Very nice and I am totally loving the color. I totally know the feeling. I had a four hour drive home thankfully on the interstate. The clutch definitely took some getting use, but once you do oh boy it is gonna be on a poppin. I am still laughing at your post. Welcome and congrats!:icon18:

You bought a sports car. If you came from a standard manual car it would certainly have been a bit easier to adjust. Even I had issues the first time I drove a 6mt 370 and I've been driving stick since my dad taught me. But think of it this way. When you get used to this manual you'll be able to drive damn near any manual on the planet without issue unless of course it comes with a performance clutch. Then good luck to you. ;) Those suckers drop and you don't even know it did until the car shakes and RPMs read 0. Then you scream because you swear up and down you are good at driving stick so why can't you drive this?! lol. It's all relevant. Take your time and at every light take it slow. As the saying goes, slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

Welcome to the family.

Yea the highway driving feels like im in auto, this chick in a black z wanted to race me... lol

Congratulations....finally! ;)

Hi

i really looked foward to the "hi" and "wel-come aboard" ;p
But yea 4:30 am NY time im home from learning. still cant catch my clutch point sheesh def not a 1-2 day thing

Hi wel-come aboard!

You've been here for a while, lol
The manual is a bitch to drive, but take the helper spring out!!!

Congrats!

yo ! smooth in smooth out!!!

lmfao I laugh because those are the EXACT SAME WORDS my salesman told me....just before I stuffed the manual in the glove compartment.:shakes head:

Took me almost 3 years to take the time to read it. *sigh*:rolleyes:

I've never understood the mentality of not reading the directions. Considering how much these cars cost and how complex they are, it doesn't make sense not to. There's a lot of cool little things in there. And if you get the nav, you pretty much have to read the book to figure out how everything works. Granted, this is coming from the guy who tosses out the instructions on IKEA furniture and looks at it as a personal challenge to figure out how to put it together without them.

:icon18:I see where you're coming from Chuck.

(taking it back to Psych 201 and Econ 201 here....sorry guys lol) I think we all look at certain things from a macro perspective. The complexity of cars matters more to some than others. When you have comsumers whom look at certain things from a "check the block" perspective (like me :icon17:) they will figuratively "fire and forget" things.

When you have your concerning consumers (like yourself) they will take into account all aspects/values/complexities/reviews/concerns/etc of things. It just depends on what you want.

Now as I digress away from the technical, personally the Z car for me was not so much of a big deal, because my dream car is a 2004 Dodge Viper. That would be my "read the manual front-to-back" vehicle. (Braces self in preparation of being pelted with more rotten produce.....) The Z was what I got so I could out-do the guy who beat me to the Army base every day before I deployed. I spent my time in Iraq thinking, "how can I beat that 350Z?"

What I like to do is blip the throttle just before I release the clutch and then back on the gas as I'm pulling my foot off. It helps prevent me from stalling it because rpm's are up and I can listen to the sound of the motor as rpm's dip back down and I start feeding in more gas. I only stall is when I rush it... That's with the stock clutch and helper spring still in place.

Love that color, and grats on the 6mt and having the perseverance to go through the learning curve on a spendy and gorgeous vehicle (I thought about it, but couldn't convince myself to start there).