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Originally Posted by mattjk I can heel-toe just fine. It is sad you have to rely on that. You know, I felt the same way when I bought the car.

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Old 08-20-2009, 01:27 PM   #16 (permalink)
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I can heel-toe just fine. It is sad you have to rely on that.

You know, I felt the same way when I bought the car. In fact, I kept the Synchro-Match turned off for the first month. Of the 25 cars I've owned, only one was a slush-box. I get in about 10-12 track days a year, (mix of autocross and driver education days). Lots of practice trail-braking and balancing the car on the power out of turns.

Now I'm beginning to change my thinking. Two weeks ago I tracked my Z for the first time. I started off as usual, but after a number of laps, I turned on the SM to play with it. To my surprise, I found that the reliable 100% match on downshifts means I'm getting slightly better lap times.

It probably won't change how I drive day-to-day. I hate how the SM blips the throttle when I'm just slowing to a stop and take the car out of gear. But the reliability of the automated matching does seem to matter on a track.

Just another data point for your consideration.
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Old 08-20-2009, 01:47 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Can you limited slip your differential?


who cares about the viscous sports lsd. rather get a better torsen or clutch type.

you guys have fun with your sports package parts that break.

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again, I'd rather not pay for crap i'm going to change or take off in the first place.
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Gimmick? you are on crack - its like saying paddle shift dual clutches are gimmicks... to each their own... but with equal drivers one w/ SRM and one w/out - the one who uses it will be noticeably faster around the same track...
Really? I heel/toe with the best of em, not happenin sir. BTW, I agree, the wings foogly.
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HAHAHA plus can you perform a perfect heel toe every time you downshift?
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Really? I heel/toe with the best of em, not happenin sir. BTW, I agree, the wings foogly.
thank you. just another thing to dumb down society. to my it is instinctual. you people aren't going to drive a 370z for the rest of your life, learn how to drive properly like a good driver should.
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All you guys with them new fangled things like SRM, LSD, leave us ol schoolers alone. By the way how do ya'll like that fancy fuel injection, and electronic ignition on them there horseless carriages. Fad or do you think they will catch on?
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thank you. just another thing to dumb down society. to my it is instinctual. you people aren't going to drive a 370z for the rest of your life, learn how to drive properly like a good driver should.
Quite the tech snob, eh?
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thank you. just another thing to dumb down society. to my it is instinctual. you people aren't going to drive a 370z for the rest of your life, learn how to drive properly like a good driver should.
Slaging people instead is a better way to enlighten society.....

I guess of course the same thing could be said about computers dumbing down people's ability to use punctuation, etc...
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thank you. just another thing to dumb down society. to my it is instinctual. you people aren't going to drive a 370z for the rest of your life, learn how to drive properly like a good driver should.
One instinct you don't have is proper spelling and grammar.
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