Downshifting with paddle shifters while in auto

[fishinrich]

Didn't realize you could do this.

Sounds awesome pulling up to a red light tapping it down a few gears.

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[Q6543]

It’d be cool if we could have it like the DCT.

those you can pull both paddles and it goes neutral and you can free rev on the fly!

 

[Gregs24]

It’d be cool if we could have it like the DCT.

those you can pull both paddles and it goes neutral and you can free rev on the fly!

You would need a completely different transmission control for that - like the rotary one Ford use.

 

[smurfslayer]

Sport mode does a pretty credible job downshifting for you; if you stop a bit more quickly than just dawdling, she will do the rev match for you and it sounds pretty good as well.

 

[Mustang8]

Sport mode does a pretty credible job downshifting for you; if you stop a bit more quickly than just dawdling, she will do the rev match for you and it sounds pretty good as well.

In track mode the downshifts when slowing down are a lot more aggressive

 

[jboogie1289]

In track mode the downshifts when slowing down are a lot more aggressive

YES INDEED they are and some pops to go with that!!! ‍‍‍

 

[roket]

YES INDEED they are and some pops to go with that!!! ‍‍‍

if you want some of the most consistent and loudest pops, vary between light throttle and no throttle between 2900 and 3300 rpm. remember the put the exhaust to track mode

 

[brian5814]

The rev matching sounds great when you’re downshifting with a six speed manual.

 

[jboogie1289]

if you want some of the most consistent and loudest pops, vary between light throttle and no throttle between 2900 and 3300 rpm. remember the put the exhaust to track mode

Yessir!!! And I too have found that out and feather the pedal sometimes to get consecutive pops!!!!! And my Custom Mode is set up to run Track Exhaust 100%!

 

[young at heart]

In track mode the downshifts when slowing down are a lot more aggressive

You ain’t kidding about that!

Especially while going downhill.

 

[Notavette]

I’ve got 6 more weeks according to PT Phil before I can get mine back on the road so I have to live vicariously through the posts of the southern owners. Stupid groundhog! RIDE ON BROTHERS

 

[jshenry1963]

I actually use them when pulling up into my garage.
My driveway is asphalt to the garage, but it is 15 degree incline in one spot about 7 degree going up then to the right into the garage, the GT BARELY crosses the threshold where it goes from asphalt to concrete garage, clearance, ugh, lol.
But going up the hill, if i let it downshift to 1st in the last bit, it is kind of a kathunk, so, I've learned to downshift before that last bit of slow approach. I find use in other places to where I know I'm going to need or want to go down.
Finding more to get psyched about every day on this thing, and then of course a bunch of nits, but, heck, all it takes is one throttle push to forget any nits

 

[LTC HUGH]

The rev matching sounds great when you’re downshifting with a six speed manual.

It's a hole second slower

 

[Neggytive]

I use the paddles do downshift if I am in the mood but never aggressively

Getting from 10 to 7 while coasting is easy enough, down to 5 after that while braking is OK, it gets real fussy going into second or first gear when you are rolling at anything over a few MPH

I'm more likely to put it in M and hold 1st gear then slip it up into D than I am to downshift though.

It is hard to load up the exhaust with unburned fuel and get a pop pop pop out of it, and it really isn't good for mufflers. I have seen them after the gasoline lights off in them and expands them like you put a couple of 1/4 sticks in there.

Propane injection is nice for shooting flames out the back, in the bad old days we would put a spark plug in a chrome tip, hook it up to a coil, put a switch on the dashboard to pulse the coil and make it spark, while pulling the manual choke out to make the exhaust "fat" (rich) while rolling in Neutral and giving it some gas.... we could see the reflection of the flames on storefront windows at night as we rolled thru downtown....

 

[LaMakina2]

I also have an H pipe installed on my active exhaust PP and man it sounds sick downshifting with pops.

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