Thread: Manual 6 or DCT
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      03-18-2019, 11:56 AM   #11
Mark Aubele
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Another thing to consider is what you will be doing with the car. I've autocrossed her car a couple times (she tracks and hillclimbs it), and taken it to the drag strip once, and I find the DCT maddening in those situations. Not being able to control launch RPM and the trans upshifting when you don't want it to made me want to set it on fire. On the track it is a non issue. Really matters what you are used to as well, I've never really raced an auto, so it might piss me off more than someone who is used to it.

I also find it shifts way too high when left to shift itself, car picked up .3 and 3mph in the 1/4 when I manually shifted at 5800 rather than let it rev to 6800, but it does have the MHD E30 tune.
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