When in (D) Drive would i hurt the Tranz if i switch it to D3 or 2 when is it good
to use them, does anyone know any side tricks to this, let me know, thanks!

 

i do it with my auto but im not to worried about it because im gunna be getting a new motor and tranny soon so i dontn worry too much....i downshift when i want to pull awa from my friend and his 89 hatch...ive explored different way like letting off the gas and such....normaly i just drop it to 2 or d3 and put it to it....it allows you to shift at higher rpm...ive done my share of N drops aswell...my tranny is keeping up with the abuse

 

my buddy does it all the time for passing and **** if he wants to take off. 03 civic coupe lx

we will see how it holds up thoug h i guess.

 

i did that with my other civic but i had a stock exhaust on it and it just created a lot of back pressure and didnt do **** for me, but with the exhaust it helped.

 

i wouldn't recommend doing it at all. a friend did that a lot but stopped after he had to replace his tranny.

 

hmmm... It shouldnt be bad as long as you dont go from park and throw it into gear. I dont think it will really help you with acceleration much... when you stomp it, it actually downshifts to get you power. Plus with manually doing it you are more likely to redline since there is a slight delay when doing it manually.

 

Yo man, back in the day when I rocked the 88 Camry, I shifted the auto all the time. It had 180K miles on it and the transmission was perfect according to Midas. I figured I was just doing what the car was going to do anyway, just at a little higher RPMS................some ****** at Toyota made the damn thing shift at 2500 RPM all the time. They've advanced a bit, bless them.

 

my friends eclipse couldnt handle it. he had to get whole new tranny. cost him well over a grand to get that **** together again. i told him if shifts that new tranny like that, than im goin to consider him a dumb***...... as of tha last time i seen him, he is now officially a dumb***!

 

what do you guys think about putting the car into N at long stops at lights (A/T)? and shifting to d3 when it's neighborhood driving/stop and go driving?

 

its definetly not good to shift 1...2...D3...D4 on a consistent basis. I've seen at least three trannys go by doing it, but if you down shift once in a while you should be fine