,i didnt give a F about it cause the tranny did have over 120,000 miles on it and i had a rebuilt engine and tranny w/lsd ready to go in..i was desperate and pissed trying to get that tired D16a6 into the 15s..it never did make it.

 

Sounds like he has to learn how to quote as well.

 

I personanly wouldn't powershift my ride. I plan on keeping my tranny for awhile. My cousin' had a 95' LS on which he liked to switch fast and hard, not powershifting, just regular shifting, and he ****ed up his tranny in about a month.

 

......he got you there buddy. i too will be in favor of powershifiting. its a great method but is hard on the tranny components. i dont do it too often but its a fun way to drive

 

just shift fast dont believe in all the hype