why do people use their automatic as if it is a manual when racing? For example, they use low gear, 2nd, 3rd then drive.

 

More control, I'd guess, but you get slower shifts doing it manually with an auto than if you just left it, so it's false logic.

Unless you have an automatic with a good shift kit, in which you can shift very fast like this. I assumed you meant the neighbourhood kid with the Cavalier or something, though!

 

you can control the revs through 1, 2. If you set the tranny to 1, it will not upshift until you move it to 2. I don't know if this is faster or not than letting it go by itself.

 

i have actually wondered this as well....i guess its a great mystery of our time

 

Cause people obviously think it makes there car faster.. I do it just to get second gear to spin, lol... but if I do race I just leave it in drive

 

i do it sometimes when accelerating slowly.

i have 3.90 gears and my car shifts through all the gears extremely quicky when i accelerate slowly (i'm in overdrive by 30 mph)

 

It's fun, stop bitching.

I will spin second while manually shifting, and barely chirp it while in D. (Pre 4.30's)

 

Is it bad on the transmission to do that at all, it seems a bit jeky when you do that? Also what about down shifting with the auto, is that bad? sorry, not trying o steal thread..

-Brett

 

im gonna have a manual valve body in mine, so i have to

 

It does slowly eat away at the clutch packs, hence the harder shifts. As far as how it works, you have to remember wheel spin makes you slower. Stock in Drive I ran anywhere between 14.6-14.7. Manually shifting I was 15.0-15.1. It would spin harder into 2. Stock I could bark tires all day going into 2 in Drive, with mods I was doing into 3rd a couple times before 4.10's. Now with 4.10's it will grab 2nd and 3rd everytime, hell it will grab 2nd with a little peg of the gas 1/4 way down to about 15mph. I haven't driven another auto GT that will do it like mine though, and I have Nittos on it as well.