"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
09/02/2013 at 04:16 • Filed to: None
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"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
09/02/2013 at 04:16 • Filed to: None | 1
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So on Saturday I decided to drive the rally car in a parade. I figured it would be the chance to have a little fun and give the team some exposure. What I foolishly forgot was that this meant driving a car with a high friction, heavy resistance racing clutch at walking speed. So in essence it was 90 minutes with my foot against the clutch pedal. Never again.
Yuri Correa
> Dusty Ventures
09/02/2013 at 04:32 |
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Gotta have a parade-spec clutch.
Squid
> Dusty Ventures
09/02/2013 at 04:40 |
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In other news, that is the best sponsor for a rally car ever.
Sparf
> Dusty Ventures
09/02/2013 at 06:24 |
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Didn't you put it neutral as soon as you got it rolling? That's what I do when I get stuck in traffic whilst driving my dad's Hot Rod (which has an almost-as-heavy clutch mated to the master and slave cylinders of a Volvo Amazon - it's pretty hard on your foot).
LeadfootYT
> Dusty Ventures
09/02/2013 at 08:55 |
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You have syncros in those, right?
Takuro Spirit
> Dusty Ventures
09/02/2013 at 10:25 |
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Well, THERE'S your problem.
Edit: Dammit when are they gonna fix the annotations?
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Dusty Ventures
> Takuro Spirit
09/02/2013 at 13:47 |
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What were you aiming for?
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Dusty Ventures
> Sparf
09/02/2013 at 13:51 |
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When I could, yes. Half the route was uphill, so for that bit there was a lot of on-and-off clutch, on-and-off gas. And the clutch is like a light switch, either fully on or fully off, there's no easing out the clutch, you have to pretty much just build revs and drop it. So whenever I needed to accelerate I'd have to hold down the clutch, build the revs, release the clutch for like a second then get back on it.
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Sparf
> Dusty Ventures
09/02/2013 at 14:00 |
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Ah, isn't that a twin-plate clutch? I'm still learning about various clutch types but I think I've heard that they're "on-off" with nothing in between like you just described.
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Dusty Ventures
> Sparf
09/02/2013 at 14:40 |
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I honestly don't know. I'm still learning a lot of this stuff myself
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Takuro Spirit
> Dusty Ventures
09/03/2013 at 07:16 |
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The Exedy sticker. Looks okay in the main photo.