Hills will now become a nightmare and so will traffic.
Welcome to the manual world! :tup:

i learned manual on the 370z in march and its very forgiving.

With Reverse, you dont fully let go of the clutch. You have to keep your foot on the clutch and play with the gas, if you let Reverse get into gear by letting go of the clutch, you will move like a bat out of hell.

for like 4 solid days i struggled, and was getting buyers remorse becuase i could not get past the struggle of starting from zero to first smoothly. Then i went to a flat surface and tested letting out the clutch with no gas. Thats right, if you let it with out any gas, it lets you feel where it stalls at, once you know where it stalls at, you know when to get gas.

You also can feel when it starts to move on a flat surface, thats a indicator of when you need gas too.

That little trick helped me out greatly. YOu need to stall it a few times to get a good feel of the sweet spot.

After i did that, i drove around for 2 hours each night around town, stoping, hills, all like 2am when nobody is out.

Some hills give me a little trouble becuase i still have not mastered a 100% smooth acceleration on a steep hill with out the e brake.

:pics:

Whenever I teach someone to drive a manual, I always tell them the most important thing to remember is...

Gas before clutch.

Never let your foot out on the clutch unless you are giving the engine some gas, otherwise you will stall and freak out because the car just shook like a crazed animal before dying.

I also have them rev the engine pretty high to get them used to the engine noise because I have noticed a lot of people tend to freak out when the engine spools up but the car isn't moving.

So to sum up, gas before clutch and don't go crazy when the engine gets loud. :p

thanks:ugh2:

how do you post up pics??

I put them on photobucket, then link them to here when I make a post.

If you need more details, just ask.

If I were you, I would go rent a manual trans car for a day or two and practice on that. Wouldn't want to see you burn out your clutch on your brand new car. I somehow doubt our clutches are very strong.

So Im sorry, you bought from what it looks like to be a nismo 370z, and you have no idea how to drive a manual. Sigh.

He said it was a nismo in the very first post. No need to analyze the car trying to figure out what it is, it's already been done for you.

Yes I seen this,

just find the sweet spot in the clutch where it starts to grab then your fine man..

many ppl did this when the G came out...a few had to replace the clutch...


i say +1 for bitting the bullet and trying something new.

He may not know how to drive manual, but he'll still be able to smoke your K20...

Fixed.

I'm looking to buy a manual 370Z this fall (hopefully), and I'm planning on taking some stick shift classes (again), so I appreciate these helpful tips.

However, I have a question in regards to the "gas before clutch" tip.

If you depress the gas before you hit the clutch, won't the car lurch forward hard?

One of the problems I had when I was taking stick shift classes last summer was stalling from a stop to 1st gear. I had a hard time feeling when the clutch was getting a grip. To offset my lack of timing, I would always punch the gas. The good news is that I stopped stalling but the bad news is that I was always peeling out. My female instructor always giggled when I did that because she thought that it was funny that I would rather peel out rather than stall.

When I start taking stick shift classes, I'll remember to try the "gas before clutch" method.

Martin

Your ego's that big huh?

All I was implying is yes its easy to learn, but on a car of this caliper why wouldn't you learn on a toyota or a honda even a geo metro something you can destroy and not have to spends 1,000's of dollars replacing thats just my .02 but enjoy your car...

The black NISMO looks frakking tight! Not too sure about the front end though, but all in all, I car that will definitely get you noticed, no doubt.

One question though, did you buy a pair of 370Z's, one a stick and one a slush-box? :)

Damn, you're off to a good start in life, two 370Z's and you're only 18 YO. When I was 18, I was taking the green limousine, if you know what I mean.

Well I am of the opinion that it is much easier to keep someone from peeling out all over the place than it is to keep them from stalling.

Once they have learned to not stall, it simply becomes a matter of learning the car. Learning where the optimum RPM level is for a smooth, natural launch (this is not the same as a racing launch), and learning at what point the clutch grabs to engage is all that is left.

My only advice for you would be to begin reducing the number the RPM's you launch at and not popping the clutch out quickly (if you happen to pop the clutch). The magic number for RPM's is different on each vehicle and varies depending on how you are trying to launch, but in my 240sx which has 4-cylinder engine with less than 155hp (I'm not dynoing an 18 year old car :p ), I typically launch between 2200 and 2500 RPM's for daily driving, so maybe you can use this information to try out some guesstamates for you launches.

as far as time to learn,i taught my daughter in a couple of hours the basics, hill starts take longer,alot depends on your motor skills and confidence,good luck.

Yea maybe u need to be slapped every time you stalled out LOL
but yeah for first timers, the hardest part is taking off and stopping without stalling out. Play with the clutch. You will learn how to balance it out