K24 Fit ride along.wmv - YouTube

Made this video yesterday as I headed up to a local meet.

 

Damn sounds great!!!! Is this in a gd ? Man I want this swap in my ge! Can't wait to try !

 

hella nice man sounds awesome

 

It sounds so good! Love the sound of it when shifting gears

 

sounds sick man. good job. so tempting to go k....must resist.

 

The whole video seems like one big street if your driver side window wasn't in the way. Lol. Super clean and sounds super mean. I want a Kswap even more now.

 

^^ when I was wathing the video I thought it looked really trippy to watch with the refection of the road in my car, lol. Thanks everyone for the kind words

 

I am jealous of your gearing.

Which trans is that again? Final?

 

Needs moar hooning.

Car sounds AWESOME!

 

07 Si trans, 4.764 Final

 

Good stuff, sounds nice, super short gears. Looks like a lot of fun.

I do suggest learning how to rev-match when downshifting though. Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine.

 

^^ I dont remember exactly but im short shifting at like 4-5K to keep the sound of the car down. as for rev-matching, this is my first manual ever. So just give me time lol

 

Gotcha, it's definitely a more advanced technique. You just blip the throttle when downshifting (ie.. going from 4th to 3rd) to match the revs of the previous gear instead of just letting out on the clutch. It takes a fair ammount of practice to get right.

Extends the life of your clutch/flywheel, and is the technically correct way to downshift. Sadly, few people actually do it.

Rev matching - downshifting

 

Cool vid! The car sounds great & looks like a great drive... I'm now having dreams of a K swap....

 

You should definitely make more videos soon! i like these go pro videos. Even if its just a ride to the store i would watch this lol. A tip for revmatching is pay attention to the rpm's at speed at each gear, for example, i know that at 20mph in second gear my car gd3 is at 2.5k rpm, so when im in third gear and slowing down, i press the clutch, move the shifter to second gear but when my shifter passes the neutral area, i give the gas pedal a little kick and when i see the rpms hit 2500 i let go of the clutch and bingo.

 

Didn't see any shifting faux-pas to worry about, especially for your first manual car.

You'll pick up some tricks along the way MN