NOR-CAL General Chat.

[JinormusJ]

Naw im just playing

No you can shift without the clutch.

#axemehowIno

I'm surprised I didn't strip any dog teeth on my way back. Couldn't feel the clutch engage and my pedal was totally numb. I was driving clutchless for a good 10 miles. Granted 9 of those were freeway miles, but still :-P

[turge]

No you can shift without the clutch.

Wouldn't that reduce the life of your tranny though?

[JinormusJ]

Yes

It puts a tremendous amount of wear on the dogteeth (the gears whose sole purpose is to engage the 1-2-3-4-5-R gears) and of course any gear and synchronizer you shift into without using the clutch

[jp_slick]

Wouldn't that reduce the life of your tranny though?

Yes it does, sometimes its either that or a tow truck tho. I've had to do that a couple times before.

[e30shmobberr]

How do you start off without a clutch? Hit the gas and jam it into first?

Turn off car. Put in 1st. Start car, drive car, shift when appropriate to not grind gears. Win. This is how I drove my s50e30 to a shop

[freeride53]

Why the hell would you shift w/o the clutch in a non-sequential box? Retarded?

[JinormusJ]

Sometimes it's manditory... Ei, when you bust a master cylinder or pop a slave cylinder.. I won't know anyone who that's happened to though

[lambo]

Richard had to do it on Top Gear during one of their special episodes (can't remember which one...)

[golde30]

Nice. What are you doing with the S50? How blown is it?

I'm entertaining going to the picnic, or maybe convincing wh33lhop to go and tagging along with him.

Probably a bent valve, haven't figured out what the issue is other than no compression in 1&2. Either way I'm putting in the s52 I have sitting in the garage. If the s50 is an easy fix, it's going into my 525it...

[e30shmobberr]

Sometimes it's manditory... Ei, when you bust a master cylinder or pop a slave cylinder.. I won't know anyone who that's happened to though

me

[bernzpeed]

I've completely parted out my bronzit 4 door if you guys need anything. I'm gonna start working on my Calypso so i need this car gone soon. So if you need any body parts, let me know.

I have one windshield for free. It's got a couple of rock chip though. But I do have a couple of windshields, windows for coupes as well.
Just pm for anything I might have it. I've parted out like 4 cars already. Coupes and 4 doors.

[JinormusJ]

I'm looking for a good OEM front roundel..? :)

[mkcman17]

i had to drive my truck to class for two weeks back in high school when the clutch cable broke. i only use the clutch half the time anyway, rev matching is really easy in that truck.

[JinormusJ]

Now.. I know driving clutchless from a stop is bad, but I wonder how rev-matching wears on the tranny. Obviously, it would wear a little more than just driving regularly.. But.. Eh..

I guess it's just one of those "the more you know" type of things..



Soooo happy there's officially nothing wrong with my e30 finally.. Now I can just drive it until it starts giving me problems again..

[ohthejosh]

I step away from r3v for the weekend and folks be gettin banned and shizz. For shame norcal for shame.

On another note, nobody seems to be able to confirm or deny the simplicity of lat emodel fog wiring to early model fog lighting. I searched for threads about it to no avail. Just need to know is it as simple at brown to brown and other wire to other wire??

LOL