I could not tell you what rpm is right, but under 2K is probably spot on... it works at low rpm. I will have to try it later this week It was easier on older cars.. When I had my 68 I went about 300 miles like that as the clutch fork broke...the only hard part was starting out.. thankfully I had a good battery and starter! I will never forget that.. but I learned how to match revs!

 

i always thought power shifting, rev matching was done racing up the higher rpm's?
i know to rev match when downshifting so you dont get the jolt when it does grap that lower gear. but power shifting, i was always under the impression that it, was done up around redline. could easily be wrong though. this is why i started the thread to see if others could do it. so i could tell myself that it is normal, but dont try it anymore.

 

Power shifting involves pushing in the clutch to shift, but keeping the accelerator on the floor. This has nothing to do with power shifting.

 

thanks for clearing that up for me. like i said i was probably wrong. and was. lol

 

i used to do that all the time in my jeep, ive tried it a couple of times in the stang but dont wanna push it since this is the nicest car ive ever had. i dont think its anything to worry about until you start grinding the gears doing it, but i wouldnt push my luck

 

im not going to push my luck either. not like im trying to shift into another gear. i can just pop it out of gear and into neutral. but at least i know others have done it. not just me

 

The point is: No, there is nothing wrong with the car.

 

gotcha. but this is why i asked the question in the first place. now i know. thanks texotic and everyone else who replied

 

As said every stick shift car you can put the shifter into gear and pull it out of gear without a clutch.

What rev it's done as is different for every gear in every car.

As long as you don't hear grinding, everything is fine. If you want to try, drive down the road doing like 25ish, and pop it into neutral, and rev to about 3500 and let it the revs go down on there own and hold the shifter right above 2nd. Don't pull it into gear, just pull it some until you feel it hit. just hold it there, like right when it gets stuck, and if you pull a SLIGHT bit, so as not to grind it into gear, just enough to hold it where it get stucks because the clutch isn't in, the shifter will literally fall into 2nd at the correct rev.

Good thing to know in case the clutch goes out. As someone earlier had said that drove like x amount of miles w/o a clutch, doing the exact same thing.

 

Technically you are right..theoretically rev matching is at higher revs... usually associated with downshifting at high rpm,s You rev the car so that wehn you hit the lower gear you minimise drive line lash... so I am wrong in stating that you are rev matching.. I guess what I mean , and others say is that the revs are so closely matched that the car will slide in and out of gear... and not under load.. that is why it happens at lower rpm, and so easily from 4th to 4rd. SO... rev matching is the wrong explanation! Its good to have these discussions