Ditto, Im absolutely amazed at the abuse my T56 has taken though!!

Paul

 

i find that you can power shift 1-2 ans 2-3 with out much trouble but as soon as you try 3-4 with that crap shiftfork and slider keys its over

 

i never did it in this car cause $$$$$$$$ and the tranny would lock me out of geer at 6700 rpms but did it in all of my old cars.
but I just fixed tranny with billit keys and steel fork..
THINK IT WILL BE OK/?????????????

 

I know that I have never left the right foot to the floor, I just blip the gas enough to match the RPM that the motor drops between shifts. When you go to shift, take foot off the gas enough as you push in the clutch so that when you shift and let the clutch back out, the motor is matched RPM wise to the tranny.. just do the entire process real fast. You can actually pratice while driving around normally, just perform your shifts real fast, and try to get off teh gas just enough so that when the cluch is back grabbing, the motor doesn't drop any RPM from engaging the clutch. Seems to work for me anyway, made quite a few passes on the stock tranny and stock hydraulics, no problems so far.. other than the factory clutch crapping out... but that's to be expected when e.t. streets are added to the picture.

 

Good idea, kinda like a happy medium, dont floor it but keep the revs up,, will take some practice though.

 

thats exactly what happened to me.

 

Wow are the stock peices really that bad?!?!?! I knew the stock clutch was crap but I didn't know the other peices were too.

 

No problem's powershifting here. Gas pedal never leaves the floor, clutch get's a quick hit and the shifter gets a quick rip. Once i feel i have maxamized the potential of my stock GTO i'll try a couple passes lift shifting and see how it effects my times.

I don't even use the clutch when racing my other ride....just shift at 14,500 RPM, but that's a different machine.

 

powershifting you still use the clutch, the diff between power and speed shifiting is just not taking your right foot off the floor.

 

I lift on my shifts. albeit..very quickly, but I still lift

 

i shift really fast not worth breaking **** for a tenth.

 

I am with most. I lift just a little. Not worth the damage for a minimal gain.

 

Now alot of you guys said you adjust the clutch all the way to the top but wouldn't it make more sense to adjust it all the way to the bottom with hardly any clutch travel at all so you could just slam your foot to the floor and not have to worry about clutch travel at all? Kind of like a push button type setup?

 

no because then you would move the shifter before it was disengaged....breaking ****.......you want the very first part the clutch pedal moves to do the disengament part so you have time to do the COMPLETE shift before the pedal comes back up to the REengagment point at the top of the clutch pedal.

 

and this is all done between the shift light and you rev limiter at 6700 + rpm's with the gas to the floor

 

hmmmm but and adjustable master does not really change the engagement point per say but rather how much fluid is pushed but does have the side affect of moving the clutch pedal up or down which kinda decieves you into thinking the engagement point is different right? For example my currrent spec V has and engagement point close to the top of the pedal swing, If I adjust it all the way out the engagement point is at the top but I have more pedal to move before I hit the floor and start coming back, If I adjust it all the way to the floor the engagement point is still close to the top of the swing I just push less fluid and have less pedal to move. Wouldn't this make the shift quicker?


I here what you are saying pontiac,, Im just trying to picture both scenarios in my head.

 

"If Your liftin your not shiftin"

 

i just mash my trans,i don't care. i go through a rebuild of the good parts every year. my bud owns a trans shop so for me it cost little.

 

MIKE K.
if you adjust the pedal to the bottom (on an adjustable mc) yes you pedal has less travel BUT you are moving less fluid ====== you may not be disengaging all the way when you sre shifting ===== breaking **** thats why spec clutches started coming with a bigger shim so you pedal moves more fluid === complete disengagment.. just for thought the time difference when slamming the clutch pedal between a full pedal and an adjusted down pedal can not be that sugnifican especially if meaning a rebuilt tranny
just my opinion

 

My good friend powershifts on the streets all the time on his heads/cam lt1. I've seen more than 250 powershifts in the last couple of months from him and its holding up still.