looking for a SC
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Burning Brakes
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pl,
You should post a "wanted" ad on the NNJR PCA site. Also, put the word out with your mechanic, if you have a mechanic you will use yet. Gene at Autohaus or Will at Precision are good places to start...tell them what you are looking for, and they may know a customer selling. That's how I found my SC.
Not easy to drive a Porsche tranny well, but the good news is that once you learn on it, you can drive anything else!
You should post a "wanted" ad on the NNJR PCA site. Also, put the word out with your mechanic, if you have a mechanic you will use yet. Gene at Autohaus or Will at Precision are good places to start...tell them what you are looking for, and they may know a customer selling. That's how I found my SC.
Not easy to drive a Porsche tranny well, but the good news is that once you learn on it, you can drive anything else!
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I've been thinking about it more over the past week... Definitely feel free to learn on an SC. After that, ALL clutches are easy and really light weight! In fact, I rememebr driving my friends VW Golf back in high school the summer I learned on the SC.... I almost pushed the clutch through the floor it was so light! My GT3 clutch is the only clutch since that reminds me of the SC... I really miss that car...
Oh - it took me an afternoon to learn in a school parking lot. The next (and tougher) phase was to sit on a hill at a stop sign with cars behind me and merge onto a busy road. They trick was to use the emergency brake and focus on the cluth/accelerator action... Over time, I finally weened myself off of the e-brake...
Good luck!
-B
Oh - it took me an afternoon to learn in a school parking lot. The next (and tougher) phase was to sit on a hill at a stop sign with cars behind me and merge onto a busy road. They trick was to use the emergency brake and focus on the cluth/accelerator action... Over time, I finally weened myself off of the e-brake...
Good luck!
-B
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I learned to drive in a manual trans car and 99% of my driving since has been stick (I'm not very skilled driving an automatic trans
).
Having had a beater V-Dub van back in grad school, the 915 felt pretty much like the van's shift action felt (my mechanic gave me a frown when I casually mentioned that
), but it's not at all difficult to learn - just be gentle (they're a lot more bucks to fix than a VW trans!) until your muscle memory takes over and you wont even think about it any longer.
What I really did not like about the SC as compared to the VW was the decel valve that kept revs from dropping as quickly as I like when off throttle. Some owners disable it and are able to shift cleaner, smoother and much more enjoyably (not smog legally, however).
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Having had a beater V-Dub van back in grad school, the 915 felt pretty much like the van's shift action felt (my mechanic gave me a frown when I casually mentioned that
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What I really did not like about the SC as compared to the VW was the decel valve that kept revs from dropping as quickly as I like when off throttle. Some owners disable it and are able to shift cleaner, smoother and much more enjoyably (not smog legally, however).
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Team Owner
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I spend all my time in my SC which has a rather heavy clutch relatively speaking. Once after a weeks vacation I hoped in my Caravan to go back to work. As i aproached the roundabout I instinctively went to dip that heavy clutch. Of course I caught the brake with my left foot and fired my face into the steering wheel as I was leaning forward to look up the street, as my van came to an instant stop. I don't know whch was worse, the throbing face or the embarasment, lucky for me ( and them ) there was no one behind me ... oh the humanity ..