venting
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:27 am
i just had to share this story......i grew up around cars and i was running 1/4 mile at a local track here as soon as i was 18....havent done it in a long time and other than some redlight racing havent done any racing at all in a long time.....but i was part of a pit crew one year for a guy who was the nhra/ihra world record holder in his class so i have been around some fast cars.....this kid comes in the shop and hes a regular, a little odd but pretty nice kid. anyway he just picked up a 99 cavalier z24 and he is showing it to me, hes never owned a standard shift before and as hes telling me how fast it is i think hes kidding so he starts to tell me how if he double-clutches the thing he can outrun new mustang gt's..........so i ask him why he double clutches it, its not a peterbilt or anything, and he tells me that when you double clutch it makes it jump harder when you dump the clutch......so as i start to tell him about the reason for double clutching in some older cars (model A ford's for example) and the aforementioned big trucks.sloppy trans/synchronizers and the like.....and explain to him that the longer its out of gear the more time you spend deccelerating, he tells me im thinking old school and that everyone double clutches in a race nowadays.....so im thinking damn..........i been doing it wrong all along 