Roehl Driver Check In

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A maverick driver in his automatic asked me in Chicago how my left leg felt? I asked him what he meant. He then threw a little temper tantrum after I told him I float and when sitting still I sit in neutral, instead of in gear with the clutch to the floor.

They say a truck out of gear is a truck out of control, I don't believe that for a second unless your going down hill. That's just me though

Ethan

 

I do the same thing I leave it out of gear till I'm ready to roll got to love those auto shifters. I would much rather have my 10 spd I know we're I'm at and what gear I want to be I guess it more of a Mental thing.


Steven

 

It is. I drove an auto, one of the blue century's with roehl. It was OK but I'm happy to shift my own gears after it left me on neutral in an intersection. No thanks.

Ethan

 

Oh wow that would suck thinking ur ready to go and it says not today haha I didn't know they automatically put you in neutral

Steven

 

It doesn't. It leaves you in 2nd gear. Then you start rolling, I was half way through the intersection when I just went to neutral for no reason.

Ethan

 

Oh wow that's crazy

 

Yeah it sucked.

Ethan

 

Unless I am mistaken, the prostars seem to come stock with a certain amount of throttle lag. When I was with my trainer, he had just got his throttle tuned to remove the lag and I didn't have any problems with double clutching. When I got my own prostar, I experienced the lag. I wrote it up to get tuned while on home time. I will report back to see if it had any impact (if they deign to address the report).

Add in a delay between when you take your foot off the rattle and when you push in the clutch the first time and tell me if it fixes the double clutch grinding. That helped it for me. Keeping my clutch foot on the floor until *after* i took my foot off the throttle helped. Had me feeling like I was performing the shift with only one effective foot...

 

My trainer, who has been flatbedding since the late 1970's, always double clutches, so he made me do it too, all the way through training (which was in Feb/Mar 2012). It took a while to make it smooth; in fact it took a couple more months after training to have enough practice to get it right in my 2012 International ProStar. Like Truman says above, the biggest "ah-ha" moment came for me sometime this summer when I decided to take my foot off the accelerator and let the engine settle for a second before shifting. Also, when downshifting with a heavy load uphill, I shift from 10th to 9th at 1150 rpm and from 9th to 8th or 8th to 7th at 1200 rpm. With the slightest blip on the accelerator while in neutral, those seem to be the optimal engine speeds at which to shift.

I have experimented a little with floating, mostly when I'm stuck in slow Chicago traffic playing between gears 4-5-6-7. I have found it can be done at 800 and 1200rpm but in regular situations I actually prefer double clutching.

 

I used to double clutch and was against floating till I learned how to do it smoothly. I will say you have less room for error when floating vs double clutching.

Ethan