What are heel & toe, double clutching, and rev matching?
Courtesy of Steve Cutchen: Grab a chair… here’s another Tome…. 🙂 >I understand how the engine & tranny are >connected, et cetera. But I really don’t understand how the *INSIDES* >of a manual transmission work. I put this first ’cause understanding how a manual tranny works might help understand how Heel and Toeing and Double Clutching work. ——— Manual Tranny 101: Since this is 101 and not the graduate class I’ve simplified things a bit. This is a description for your basic 4sp RWD manual transmission. FWDs are a bit more complicated, as are 5sp Overdrive units, but the concept is identical. There are basically 3 shafts in a manual transmission. There is the input shaft, the output shaft and the idle gearset (also on its own shaft) The input shaft sticks out the front and is splined. The clutch disc (which sits between the pressure plate and the flywheel) slips onto this spline. When the pressure plate (which is bolted to the flywheel) is released, it squeezes the clutch dis
