Finally Home In my New Car

blackcherry20

YOU are old?! Lol!!

Anyways!!! CONGRATS OP!!!
Love your post! literally laughing out loud and reading it to my hubby!!!
Way to stick to it Z bro way to go!!!

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10MPlayer

I remember back in '66 my old man saying 'any idiot can drive a car hard but it takes a man with skill to drive it smooth.' (yeah, I'm old as h3ll.) Just think about making it smooth. Feather the clutch a little until you get used to it. By that I mean give it a little gas then slip the clutch out slowly until it catches. You want to get away from feathering it eventually because it'll wear it out if you do it forever but while you're learning for a few days it's okay.

I drove m/t from the time I was 15 until I was in my 50's. I tried the manual in the 2013 Nismo and decided to go with the a/t in the base model. I decided at my age I just don't want to deal with all that shifting. After a while my old knee starts to hurt. Why deal with that? I'm not a racer.

/Angelo350Z/

Practice by making the vehicle move just by releasing the clutch without stepping on the gas. Of course, you'll have to do this very slowly in your driveway or an empty street. You'll get used to the engagement point quicker than you think. Then practice this on an incline, this time just giving it enough gas so the Z won't stall, but still won't move.

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Z-Girl 12

Very nice and I am totally loving the color. I totally know the feeling. I had a four hour drive home thankfully on the interstate. The clutch definitely took some getting use, but once you do oh boy it is gonna be on a poppin. I am still laughing at your post. Welcome and congrats!

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Tigger

You bought a sports car. If you came from a standard manual car it would certainly have been a bit easier to adjust. Even I had issues the first time I drove a 6mt 370 and I've been driving stick since my dad taught me. But think of it this way. When you get used to this manual you'll be able to drive damn near any manual on the planet without issue unless of course it comes with a performance clutch. Then good luck to you. Those suckers drop and you don't even know it did until the car shakes and RPMs read 0. Then you scream because you swear up and down you are good at driving stick so why can't you drive this?! lol. It's all relevant. Take your time and at every light take it slow. As the saying goes, slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

Welcome to the family.

Minsu

Yea the highway driving feels like im in auto, this chick in a black z wanted to race me... lol

nepali

Congratulations....finally!

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2009 370Z Sport/Touring 6MT sold
2013 Honda Civic Si coupe D/D

Minsu

i really looked foward to the "hi" and "wel-come aboard" ;p
But yea 4:30 am NY time im home from learning. still cant catch my clutch point sheesh def not a 1-2 day thing

DEpointfive0

Hi wel-come aboard!

You've been here for a while, lol
The manual is a bitch to drive, but take the helper spring out!!!

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2003SLVRSNAKE

Congrats!

ajc1884

yo ! smooth in smooth out!!!

Chuck33079

I've never understood the mentality of not reading the directions. Considering how much these cars cost and how complex they are, it doesn't make sense not to. There's a lot of cool little things in there. And if you get the nav, you pretty much have to read the book to figure out how everything works. Granted, this is coming from the guy who tosses out the instructions on IKEA furniture and looks at it as a personal challenge to figure out how to put it together without them.

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fonzo179

I see where you're coming from Chuck.

(taking it back to Psych 201 and Econ 201 here....sorry guys lol) I think we all look at certain things from a macro perspective. The complexity of cars matters more to some than others. When you have comsumers whom look at certain things from a "check the block" perspective (like me ) they will figuratively "fire and forget" things.

When you have your concerning consumers (like yourself) they will take into account all aspects/values/complexities/reviews/concerns/etc of things. It just depends on what you want.

Now as I digress away from the technical, personally the Z car for me was not so much of a big deal, because my dream car is a 2004 Dodge Viper. That would be my "read the manual front-to-back" vehicle. (Braces self in preparation of being pelted with more rotten produce.....) The Z was what I got so I could out-do the guy who beat me to the Army base every day before I deployed. I spent my time in Iraq thinking, "how can I beat that 350Z?"

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