I think I'm Shifting Wrong

MJB

Wow, some of you guys most of just had bad luck with your trannys. My 09 shifts nice and smooth, same with two previous 350z's I owned.

And I would never own an automatic sports car

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R0bDC

Sometimes I feel that it wont left me shift to the right gear, Is that because its not the right gear I should be shifting to?

MJB

Is this before or after the dealership replaced your CSC?

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R0bDC

Its always been like that

JARblue

When you say it won't let you shift to a gear, can you give a much more specific example? Are you downshifting or upshifting? What RPMS? Do you have SRM (rev match)? I assume you have the clutch pedal depressed and are trying to shift into a gear other than 1st. Up to about 55 mph you should be able to shift into any gear except 1st and reverse, of course. The other day SRM basically redlined me in neutral at 60 mph when I accidentally pulled the shift knob all the way over to 2nd while trying to go from 6th to 4th gear

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R0bDC

Sometimes I'm going pretty fast like lets say 5th gear, 4 or 5 RPM's, about 70MPH and I try to shift to 6th gear and it feels likes it wont let me until the car slows down a bit. Now take that example and think about 3rd gear going 50mph and when I try to switch to 4th it wont let me. I feel like If I shift really fast it will but If I dont shift within 2 seconds it blocks me.

Hopefully that makes sense

chrischhorn

its an 09 with how many miles? try changing the trans fluid. couldve been a hard driven car by the previous owner. new trans fluid can do wonders.

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R0bDC

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)

JARblue

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

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JARblue

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.

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R0bDC

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

Haboob

I hate that.

Sometimes I'll throw it in neutral and coast up to a light, but it rev matches me to about 4k at times (depending on when I do it)... then I look around all embarrassed.

Or, I hit the gate (but don't put it in) for 3rd when going 4th to 5th and it rev matches it to 3rd... lol.

JARblue

Exactly.. I had to break myself of the habit of always coasting to a stop in neutral which I did when I had my Explorer Sport. At highway speeds the SRM gets really agitated

Also, I'm not sure about the so-called linear feel... my friend's 2003 Mustang Cobra clutch was linear. The Z isn't even close - we both drove each other's cars. Driving his car in traffic for more than 15 min was literally a left leg workout that would leave you sore. He recently replaced the clutch with aftermarket and it is much more similar to the Z now. I agree with MJB...

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