I assume you do not have sports package (w/ SRM). I am also assuming there are no grinding noises or anything like that. If you wait too long in neutral for an upshift, your RPMs might drop a little low for a smooth gear shift. At the higher gears you will drop fewer RPMs so you might find yourself needing to let out the clutch quicker than you would for a 2nd to 3rd shift. If the RPMs drop too low you'll feel the transmission struggle as you let out the clutch, but it shouldn't physically prevent you from shifting into the gear if the clutch pedal is fully depressed. To help out the transmission, you can blip the accelerator to bring the RPMs back up to an acceptable number for your gear shift. When downshifting while braking, this maneuver is called heel-toe.

Its an 09 with 59k miles, lol so yea it was driven a lot. But I bought it 6 months ago, I figure they wouldve change all of that before they sold it (not the owner, but the dealer)

the maintenance simply says "inspect"... switch it over to a synthetic like Redline MT-85 and I bet you'll see a noticeable improvement

I had to read that like 3 times, and still cant fully understand. But I will play around with it, I have been observing when its most convinient to shift up or down. I'm getting the hand of it though, Love the driving its aweseome

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Oil Never mind I google it

Love how impossible some people make the mt on this car seem. Really wondering how many people were ACTUALLY DD'ing mt's before they picked up the Z.

You only need two gears to hit 60mph for eff sakes.

OP said this was his first MT

Wasn't talking about the op.

Lol, I kinda agree with your point anyways, but I still don't like the manual on the 370Z


I have no idea why they made the clutch pedal feel so linear... I like heavy clutches, but this isn't heavy, just lifeless...

lol That's true.

Not to sound cool but sometimes I'm driving so fast I dont even notice how fast im going.

Example I was hitting 80mph on a 35mph zone (no cars obviously) and I was probably on 4th gear and OMG I swear I was just enjoying the ride until I realize and told my self "Alright Robert (thats my name) you gotta calm down" lol

Lol, no offense but you sound really young.... please for god sakes leave your VDC on...

Hey dude, best not to talk about that kinda thing on the forum. ;)

But yea, the car is deceptively quick. Flat torque curve.

Im 23, So Im kinda young. Its my first REAL, my own, I Pay with my own Money car, and the 370Z is probably is in my top 5 favorite cars. So everytime I get in my car I have this huge smile lol

Now that I have quite a few people looking at this thead. I have another question but I dont want to start another thread.

What is your take on taking off on 1st Gear or 2nd Gear? I started taking off in 1st gear but when I realize that i was having to shift to 2nd so fast I decided to just take off on second gear all the time lol. I was unsure whether that was bad for the car or if its not a big deal. What do you guys think?

Fair, I'd like to stick with manuals for as long as possible since I'm pretty sure we will be seeing a lot less of them in the near future.