Who's 7AT is "kicky"

UNKNOWN_370

My Z is an auto... I know what you're saying. you will feel the sensation when you transition from normal to aggressive driving.. once you have established to the car your style is aggressive or calm. It will completely adjust within the minute. Its just a hiccup of the ECU relearning your expectations from the car.

Mecinoid

I buy this... that is about how I see it happening.. a single hiccup and then you over it. But the map takes time to populate the new data so that could take a few minutes. I know that in 10 minutes time my shift points have completely reset to my driving style if I stay in that style. You do bursting and it tends to confuse the mapping a bit and give you weird outcomes to the shifting map. Only my opinion... However, that how it seems to work for me.

Try to stay in one driving style or the other for more than 10 minutes and it will be more apparent to you I think.

This is why at the track you want to take some practice laps.... to get to all set in.

UNKNOWN_370

Your analysis is spot on. On the track though. The weird thing about the Z is this. If you drive hyper-aggressive, like on a track. The Z will read you in seconds over minutes. There something about street driving that changes the Z from reading you quickly. Its like that tranny wwas designed to work on the track. Give it a whirl and let me know.

Mecinoid

Yeah, I noticed that again tonight when I was putting around with the wife. I then tried to show here the difference between auto and sport mode. After the putting around we were doing (looking at xmas lights) it took like a second to shift after tapping the shifter. After I left her at home and ran some twisties for about 5-10 mins it was back to shifting about as fast as I could hit the stick. Much faster than if I had a manual in there.
BTW- I speed shift my Firebird with SC at the track. Most people think that is without clutch and slamming gears. In reality you drive with the gas on the floor hit the clutch and as it hits the bottom your pulling/pushing into the next gear. Here's the part most people miss: Then you side step the clutch letting the pressure pop the clutch pedal back to it's natural state much faster than you can lift your leg .... repeat

Just make sure to inspect your rubber clutch pedal bumper every once and a while or, you'll start hearing some nasty banging.

Warning this will prematurely wear out your clutch and there is grave danger of twisting/snapping input shafts on your tranny if you don't get it just right.

Hence this is why I'm liking the S7 tranny so much! It protects the tranny with fast progressive engagements and then it locks up. Nice .....

Enjoy the ride.
aka Z Driver @ 350Z.com