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Old 01-16-2010, 12:12 AM   #31 (permalink)
Slynky
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Originally Posted by TARDCORE View Post
yeah dude honestly I can't stress enough to test drive the car quite a bit before you drive it. I test drove the Z 3 seperate times while testing other cars as well. I like the feel of being able to feel the hammers engage the next gear but I hate the "clunky" response as it feels like I am destroying my gears. But for the record, I messed up my 3rd gear synchros on my RSXS because I was holding the shifter knob while driving and too many times did I pull it out of gear before the clutch fully stopped the fly wheel. Eventually what began to happenb was when I was carefull with 3rd, it would "pop" out of place with the slightest pressure on the shifter as the clutch was fully engaged. Not to mention that Hondas have bad manual tranny synchros anyway.
Maybe I've been under the wrong impression in my 40+ years of driving. But are you saying the clutch somehow stops the flywheel from rotating? I thought the flywheel was attached to the engine/crankshaft and if the engine was turning, the IT was turning. Pressing the clutch merely (in simplistic terms) separates the spinning flywheel from the rest of the drivetrain so you can, for instance, change to a different gear and then when that's done, you release the clutch allowing the pressure plate/clutch to again make contact with the spinning flywheel.

Have I been mistaken all these years?
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