[Tigers] Power Shifts

[Sandy]

Their are a few cases were power shifts are good to go -

1. Rental Cars
2. Looking cool during the violent one time test of your engine and 
driveline.

 From experience it might work on the drag strip with a car set up for 
it doing it.

 From my personal experience in NON RENTAL CARS

1. Broken spider gears D44
2. Twisted pinion  off D44
3. Broken U-Joints
4. Sideways into a parked car
5. Broken off shifter handle
6. Broken engine mount
7. Destroyed engine thrust bearing
8. Cracked/removed friction material on clutch disk

And so on.

Never broke a gear box, but plenty of time for that. But now that I'm 
older and somewhat wiser (only a little) I now reserve the speed 
shifting for rental cars when manuals trans are available. If you want 
to go fast for drag racing just get an automatic something ;)

IMO it's all around it bad for everything although wickedly fun when 
done correctly.

Sandy
Quote - "Is it true Mr. Frankenstein that you can shift faster then a 
1/60th of a second"... No Comment

On 7/9/2014 4:26 PM, Jay Laifman wrote:
> Ok, I realize that there are differences of opinions, and they are not all
> correct - but the holders usually believe their opinion is right.  My dad
> brought me up saying that power shifts were not good, a quick way to burn
> out a clutch, and not the fastest way to accelerate.  He said it was better
> to match speeds, and not to put full power down before the clutch was
> engaged.  By "power shift" I mean an upshift with the clutch in, where
> after you've pushed the lever into the next gear, you floor it, then drop
> the clutch.  I've been to countless car races and I can't say I've ever
> heard a racer do that.  I've never done it.
>
> So my sister was over this last weekend with her husband and son.  The son
> was showing off his new Ford SUV that he swapped out the automatic and
> dropped in a manual.  It was some cool work, and he should be proud.
>   However, when he took my son for a drive, he did full power shifts -
> bragging about getting rubber even in 3rd gear.  When they came back, he
> showed my son some You Tube videos of guys doing the same.  My
> brother-in-law who has some amateur drag racing in his past, just chuckled
> and didn't suggest anything was wrong with it.
>
> What do people think about this?
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