my buddy has a dodge caliber, he has a slap shift on it, i never heard of it before but all he does is slap it and it shifts like a manual which means i can control the rpm's. i really want this seeing i never drove a manual before and im not really tryin to embarass myself or buy 20 clutches to learn. sooo, is there a way to install a slap shift into my 97 civic hatch? what would i all need, what would be the round and about price?? thanks!

 

I think it's called triptronic (thanks kev. lol) shifting. I've heard of someone installing one before.

But seriously... the first time I drove a stick was the day i got my del Sol. I drove it 15 miles home start and stop and I stalled twice. It's not hard and you're not going to burn up your clutch learning unless you're a complete retard.

 

Yeah i rather have a straight manual, and thats gotta be easier than installing a "slap shift"

 

lol you wont even go thru one clutch trying to learn. It takes a good month to really get it down. But you will be able to get from point a to b within the first couple of days. Honestly just stick with the stick. My buddy put a triptronic in his accord. It was tight but not worth it imo, would rather just have a stick.

 

dito... get a real manual... after you get taking off in 1st your 3/4way learning to drive a stick... getting going is the hardest part of a stick and after you shift into 2nd gear the rest is a breeze and almost fail proof
and to take off on a incline simply use your Ebrake to keep the car from rolling backwards into someone else! you dont fully crank the Ebrake just enough to hold it from rolling back, then when you take off you can still pull forwards just fine and once you get crawling just take the ebrake off and keep going.

not to hard to learn....

 

Plus with the Tiptronic, you can't control when it's in gear or not. Just stick with a manual trans, it's not hard... I had it down in a day, and I was only twelve years old when I learned!

 

This is a REQUIREMENT in the UK, you will FAIL your driving test if you don't use the e-brake on an incline.

Personally I do not need to do this when starting from a stop on an incline, but some people do, esp newbs.

 

^ seriously? thats weird.....i do it sometimes when i want to rev the engine up and take off from a stoplight or something

 

i dont do it all the time... just when theres that idiot behind me that gets right on my @ss. i swear sometimes i wanna roll back and hit em and blame them.... but then i would just have more work before i paint my car.LOL

 

I've driven a few rental vehicles that have a tiptronic style shifter, and they suck IMO. Doesn't come remotely close to enabling you to control the engine speed like a manual does. Civics have one of the easiest manual transmissions I've ever driven. It's what makes a potentially slow car (like mine) a bit more fun to drive.

Manual = <insert favorite beer here, unless it's Zima, or less than 5%>
Tiptronic = MGD 64