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--- Quote from: $trinick on May 11, 2014, 10:23:34 PM ---You'd probably just stall. Either that or you'd forget your clutch -- the engine would be trying REALLY hard to spin it and it just wouldn't be having any of that due to the immense load. Could prob just burn out your clutch.
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Yeah, I was loving around with my truck, which is a stick, and i tried starting out in 5th gear, and i could smell the clutch getting real hot.
XR-7:
--- Quote from: Pie Crust on May 11, 2014, 10:20:14 PM ---I began wondering. If you overwork your engine, you will blow it. What would happen if you were to underwork your engine? As in, put 5th shift when the car is stopped and floor it.
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--- Quote from: Night Fox on May 11, 2014, 10:51:25 PM ---in forza horizon at least, not sure about the others, if you stick it in the top gear while stopped and then try to go, it'll drive fine, just take forever to speed up
and I do that for fun sometimes because it makes the car sound really cool imo
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Pretty sure essentially this. I was talking to my dad about it about a month ago in his stick shift Versa. He decided to show me and since there weren't cars around, he went very slow and shifted to fifth. The car just inched along and slowly gained speed.
I'm guessing that it would be a bad idea in a high output car though. My dad's car has 107hp iirc but I would think that a car with, say, 550hp would just try to put too much power into the available gear which would be bad for the transmission. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Georges:
I would think XR is right.
Teneksi:
The only manual transmission vehicle I've used in real life was a three cylinder Geo Metro.
If you were in any gear too early it'd just be like "well forget it" and stall immediately
$trinick:
It depends how you did it. If you dropped it into fifth from neutral while flooring it, you'd likely spin the clutch.
Imagine it like this: press your right fist against your left palm. Twist your right fist. When you have little to no tension (load) on your left hand, it spins easily with your right fist. If you tighten up your left hand so that it won't spin (high load / high gear), your right fist will spin independently of your left hand. Granted, in a car the clutch is much grippier than your palm print and knuckles, but it's the same basic concept.
If you accelerated a bit properly then switched to a high gear and floored it, you'd likely be okay because your car is already moving so your clutch would have an easier time moving your car forward even more. You'd just accelerate really slowly.