Originally Posted by 10GTPony

Curious: what do you have now? 3.31? 3.73? other?

You may want to get some more practice in before switching out the gears.

I was a shoddy manual transmission driver for quite a while at first.

Even now, I sometimes give my passenger a less than smooth sailing ride by popping the clutch a tad too quickly or too early. (I'm comparing "smooth" to what a passenger experiences when in an A/T equipped vehicle.)

It's an almost an "art" to drive a manual like it's an A/T. It does take practice, and some folks are just naturally better than others at it right out of the box, so to speak.

P.S. By the way, heed what poster Tylus said about taking care of your clutch. Good info there.