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Pretty awesome commercial actually.

 

Haha, thats pretty good

 

I learned to drive stick in a Subaru

 

I spent 5 minutes in a s2k, 10 minutes in a mini cooper and then i drove my subbie home from the dealership, lol

 

I had only driven stick once in my dad's old Toyota flatbed when I bought my 2.5i. Drove that **** home through the Santa Cruz mountains..

 

I spent 5 min in a Brighton and was sold already. Yes just a Brighton...

 

I learned in one of these:




I am teaching my girlfriend to drive a stick as she just bought one. She is having a tough time at it. Starts the lesson out fine stalls or bucks a couple times than can not drive at all she gets so frustrated.

 

Taught my friend how to drive stick in my WRX the other day lol. She complained that the pedal was too stiff hahaha.

 

The first wrx i test drove was a 5mt 07 TR in san jose @ kowloon auto. Long *** clutch.
First stick i ever drove. Took it out for a test drive and im pretty sure that car needs a new clutch now lol.

A month later i bought a wrx limited 4EAT! Lol

 

i learned on my WRX, now all other clutch pedal feels like marshmallows

 

Funny thing, built to last but the 2.5 NA has head gasket issues not transmission

 

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Nice, '49 GMC here, 3 on the tree. I had to dis-assemble an EA71 and a 4spd and learn about the parts and what they did before I got to try though.

That's pretty normal with the learning. I have taught loads of people to drive manual and when this happens, what I do is have them go somewhere like a parking lot (no stress of people behind you waiting to go) and do this: hold revs at around or greater-than ~2krpm, and slowly let the clutch out to take off instead of trying to control the throttle on take off. Just hold revs steady (this is a good exercise anyway), have her gently lift the clutch pedal and tell you when the engagement point is reached.

If she has trouble holding the revs where intended, this is probably what is giving her trouble. A great exercise for that is to hold RPM in 500 rpm increments, meaning, 2500, then 3500, then 3000, etc. Getting control of this will help you become a rev-matching genius.

Bucking is simply letting the clutch out too fast with not enough throttle + FWD. The opposite end of this is slipping the clutch. It's all about getting the engagement point down. Try to get out of the bucking stage ASAP though as that is really hard on everything, where slipping is only hard on the clutch.

A Justy is remarkably easy to drive, but they can also be twitchy in cases like this, and the throttle is very sensitive. When I drive my Justy longer distances, my ankle gets sore from holding my foot off of the accelerator (otherwise I find myself happily cruising along @70-80mph which is too fast for a 4WD Justy).

Also, one of the very best things would be to have her drive it around a bit solo because people are always stressed out when someone they respect is trying to teach. Doesn't matter how nice you are, the real learning happens once she is by herself. Hope that came out right.

 

Learned stick in a friends old jeep wrangler. Had it down in 5 minutes. Took 30 minutes to finally get the WRX drivable outside of a parking lot and days to work out all the kinks. Going from a clutch that doesnt really give a damn where you release it to one that is super sensitive is quite a change.

 

I learned by stealing the truck after 8 years of watching my dad drive. Only stalled once, and after that worked it like a champ until I got caught.