I use this technique all the time. Just listen to the engine scream and
play it by ear. Double clutching (or double de-clutching) seems to just
feel right in an MG. The otherday I was diving my GF's Ford Probe, I
double clutched to downshift to go around a corner and she said "Why did
you push the clutch twice to downshift?" Now I had to explain it to her,
Wish I coulda just sent her this thread so she could be really confused.
;-)
Lawrie, - no keep the thread, change the needle
Larry
At this exact moment in time 1/27/00 10:52 PM, Lawrie@britcars.com made
the profound statement:
>Exactly! What you describe is what I thought I wrote. David described that
>technique (by a slip of the keyboard, I'm sure) as what Skye called
>single-clutching, but it is, as you rightly state, double-clutching because
>the clutch pedal goes in and out as you "engage" neutral to blip the
>throttle, then in and out again as you engage the lower gear.
>
>Of course, this is probably going to get even more confusing when someone
>reminds us all that the English term for this is "double de-clutching", and
>then questions whether engaging the clutch is the act of depressing the
>clutch pedal (which, technically, disengages it) or of letting it out.
>
>Anyone for a change of thread?
>
>Lawrie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Nelson <ya632@victoria.tc.ca>
>To: British Sportscar Center <mgpa@calweb.com>; David Hill
><davhill@cwcom.net>; Skye Poier <skye@ffwd.com>; MG Nuts
><mgs@autox.team.net>
>Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 7:20 PM
>Subject: Re: double / single clutch
>
>
>>At 15:40 1/27/00 -0800, British Sportscar Center wrote:
>>>Hmmm, David, now there's a puzzling statement! Double-clutching is the
>>>technique where one blips the throttle as one passes through neutral to
>>>match the revs of the lower gear, so I believe you've got it
>>>backwards...........
>>
>> Sorry, but this doesn't make sense at all to me. How can it be
>>double clutching unless you engage the clutch twice? I accelerate during
>>the time in neutral when the clutch pedal is out. That's the way I learned
>>it, anyway.
>> Works on shifting from first to second in an old Land Rover with
>>only 3rd and 4th synchro, without the acceleration but a pause for the
>>gears to slow down to match the higher gear.
>>Paul Nelson
>>
>>
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
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