Re: Di Matteo shifting

[Mark Denovich <mark@domain.elided>]

Pottree@domain.elided wrote:
> You want to do something nice for the transmission, take it out for a gelato. 
>  You want to drive, listen to Fred.  Subtext: you do not need to baby an Alfa 
> and if you do eventually it will be insulted and give up on you.  I do not 
> mean be stupid and abusive (save that for other marques) but I am with Fred 
> on this: double declutching has been an  unnecessary and an antique notion on 
> road cars (Alfas) for 40 years.
Are you saying that with good synchros double-declutching is 
unnecessary?  I'll buy that.   But I've found no other reliable 
technique to get my transmission to shift without grinding.

Of course, I believe my transmission is on it's original synchros at 
118k miles and counting.  I bought my car a few thousand miles ago, and 
have records going back to the first owner (starting around 50k miles) 
and see no record of transmission work.   So they are definately on the 
to-do list for this winter.   Till then I'll double-clutch.

	--Mark
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