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Originally Posted by alamantia
Clutch only wears when pressure is applied to the disc while the disc is rotating at a different RPM than the flywheel. If you tap the gas to raise the engines RPM prior to downshifting you can almost match the RPM of the engine to the disc when you let the clutch back out there will be no slippage. Now if your a rookie and just jamb it in a lower gear and let the clutch out without raising the engine RPM (which i serioulsy doubt anyone on this site is too stupid to do) then you have wear.
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I'm not calling anyone a rookie either, but how many people rev match on the downshift versus dropping it in a lower gear and simply letting the clutch out?
I agree, if you rev match on the downshift, wear is minimal, but the big vrooommmm......downshifts are definitely putting some excessive wear into the clutch and the synchros both are much more expensive than brakes.
Chris