Miata Mailing List: November 1998, Message #152

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At 11/13/98 03:55 PM , Richard J. Teasdale wrote:

>Now try this.  

Cute.  I love it.

One question, though....  You said:

>1- Get in your car on a straight, low-traffic highway 
>2- Start out from a dead stop in first gear  
>3- Once the clutch is out, depress the accelerator ALL THE WAY!  
>4- Don't change anything until you hit 6500 RPM or so  
>5- Quickly depress the clutch and shift to second gear
>6- Quickly release the clutch
>7- Depress the accelerator ALL THE WAY!

And repeated steps 3 through 7 for the gears.  However, you never said to
back off the accelerator while shifting, only after shifting to depress it
all the way.  If you never released the gas, you can't push it any further.
<picky, picky, picky :-)>


Paul
Merrimack, NH
Home of the 99 "Silver Screamer"
Granite State Miata Club

"I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol."