I have a new '17 3.5 6 speed manual that is just past the break in period.
It has one annoying drive-ability issue with rev matching downshifts at low RPMs. If I'm in 2nd rolling along at a crawl under 2k RPMs like a left turn across traffic type situation and I want to be in first to squirt across quickly - blipping the throttle to match revs has almost no effect on RPMs as if the flywheel was 200lbs and the motor needed to spin it up. It makes it hard to smoothly drop a gear without waiting for what seems like eons. I may as well have come to a stop.
I'd write it off as just that - heavy flywheel - and start shopping the Fidanza catalog for a lightweight one except when I do it from 4th to 3rd or 3rd to 2nd with some > 2k RPMs it zings like I expect it to. It is also disproportionate to the input at lower RPMs and it does not have the typical "bogginess" that accompanies a flywheel spin-up. It's just kind of dead, then if you hold it there a while it gets around to revving. So - I wonder if it's not something in the fly-by tuning and a little CPU or pedal hacking might fix it?
First - is it just me that notices this and I should complain to the dealer (haha like that ever got anyone anywhere) or is that normal behavior for the 3.5 manual... and if so... does a solution already exist my google-fu hasn't discovered yet?
*disclaimer* I know it's not a sports car
It has one annoying drive-ability issue with rev matching downshifts at low RPMs. If I'm in 2nd rolling along at a crawl under 2k RPMs like a left turn across traffic type situation and I want to be in first to squirt across quickly - blipping the throttle to match revs has almost no effect on RPMs as if the flywheel was 200lbs and the motor needed to spin it up. It makes it hard to smoothly drop a gear without waiting for what seems like eons. I may as well have come to a stop.
I'd write it off as just that - heavy flywheel - and start shopping the Fidanza catalog for a lightweight one except when I do it from 4th to 3rd or 3rd to 2nd with some > 2k RPMs it zings like I expect it to. It is also disproportionate to the input at lower RPMs and it does not have the typical "bogginess" that accompanies a flywheel spin-up. It's just kind of dead, then if you hold it there a while it gets around to revving. So - I wonder if it's not something in the fly-by tuning and a little CPU or pedal hacking might fix it?
First - is it just me that notices this and I should complain to the dealer (haha like that ever got anyone anywhere) or is that normal behavior for the 3.5 manual... and if so... does a solution already exist my google-fu hasn't discovered yet?
*disclaimer* I know it's not a sports car
