random guy on facebook. Just got a new car. Its not the manual mazda 6 I wanted but it will do. 4 hours ago Comment Like 2 people like this. me i didnt get the chevy nova i wanted, but i need get the exact same car body just made by buick and called apollo. also it has a way better engine then the chevy 350. 35 minutes ago me also are you nuts manual is no way going to make you go faster. auto is the best for racing. 34 minutes ago random guy on facebook. are you ****ing retarded??????????? Stick stifts are the best thing ever made. auto's are for pansy's that dont know how to drive a car. 23 minutes ago me ok i bet i would win a race against that mezda 6 with that stick. when racing straight track the stick slows down the car. ever notice the fastest cars on the planet dont have sticks in them. it just slows them down to shift. 8 minutes ago random guy on facebook. .... haha ok I would do that anytime. if the car I just bought had more horse power equal to yours I would take you on now. 7 minutes ago me i only have 170hp at the moment. its also not hp that wins races. alot of torque and pois-tracktion does 5 minutes ago random guy on facebook. no **** but all I need is HP equal to yours to win with my stick which I dont have I bought a cheapo car. me even equal hp would make a different if you dont have the other things. 16 minutes ago random guy on facebook. haha just wait ill see if I can upgrade get the house power then we will see 14 minutes ago me try a dual exhaust it should add alot of extra hp. try upgrading spark plugs and better wires. 10 minutes ago me wow mezda 6 only has 160hp @ 6000 RPM and 155 Torque @ 4000 RPM. mine has 175hp @ 3800 and 260 torque @ 2000. thats a big different 7 minutes ago me it also has a 5 speed trany and i only have a 3 speed. 7 minutes ago random guy on facebook. haha still say sticks are better go to racing websites 5 minutes ago me i have and they are not better. dont know how your faster acc. then 2 secs shifts will beat my thm350 auto-glide trany.
I'm all for Buicks but be careful picking your battles. The type of racing makes a big difference in which transmission is "better". Drag racing is a Automatic dominated form. Road Racing is a manual or manu-matic dominated form. Drifting is manual dominated. Tractor pull is automatic dominated. I don't think it worth the waste of time to argue with an unknow guy and not define the form of racing more clearly.
not to be late to the party but unfotunatly you are wrong.take a look at stock and super stock classes the stick cars are always faster.
super stock isnt faster then funny cars. just thought it was funny cause he was saying if he got a little mezda 6 he would beat me.
ta/fc uses stick trans also.don't get me wrong you sould walk a mazda 6 tf/fc uses manual trans but they don't need to shift its 1-1 but the have cluch.
Sticks are faster to a certain point. Of course Funny Cars and Top Fuelers don't use sticks, they don't really use automatics either. You simply cannot react and shift 3 times in less than 4 seconds, Just not possible. Plus I'm not sure that anyone makes a standard tranny that can handle thousands of HP. Now there are plenty of 9 second stick shift cars out there. It's pretty crazy to see a fox body Stang stick shift run 9s with 5 gears... But look at a newer Stang or Camaro. The stick shifts are always faster. Look at the old muscle cars, the sticks were always faster. Not to mention stick shifts usually put more power to the wheels because they don't loose as much power as autos do. So if you make 400 hp at the crank and have a stick shift you might lose 60-70 hp through the driveline. Same motor with an auto can lose up to 100 hp through the drivetrain. According to many dyno runs, the 545RFE dodge transmissions lose 28% of their hp through the transmissions. That's awful Automatics are lame in my opinion and I would never choose an auto over a stick. Everything I own is already a stick or I am converting to a stick. I can't stand autos His Mazda might beat you, he weighs a lot less than you do.
I like auto's for consistency in bracket racing, but yes, for all out, a stick would be better(especially if your name is Ronnie Sox)
Yes, they are great for bracket racing...but it's much more impressive and challenging if you can get consistent with a stick.
actually your looking at it wrong a stick usually has one more gear than a auto th350 vs a 4speed i think auto 5 speed auto vs manual 5 is a different story but 5 speed autos and bigger are just now getting common in cars
power:weight ratio = everything I learned to drive a stick one summer in Van Nuys, driving up and down Mulholland Drive in a 78 Honda civic back in the 80's. It was white and looked like this one: The twisties on Mulholland played right into the little Honda's hand, and it wasn't hard at all to keep up with the Camaros, Chargers and Mustangs that laughed at it. Atleast until the road got straight. I still perfer a stick to an auto, but in a straight line, a well tuned automatic isn't going to miss a shift and grenade the clutch. Human error sucks.
