I've been driving legally for 38 years and I learned to drive in a Meyers Manx dune buggy off road a couple of years earlier. For all but a couple
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I always use my SRM...it's too nice to turn off. | 118 | 57.84% | |
I never use my SRM...I'm a purist. | 20 | 9.80% | |
Sometimes SRM is on, sometimes I turn it off. 50%/50% | 11 | 5.39% | |
I have SRM ON more often than not, but it's off occasionally to remember the 'old' days. | 39 | 19.12% | |
I have SRM OFF mostly. I turn it on when I'm lazy or have a special situation. | 16 | 7.84% | |
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12-05-2009, 10:42 AM | #16 (permalink) |
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I've been driving legally for 38 years and I learned to drive in a Meyers Manx dune buggy off road a couple of years earlier. For all but a couple of those years I owned manual transmission cars. It's very hard to break habits and muscle memory when driving. It's been hard enough not to have my keys in my hand and reach for the ignition switch when I get in the car. I had the SRM on for the first week or so after buying the car and even while driving it easy during the break in I forgot about it and had some strange experiences when starting to blip the throttle and downshift just from habit. Now I leave it off except for a couple of times I've been able to take it for a mountain drive. Even then I had to conciously avoid rev matching manually. I'll have to try it a few more times to get used to it, but for daily driving it's off. I'm old school I guess.
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12-05-2009, 06:55 PM | #17 (permalink) |
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During my break-in period (1st 1.5k miles) I didn't use SRM. Since then I don't leave home without it. I left it off by accident on 2 occasions. During a sweeping left hander I down shifted from 6th to 4th gear and the rear end slid a little bit. Thankfully it was controllable. Also when I was doing 40mph in 6th gear and down shifted yet again to 4th and the rear wheels gave a really nice chirp.
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12-05-2009, 07:17 PM | #18 (permalink) |
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After 40 years of Rev Matching manually, I'm more than happy to now let the car do it. I can spend more time on line selection, brake modulation etc. It does make you a better driver if you use it that way. Technology is a wonderful thing. Screw that old school stuff...I've paid my dues. (more than a few times)
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12-05-2009, 08:34 PM | #19 (permalink) |
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I found that my track days were much more focused on lines, braking points, etc instead of worrying about rev matching. Gone are the days of wincing during downshifts, wondering if you got it spot on or missed it badly and have a big lurch coming as you release the clutch.
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12-05-2009, 08:49 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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I will have to get use to it.
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12-05-2009, 08:52 PM | #21 (permalink) |
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I use it always.
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12-05-2009, 08:56 PM | #22 (permalink) |
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Anyone who says they don't like the SRM is a Luddite. (look it up)
Prolly the same folks who laughed at power steering, air conditioning and fuel injection.
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12-05-2009, 10:55 PM | #23 (permalink) |
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I switched it of 2 or 3 times, only to realize the car does a better job at it then I will ever do... (even after more then 15 years of practicing)
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12-29-2009, 10:02 AM | #27 (permalink) |
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my brother took my car to his dealership one day to tint my car. he had the SRM off when i got back in the car. i go to downshift in some rush hour traffic and nose dive hard lol. since then i leave it on, souly for downshifting. i usually double up on the upshifting blip as i have a habit of holding the gas for just an extra second.
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12-29-2009, 11:24 AM | #28 (permalink) |
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drive the car with it on since day one
im lucky to have another MT car so i dont forget how to rev match myself
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04-14-2011, 01:29 AM | #29 (permalink) |
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sorry to bump an old thread...but id really like to see this poll taken by others. ive been driving with SRM off for the last 100 miles or so. at first when i turned it off, i realized how lazy and SLOW my shifting has become. i will shift and the revs will drop too low and ill jerk back, but once i go back to shifting like a non SRM car, then my shifts are smooth again! ive totally become spoiled by SRM (since it holds revs between gears)
however, once going back to SRM, ive realized its kind of a pain to have on...i mean aside from the simple, idiot proof downshifts (my first downshift with SRM off lead to a jerk...totally forgot to rev-match). with SRM on, ive come to not really like the fact that it holds revs between gears. my shifts have become jerky with it on now, as the revs are not dropping fast enough, so its jerking forward. who else has experienced the difference in driving with SRM on/off?? i ask because i feel that if i get into another 5mt/6mt, i'd be embarrassed at how jerky my shifting is, thanks to the SRM making me a lazy shifter! |
04-14-2011, 01:41 AM | #30 (permalink) |
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I have SRM ON more often than not, but it's off occasionally to remember the 'old' days.
This is me to a tee. I wish the throttle was as responsive for me as it is for the SRM.
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