please dont laugh...i have a question

Forrest

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.