Sticky: 370Z Transmission Failures (6MT)

edub370

You're an idiot...




for those of u thinking this is "driver error" u are mistaken. i have never owned an automatic car in my life. heck i have a manual volvo running twice the boost as its set at from the factory, it has 165,xxx miles on it. it has the stock trans, STOCK CLUTCH, and has never ever had a probelm with either. mind u, that is a car with about 310lb ft of tq. had an 87 944S with 200k on the clock and NEVR had a trans problem even after going thru 2 clutches. 25 year old car... 200,000 hard miles... rwd...

now, i have had the z for about a year and a half. bout the car with 15,XXX miles on it. at about 20,000 miles the 5th gear synchros starts to go. trans has to be replaced. so either i completely cant drive a manual for 5000 miles, or the z's synchros have a problem.

Also, it SHOULD NOT MATTER if u skip a gear on a transmission. been doing it for 80,000 miles in my volvo and that trans is as smooth as butter (even after some abuse). still fine to this day. synchros do not know which gear u came from... all they do is match rpm speed. a synchro does not see a gear coming and go "mother of good... that thing is spinning 500 rpm faster! i can't handle this!". also, a synchro doesn't have anything to do with tq or hp levels. it simply matches rpm speed. so tt or sc should (theoratically) not cause synchro failure. but clearly there is something wrong with the design of the synchros.

its amazing how people have been skipping from 3rd to 5th since the invention of the 5 speed transmission yet every trans in the world hasn't need replacing.... yet when it happens on a z it "is a driver error". c'mon now. its well documented that we have synchro problems.

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