PDK test drive for a manual guy
#16
04-21-2015, 05:58 PM
That is why this forum is so great. You get perspectives and opinions from so many different points of view. You make your own decisions but it's great to hear the input.
Definitely sticking with PDK on my order but every day I have second thoughts.
The two big decisions on my car were going Lava Orange (I generally prefer to fly under the "radar"), and PDK.
There are a couple turns at my track that I know PDK will be so much better than my brain and my feet.
Definitely sticking with PDK on my order but every day I have second thoughts.
The two big decisions on my car were going Lava Orange (I generally prefer to fly under the "radar"), and PDK.
There are a couple turns at my track that I know PDK will be so much better than my brain and my feet.
#17
04-22-2015, 08:30 AM
Check out this vid:
https://youtu.be/mj1Vk7SE-TI
The wet multi-plate clutches are so high tech.
No way I could be happy with a standard clutch after seeing that.
No clutch dust and much longer service life.
I do miss shifting though.
https://youtu.be/mj1Vk7SE-TI
The wet multi-plate clutches are so high tech.
No way I could be happy with a standard clutch after seeing that.
No clutch dust and much longer service life.
I do miss shifting though.
#19
04-27-2015, 12:22 PM
From learning to drive on a manual with my dad and throwing around 1976 vw bug with four glorious gears in high school, I have loved driving a manual. And after 18 years of buying nothing but manual cars, I fell in love with the pdk during atest drive. I am 10 months into only having 2 pedals and while a small part of me misses having a manual every couple weeks or so, I can't image having anything but the pdk for my daily driver.
It is really amazing how engaging it can be, albeit different than a manual. Its funny, it takes me more concentration than the manual ever did. With a manual coming into a corner hot, I would think, I need 2nd ,and my leg and arm would react with muscle memory alone and no thought. With the pdk, its, I need 2nd, all right, I am in 4th, that’s two fast pulls, then the glorious sound of the down shifts and its hard in and hard out smooth as can be.
I sometimes can’t decide if the PDK is so good that it makes a manual guy not miss a manual, or if this manual guy was a poser for 18 years and finely showed his true colors.
It is really amazing how engaging it can be, albeit different than a manual. Its funny, it takes me more concentration than the manual ever did. With a manual coming into a corner hot, I would think, I need 2nd ,and my leg and arm would react with muscle memory alone and no thought. With the pdk, its, I need 2nd, all right, I am in 4th, that’s two fast pulls, then the glorious sound of the down shifts and its hard in and hard out smooth as can be.
I sometimes can’t decide if the PDK is so good that it makes a manual guy not miss a manual, or if this manual guy was a poser for 18 years and finely showed his true colors.
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