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Originally posted by MYDC5R View PostHmmm.. Suppose... I don't do that but that's me, we all drive differently. I always assumed it was better as your gearing down helping you slow down better but also keeping good optimal speed and revs"?
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Originally posted by Flippit View PostWhats wrong with that, a lot of people do that, if you can heel toe and rev match into 2nd theres no problem missing third.
Originally posted by iversonruls View Postur time to beat is 13.6 without lsd which i did in 2010 =D
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although heel and toeing is a basic manoeuvre, i find that its easy to forget to time it right when you're shifting through two gears at once. i always aim to downshift the moment the RPMs drop enough so that when i match it for the next gear it doesnt over rev. so ideally, you want to be in the lower gear as early as you can to take advantage of engine braking which helps ALOT.eckoflyte
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Originally posted by MYDC5R View PostHmmm.. Suppose... I don't do that but that's me, we all drive differently. I always assumed it was better as your gearing down helping you slow down better but also keeping good optimal speed and revs"?
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Originally posted by stevan View Posti read a study once that suggested that a lot of people uneccessarily extend the braking zone by changing down through every gear and it was often better to skip a gear in order to make the braking more efficient and transfer the weight more gradually.eckoflyte
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I've always been quite afond of skipping through gears on the downshift. In Alex's example of the WP back straight where you change straight down from 4th gear to 2nd gear where you are not required to blip the throttle through each gear. There is a slight advantage here as every driver loses a fraction of brake pressure when blipping the throttle. IMO a 4-2 down shift is reasonable, however an onboard video of an S2000 in Canada/ US comes to mind where he is down shifting from 6-2 in one go which I've always thought was a bit ridiculous. It's quite hard to match the revs on such a big downshift.
This said I've been downshifting through all the gears lately, because I love the sound of blipping the throttle. You gotta look and sound cool right?
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I found that setting the car up to oversteer will be better suited to DC5R. 30PSI hot on street tyres too low, the side wall are flexing.
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Originally posted by andrew84tran View Posti can understand the reasoning behind that. only problem ive noticed is that if you hang around too long in 4th waiting for the RPMs to drop far enough before you can match it for 2nd gear, you would've wasted the earlier advantage of engine braking in 3rd at a higher RPM range. I would think if you were proficient in downshifting smoothly and quickly through the gears (instead of skipping) it would net better stopping results.
Originally posted by Flippit View Posti agree, i feel the car pulls up better when heel-toeing through all the gears instead of skipping a gear!
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Another thing I'd like to highlight is the DC5's stock cooling! only 2 of the sessions I hit 125 deg C, just 1-2 cool down laps with the heater on and a minute or two on idle in the pits, the oil temp dropped from 125 on the track right back down to the 95 deg C mark once in the pits. Was planning on upgrading the cooling aspect of the car with a Koyo Radiator, Mugen Thermostat and a Greddy Oil Cooler. Will have these plans on hold until the final trackday of 2012, Circuit Club December. I'll see how the temps are on that day and if need be, an early Xmas present for the car with the parts mentioned above.
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