rec.autos.simulators

What's going on here?  I know that my Audi can be put in reverse while it's
still going forward, thanks to its reverse gear also being syncromeshed, but
I don't believe I can also release the clutch at anything of forward speed.
Someone shed some light on this, please?

-Laurens de Jong, The Netherlands.

I don't know of anyway to help you, but if I pop the car into reverse while
going the right way, I'm gonna be looking at oncoming traffic head-on!  :-)

Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
http://simcrashes.cjb.net

Did you try accelerating when you were in the reverse gear? Surely
that would have caused a spin?

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Feels... unright.

-Laurens de Jong, The Netherlands.

i think the reason you can get away with going forward in reverse is because
gpl works the clutch automaticly (or something like that) i mean dosent it also
seem funny that the car never stalls... if you did something like the in real
life it would probably result in some pretty bad drive train damage, but im not
expert...

if you pay attention to what happens when you put it in reverse at speed (with
the throtle closed of course) it drags the rear tires for a second and then
then spin freely. i think gpl puts it in gear, and then it senses that the
engine wouldnt realy be running in that situation so it forces the clutch to be
used

i hope that made sense :)

That made perfect sense.  I hadn't thought of the auto-clutch
kicking in in this situation, but I really think that's it.  I
also think the gearbox would be pretty much broken before GPL
clutches for me, but that's another story.

Wait a minute... it can't be the clutch.  Because, I can push the
throttle all the way down and it doesn't rev.  Hmm, back to
square one?

-Laurens de Jong, The Netherlands.

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: That made perfect sense.  I hadn't thought of the auto-clutch
: kicking in in this situation, but I really think that's it.  I
: also think the gearbox would be pretty much broken before GPL
: clutches for me, but that's another story.

: Wait a minute... it can't be the clutch.  Because, I can push the
: throttle all the way down and it doesn't rev.  Hmm, back to
: square one?

  I think GPL does some odd things with engines at times.  Another
example is if you sit in the sand trap at Monza you can have the
accelerator flat to the floor in first and the engine won't be ticking
over.  It's quite strange.

--
Richard G. Clegg       Only the mind is waving
    Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group
      Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York
     UPDATED WWW: http://manor.york.ac.uk/

-Gregor

It was drinking and driving that finally killed that car.  after a day
of Gravel Running (anyone remember that?) with a case of beer between 3
of us, I tried to do the local 1 lane 'S' bridge at 75 mph.  We all
lived and even drove away, but not until after hitting both sides of the
bridge putting 6" deep dents all the way down both sides of the car,
taking the exhaust off it, into a 10 ft deep ditch and out again.  Lucky
to be alive, any modern car and I wouldn't be here writing this today,
nor would my friends.  

1 for the road?!  I'll drive after 1 drink but no more, its not worth it
people!!

My thots

Md