Camaro Kid

I always thought there was the regular everyday shifting...but what is Power Shifting and all the others??

Durr727

Here ya go...

Powershifting
It is effectively shifting without fully releasing the clutch. You keep the gas pedal down while you only use about half the clutch travel to shift hard and fast. This is incredibly hard on a transmission, and in fact simply will not work on most transmissions. Without fully pushing in the clutch on most cars, you can neither pull the shifter out of gear nor put it into a new one (and it will grind as you try).

Granny shifting
It is when you take a slight pause in neutral between gears when shifting. So instead of going smoothly from 2nd to 3rd, you pull out of 2nd, stop for a moment in neutral along the way, then go into 3rd, and let the clutch out again. Very slow.

Double-clutching
It's like granny shifting except that you actually let the clutch out when you're in neutral, bring up the engine RPMs again, then push in the clutch and go into the next gear. And you do it all VERY fast. This was especially necessary on older cars before synchro gears smoothed the processes of changing gears in the gearbox. It is also a way to avoid grinding gears on transmissions that have been damaged by powershifting too much.

anthonydalrymple

Speed shifting: Shifting hard & fast only lightly letting off the gas. This too is hard on a transmission & you usually can hear the gear clash. It's a method of trying to make the trans live a few years before breaking & yet still move quickly... It's my method 'cause I'm too scared of breaking my daily driver at the track & being in a real big pickle......