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Originally Posted by kenchan you have a non SRM, i take it? clutch-in, shift to lower gear, blip, clutch-out smoothly. (i think, i do it without thinking so i need

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Old 04-27-2011, 01:47 PM   #4 (permalink)
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you have a non SRM, i take it? clutch-in, shift to lower gear, blip, clutch-out smoothly.

(i think, i do it without thinking so i need to think if that was the sequence. )

you'd do this before turns or down a slope or just slowing down in general.
you got it. you'll definitely jerk forward/back a few times while learning to manually downshift/rev match at the right rpm, but its so worth it! i still turn off SRM from time to time to see if i can still do it
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