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Damn it!!! I was hoping you wouldn't take the time to go back and find that! i knew admitting i was wrong would come back to bite me in the ass.... thats the last time i'll ever do that

 

Good point, when in doubt.... Texas is wrong.

I've heard of ricers double clutching too but it seems pretty stupid to me. Seems like it would take way to long to shift. I'm assuming they wouldn't do it when they "race"

 

Do you have to double clutch to spin out in higher gears?

 

By spin out are you meaning breaking the tires loose in say 3rd or 4th, or by spin out did you mean to wind it out and hold that gear untill red line?

in either case, the answer would be not exactly.

If you were trying to wind it out in 3rd in say a drag race, then perhaps if you double clutched you may get a slight accelleration bump as the clutch re-engaged before it hit the rev limiter again, so in that instance, perhaps double clutching without shifting at the line could be of some benefit to the ricers in question.

If you were refering to trying to brake the tiers loose in third or fourth as you were already moving, I suppose that you could do that, though at a certain point, the intertia you are carrying with you verses the rolling resistance and traction of the tires would make that something of a pointless effort, and in any case I think that particular maneuver would be refered to as dumping the clutch as opposed to double clutching.

As for Ricers double clutching because it's "in." Perhaps, I do remember one of the characters in "the fast and the furious" saying something about it, but realistically the only purpose behind double clutching would be to save a very very miniscule amount of wear on the synchros, and the way the ricers treat their clutches, I kind of think minimal wear on the synchros is the least of their problems.

 

I was mostly talking about breaking the tires loose, and it would be just for effect. Isn't appearances all that ricers are about?

I had a guy one time ask about wear on a clutch while it was depressed. We searched online for a howstuffworks.com type of site and together determined there should be any wear once it is depressed. It's the engagement and disengagement that allows wear. But, frankly, I'm not familiar enough to know which parts are the synchros. Maybe I'm off in left field.

 

Exactly. Heavy trucks still do not have Synchros, because when you are talking about hundreds of thousands of miles a year, under heavy load, then a trans without synchros has one less thing to replace, and if you've ever had to deal with a fleet mechanic you'll understand why that is important. LOL.

 

i learned double clutching from watching "the fast and the furious" haha, double clutching has always seemed pointless to me in comparison to the rev matching that i do when downshifting. upshifting, i always hit my points dead on because i shift so quickly, so its butter smooth going up or down

 

i learned how to do that on my wrx, but i stopped when i heard it'll mess up the trannies over time. i'm not sure if it was really bad for it but it couldnt have been good so i just didnt take my chances

 

as far as i know, it will actually wear out the disc faster, since you're using the clutch literally twice as much. ricers like saying they do it because it sounds complicated , they just hope that somebody thats not an idiot wont hear them say it and call them out. quick single-clutch shifting is still the best way to win a race, double clutching may sound like it's cool but it wastes time and makes your leg sore, like the saying "it hurts to be dumb", generally just applies to ricers. i mean come on, they're dumping 10 grand into old civics to get from the 18's down to the 14's...which is still slow..thus making them all idiots

 

For the '06 Taco and other models with the slider window (I call it the dog window because he likes to stick his head through it), I'm wondering if there's some some of little shade gizmo I can mount over the slider area to keep rain out.

Also, are there any good shades for the main cab windows? I don't want to stick anything onto the paint and I've heard the ones that go into the window tracks are not too good.

Thanks.

P.S. My truck is a work truck and is used regularly on a very rough dirt road, so a few rain streaks on the rear window aren't much of a priority for me! To each his own, eh?

 

I actually have one of the shade covers by AVS

 

Power shifting is the term.

Double clutching and avoiding using the syncros will save the syncros. That said, I dont' really do it cause it's a pita.

 

How does it attach? And are you talking about a cover over the slider window or the cab windows? If it's an in-the-track connection, how does that work? Does it interfere with the windows or scratch them?

Thanks.