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Well, this is new for me anyhow.
I was at a local rally last month and ran into a guy who prep'd a bunch of STi's for the local media evals before they were available to the general public. He prep'd and maintained 22 STi's so I was really eager to hear his impression of the car both on the road and on the tracks he arranged to have them at (Mosport and Mt. Tremblant - both in Canada).
Anyway, one of the neatest things he told me was about how some automotive jouralists don't know too much about driving standard tranmission cars and he had to teach a few of them how to wind there way through the gears. He told me that they were instructed to adopt two modes of shifting. 1-3-5 for spirited driving and 2-4-6 for relaxed driving.
I have not done too much with the 1-3-5 but I have used the 2-4-6 granny-mode shifting for when the wife is in the car and it makes a huge difference in the back-seat driving department. I start in 2nd, wind it out to only about 4.5k-5k RPM and then a quick shift into 4th, and repeat into 6th. She no longer complains that my driving is "throwing her head back and forth" during acceleration. I find the STi has more and enough torque for 2nd gear starts and it's a very relaxed way to drive - the shift from 2nd to 4th takes only a slight flick of the wrist.
I'm pretty sure this is not hurting the car - can anyone confirm this?
Lars
I was at a local rally last month and ran into a guy who prep'd a bunch of STi's for the local media evals before they were available to the general public. He prep'd and maintained 22 STi's so I was really eager to hear his impression of the car both on the road and on the tracks he arranged to have them at (Mosport and Mt. Tremblant - both in Canada).
Anyway, one of the neatest things he told me was about how some automotive jouralists don't know too much about driving standard tranmission cars and he had to teach a few of them how to wind there way through the gears. He told me that they were instructed to adopt two modes of shifting. 1-3-5 for spirited driving and 2-4-6 for relaxed driving.
I have not done too much with the 1-3-5 but I have used the 2-4-6 granny-mode shifting for when the wife is in the car and it makes a huge difference in the back-seat driving department. I start in 2nd, wind it out to only about 4.5k-5k RPM and then a quick shift into 4th, and repeat into 6th. She no longer complains that my driving is "throwing her head back and forth" during acceleration. I find the STi has more and enough torque for 2nd gear starts and it's a very relaxed way to drive - the shift from 2nd to 4th takes only a slight flick of the wrist.
I'm pretty sure this is not hurting the car - can anyone confirm this?
Lars