Found another broken retainer tonight
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Originally Posted by Billman250,Jul 18 2006, 07:08 PM
True...
The best advice when driving agressively is don't deathgrip the shifter. Take the time to let it go where it's supposed to. If you hold it tight, you'll have no feel for it and easily pull a 3-2 mis-shift.
The best advice when driving agressively is don't deathgrip the shifter. Take the time to let it go where it's supposed to. If you hold it tight, you'll have no feel for it and easily pull a 3-2 mis-shift.
Kind of like "target panic" for a shooter. Damn hard to train yourself out of, because the more you think about it the more it happens.
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From: Dry Branch
Originally Posted by Billman250,Jul 18 2006, 09:08 PM
True...
The best advice when driving agressively is don't deathgrip the shifter. Take the time to let it go where it's supposed to. If you hold it tight, you'll have no feel for it and easily pull a 3-2 mis-shift.
The best advice when driving agressively is don't deathgrip the shifter. Take the time to let it go where it's supposed to. If you hold it tight, you'll have no feel for it and easily pull a 3-2 mis-shift.
Originally Posted by mikegarrison,Jul 18 2006, 09:25 PM
I was going from 4->5 and hit 3 instead. I do have a tendency to upshift too fast. I keep trying to train it out of myself, but when the adreneline is flowing....
Kind of like "target panic" for a shooter. Damn hard to train yourself out of, because the more you think about it the more it happens.
Kind of like "target panic" for a shooter. Damn hard to train yourself out of, because the more you think about it the more it happens.
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From: Erock's my boat!
Originally Posted by Billman250,Jul 17 2006, 09:59 PM
I'm curious if the retainers can split without an over rev.
i ride the limiter for 2-3 seconds at a time, 3 times/places per lap, for 150 laps, twice a month.
my '04 has 60K on it....and it's been supercharged for 2 years....should i be worried?
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Billman,
Thanks for keeping us updated on the retainer issue. After reading this therad and looking at the pics, I decided to pull my cam cover last Saturday. Since I had an autox coming up on Sunday, I thought I better be safe than sorry.
Fortunately, all the reatiners looked good and there is what appears to be enough valve stem poking up, though it's actually hard to tell with the camshaft on it. I wasn't going to pull the camshaft even if I found something that was suspect, I'd let the dealer do it just to be sure.
So 5 years, 93,000 miles, 4yrs worth of autocrosses later, they seem (knocking on wood) okay.
BTW, damn did the whole area around the camshaft assembly look clean! Guess that's a testament to synthetic oil and changes every 3,000 mi.
Warren
Thanks for keeping us updated on the retainer issue. After reading this therad and looking at the pics, I decided to pull my cam cover last Saturday. Since I had an autox coming up on Sunday, I thought I better be safe than sorry.
Fortunately, all the reatiners looked good and there is what appears to be enough valve stem poking up, though it's actually hard to tell with the camshaft on it. I wasn't going to pull the camshaft even if I found something that was suspect, I'd let the dealer do it just to be sure.
So 5 years, 93,000 miles, 4yrs worth of autocrosses later, they seem (knocking on wood) okay.
BTW, damn did the whole area around the camshaft assembly look clean! Guess that's a testament to synthetic oil and changes every 3,000 mi.
Warren