Okay , i hate my 1st gear its almost worthless... it redlines so fast, .. Will hurt my t/a shifting from 2 to 4th then 5th?.. in that order ? or should i go thru each gear ? ..

I have been driving like this for a while , but i dont know if it could hurt it ...

 

i usaly shift 2-4 when driving around town, but when i race i go 1-2-3-4-5

 

No, won't hurt anything, except maybe the clutch, if you slip it too much starting out in 2nd.

 

my friend has a beater 5 speed car and he does the 2 to 5 sometimes! he's a fruit cake :lala:

his car is so beat up it sometimes grinds gears when he tries to race..

 

I was told once by somone who used to race the old muncie rocke crushers with reverse removed etc.. that the synchros in those trannies were MADE to go from 1-2-3-4. skipping a gear can wear out the synchros REAL quick he said,

I asked him about NEW trannies he said that it didnt matter on those, just the real old ones with the old racing synchros.

I dont know if this helps but its what I've been led to beleive. If you ask me, going from 1-2 is the same as going from 2-4. or 3-5. or 1-5. or whatever. why would your tranny care what gear your going to from where??

i mean if your downshifting somtimes you go from 5th to 2nd right? like when you brake hard and wana put it back into gear?

 

It redlines too fast? Then, why dont you go from 1-3-5. Take 1st gear to about 3 or 3 and a half, and then that should be enought o go into 5th too. I dunno.