My car is automitic so it doesnt have it, can someone please describe what the synchro rev does? how it feels etc? I've owned manual trans vehicles before I messed up my ankle I don't know if I was great at it but I was pretty smooth

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, just put your car in manual mode and down shift, that rev match is SRM on the MT.

With synchro rev match, when you step on the clutch and start to move the shifter into a lower gear the system senses which gear your about to go into and blips the throttle to match the revs of the engine to the speed your going in that gear for a nice smooth downshift every time. Instead of having to try and match it yourself.

It's too bad I can't change my vote now. Since September, I've been practicing heel-toe downshifts and now I have the hang of it. So, I prefer to doing it by myself now. SRM is on only when my wife drives. I must say though, that's it's easier to downshift smoother in the STi than the Z. Part of the reason is the Z has touchier brakes.

Don't like it and don't use it.

so in other words you can basically shift without even having your foot on the gas pedal? I don't think I could ever get used to that

Are you trollin?

No, it's you don't need to 'blip' the gas before you lift off the clutch when down-shifting.

This had me laughing :rofl2:

As for me, I know I can drive stick, but I am by no means an expert at heel/toe and SRM makes me feel (and sound) godly

I should take it off every now and then to practice, thats for sure...

I think a lot of people who drive a standard can to heel-toe if they actually spend time practicing. I can do it but I am not able to master the skill. My personal opinion, no matter how good you are with the skill, you can never be as precise as the computer when it comes to rev-matching.

Sure you can gain the feel about how much throttle you're supposed to give when downshifting from 3-2, for example, but you can still be 100-200 rpm off per say. Flexing of human muscles is just never meant to be "precise". Just my thoughts.

Srm on!
 

im 21 years old and can drive manual VERY well. I could heel-toe like a champion in my single turbo 350z when I had it. Since i've had the 370z I think I took SRM off once just to figure out how the button works. Not gonna lie, after reading this thread I turned SRM off just to see if I could still heel-toe and wow was I surprised. I'm EXTREMELY rusty, and thats an understatement. Not only did my heel-toe technique suffer, but my upshifts and my downshifts were sloppy as well. It took me a few minutes of driving before I was able to properly rev match a downshift. Needless to say, we are totally spoiled with synchro rev match. Good thing my next car will be a GTR and I wont have to worry about brushing up on my skills :ughdance:

Damn, a lot of ballers 21 and under in this forum !!

im starting to feel like an old man on here at 23 :rofl2:

if you feel you're old as a 23, just to make you feel better, i'm 28...

Yeah, but a flappy-paddle gearbox is not a real/traditional manual gearbox.

I agree. But with the current technology, pure manual car can no longer provide the best acceleration any more. For a lot of sports cars nowadays, the "auto" is actually faster than the "standard"

Maybe so, but a purest/traditionalist who enjoys a manual gearbox was what I was referring to. (BTW, I voted SRM off.)

I agree with you on this as well. A pure manual will always give the driver the best control for the car. I personally would take a manual over any form of automatic any day, but keep that in mind that a manual is also more prone to human errors. I personally like to have SRM on at all time. This isn't my first manual car, but I just find it make my shifting much smoother than what I could've done just by myself

Fair enough. I just don't use it.

I agree your point, the technology on automatic transmission is getting very good nowadays, they shift faster, accelerate faster, excellent fuel consumption.

The auto-transmission might be 0.2-0.4s faster than a stick-shift in 0-62 under hard acceleration, but, how often do you do those kind of acceleration in real world? So that fraction of time difference in practical use means almost nothing (at least to me).

What does matter, is the enjoyment of fully control the car yourself and having fun doing heel-toe when you feel like to.

Just my $0.02, of course, you like it, use it!! But let your heel do some exercise sometimes. LOL

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Haha...I kinda suck as heel-toe! That's the problem. Perhaps that's why I prefer to use SRM.:icon17: