Ok, I was out driving tonight and caught a red light. When it turned green I let the clutch out a little slow then hit the gas hard for some "spirited" acceleration. I lost traction and wheel hopped pretty bad. As I was reving out through first, the tach suddenly jumped to the fuel cut and I noticed that the gear shift lever had popped out of gear and into neutral. Could it have been the wheel hop that popped it out of gear or was it something else?

 

Perhaps Wheel Hop??

Though i have noticed lack of fluid will pop gears out also!!


eric

 

Same exact thing happened a few times on my friends ITR tranny. He's using poly mount inserts and drag radials, but gets a little hop in first, and it pops out of first. Good thing he caught it, no rev limiter

 

So what do you think is the most likely culprit then, wheelhop? I forgot to mention, I have an Exedy PP with 6 spuck sprung hub disk if that would make a difference.

 

next time just hold your shifter tight

then it wont happen again

 

happened once at low rpm's to me but never at high rpm's

 

Under hard acceleration?

 

Interesting....any other comments?

 

Ok I performed a little "experiment". I put my car in gear, brought rpm's up to like 2k(running a 6 puck), and launched while watching the shifter without holding it. I had a bit of wheelhop and the shifter wiggled around quite a bit as the car hopped, until I regained traction and took off. Is this normal? Could this have been why my car popped out of gear?

 

wheelhop isn't good for a lot of components on your car.. get some traction bars, better tires, suspension and avoid wheel hop at all times.. - it brakes stuff. I never force any shift, i push clutch/shift into gear/i might rest my hand on the shifter, but never force shifts - i don't see any advantage to such.

One possibility is your clutch could be worn out - its 6puck and they don't last as long, it also got springs - doesn't grab as well.

 

I thought 6 pucks lasted longer than an organic disk? ALso my clutch cant really be that worn since I've only had it for a couple months.

 

i hope it's not a bad synchros..

 

it's the synchros saying bye bye.

 

So ur saying my first gear synchro is worn? I think that its just the movement of the engine back and forth under wheelhop.