i find myself going through 1-3 up to 60 then just puttin it in 5th and bypassing 4th. i only do that when im ansy or annoyed or just f'in around, but i useualy ham on it till 60 then chill.. anyone else?

 

i dont think its good for your tranny

 

sometimes I skip 3rd AND 4th

 

Don't have a manual tC but have had several Hondas and Toyotas and did it with no problems at all.

 

You know what I do the exact same thing. Ill take it up to 3rd and once im going 45, 50, 60 mph ill totally skip 4th and got straight to 5th. Well I hope its not a bad thing cuz i tend to do it a lot lately lol.

 

no way is it bad! its not doing anything wrong, you can take 3rd up to like almost 60 before redline'n... and you can cruise at 35 in 4th w/ no problems.. its totaly harmless, well, it eats more gas, but yeah, its harmless.. and yes, its a manual (like i said in the topic LOL)

 

well if you are going that fast in 3rd why not just gun it in 4th also?

 

d'oh, double post.... <moron

 

cause then id be speeding.... i said i stop at 60.. i only go 5 over.. cant afford the risk of anything more.. LOL

 

lol....im usually speeding i guess thats why i dont skip any gears

 

I do it sometimes as well. If I get on it real hard through 1st 2nd and into third, I will go to 5th as I let off.

And no it wont hurt anything. How could it?

 

Sometimes I skip 1st, 3rd, and 4th.


I used to have an old chevy with a 2 speed auto, so I'm not doing anything unprecedented.


My next car WILL be below 3000 rpm at 80mph.

 

sometimes i do.

 

I also do that.... basically the same way you described, hard acceleration in to 60 then put it in 5th for cruise.

 

I'll skip gears if accelerating hard, sure.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with block shifting, I think you all are just paranoid .

A manual transmission was made for the driver to shift the gears, well, manually. They're only in order because that makes sense - not because you always have to shift sequentially

 

^ werd'm up

 

I skip 4th on occasion.

 

As long as you arent excessively revving or lugging the car you are fine. You will burn more fuel this way though since you will spend more time in the lower gears. I just use all 5 gears

 

If your flooring it, why skip 4th. You can go hard on 4th as well. Why not go from 60 to 80 or above on 4th before going on 5th. 5th takes too long to reach 80.

 

Well, let's say you need extra acceleration when, for example, merging onto a highway. So you hit maybe 60 in 3rd, but plan to basically just drive at 60. In this case, you might as well just skip 4th and go straight to 5th, since no further acceleration is required.