I've never driven Manual

dad

I'd recommend a "slightly sloped drive way"! Much safer than a hill, and less nerve wrenching!

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dad

Sit in a chair, close your eyes. Envision the clutch pedal, gas pedal. Think of what you need to do, to drive the car! Drive a route in your head!

I'm serious, I'm not BS you one bit!

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Devil Z

Thanks guys, I'll try all your advice. The funny thing is I didn't know exactly how to operate a "Manual" lol, and the car was parked with the E-Brake. I thought I could just put the clutch down, shift into first while in park just to put it in first, soon as I let the clutch go it stalled. I wasn't embarrassed about the stall but the mere fact that I did something so blind.

SocalBurt

Hey Devil Z when I got my 350z I had never even touched a manual transmission and I can tell you I caught on in like a week. With tons of practice I'm now excellent at it but yeah take it slow or you'll risk damaging the cars transmission. The 370z has a reworked transmission but its a good car to learn on cuz of the torque, Hondas for example are hard to learn on cuz you gotta rev the suckers so as not to stall but with the 370 learning should be easy. Maybe practice on a friends car lol!

Devil Z

Really?? I drove a RSX Type S the first time I ever used manual, then messed up in a 350Z, but when I really start taking the test to drive stick in the street I will be using a 5.0 Mustang GT. The Clutch will be worse I heard.

Crash

Yeah. The clutch on the fox-body mustangs are cable only. So the clutches are REALLY stiff compared to today's hydo-assist clutches.

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semtex

If it makes you feel any better, I know a guy who bought a Mustang and did the same thing, except he managed to keep it in gear and kept driving!!! The dude drove for 10 miles with the E-brake still on, and then pulls into the parking lot of the place where I was meeting him for dinner, with smoke billowing out of the rear wheels, and tells me he thinks something might be wrong with his Mustang. And then he realized he never disengaged the E-brake! I about wet myself laughing at him.

Those Mustang drivers are a special breed. I'll just leave it at that.

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zero

You forget to gas it as you let the clutch go or remember that left foot up, right foot down.

Crash

Perfectly OK... The first week I was driving stick, I'd forgot that you have to clutch in at a stop (or put the car in neutral) and I just drove like it was an auto. The second I got up to the line, **Plop** it stalled. Usually in most gears you get a little warning about stalling - the car will start to shutter a little and bog, followed by some mild vibrations. That should be enough to remind you to clutch in or give it gas.

I learned to drive stick on a car with no torque or power, so getting into a car with torque made driving stick MUCH easier.

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