Originally Posted by skabone69
I don't understand why you would want to avoid using the clutch. I've know about the technique for a while but I've never understood the need to shift without using the clutch. what performance advantage is there? to my knoweldge there is nothing you will gain, so what is the point???? besides being lazy.
If done correctly, the shifts ARE much quicker. But this is not a race car and not very well designed for this type of use. Even motorcycles which ARE designed for that purpose... will still wear out much faster without using a clutch. I wore out he tranny on my last motorcyle doing this repeatedly at he racetrack at 30,000 miles... which is equivalent to around 90000 miles in a car.