Mechanical over-revving

[Adam]

Originally Posted by ntmatter

Here's a technique that I picked up when I was running my Viper at the track a lot - the Dodge gearbox was definitely suseptible to a 3-2 mis-shift:

Notice when shifting from 1st to 2nd to 3rd that your hand is held much like you're holding a soda can, with the top of your wrist pointing to the passenger window. When shifting from 3-4, rotate your wrist counter-clockwise about 90 degrees, so that your wrist is now positioned as it would be on a bike's handlebar. Rotating your wrist like this will make it nearly impossible to go from 3-2. Practice this in your street driving so it's second nature, so that if you're under the stress of hard driving and upshifts you don't yank the shifter towards yourself and grenade the motor.

A

Thankyou very much for the advice. I've been using the technique you mentioned by keeping my palm over the top of the shifter when shifting 3-4 and it is working much better. I think I was unconsciously putting my hand to the side of the shifter from time to time which resulted in the mis-shifts. Now I'm more aware of my hand position...particulary when shifting from 3rd to 4th. I'm glad I became aware of this before I blew my motor!