Hi All,
How can somebody avoid this type of damage? Is this caused by constant gear grinding and just plain crappy shifting?
http://www.wrxtuners.com/wrx_gallery/fi ... c-042s.jpg
Thanks!
What type of driving would do this?
What type of driving would do this?
I learned how to drive a stick from this site 
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In a manual transmission, those sets of gears are always engaged, so it doesn't necessarily even have anything to do with shifting.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/transmission.htm
While I'd rate it as possible that damage would result from shock loads related to powershifting or some similar abusive technique, my guess would be that the car was putting out two or three times the power the manufacturer expected it to (And, being a WRX, putting it all to the ground), so they found the weakest link in the stock transmission.
Who knows, maybe (Probably?) even a combination of a highly modified car and an abusive driver.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/transmission.htm
While I'd rate it as possible that damage would result from shock loads related to powershifting or some similar abusive technique, my guess would be that the car was putting out two or three times the power the manufacturer expected it to (And, being a WRX, putting it all to the ground), so they found the weakest link in the stock transmission.
Who knows, maybe (Probably?) even a combination of a highly modified car and an abusive driver.