so i had an s5 a few years back now i have a gsl-se and when I had the s5 i could down shift into second going about 50 55 and it would scratch 2nd and I just got my exhaust on my car and new intake and everything was ready to go and i was on the high way and my friends civic passed me so I downshifted in 2nd and my car backfired like a **** and it was bad i was able to drive in about 8 mins to my friends house and it would excelerate worth **** and when i got to his house it was was idled like **** and then i turned it of and now its dead

 

can you say "apex"

 

why would you even think of downshifting into second at that speed....thats rediculous..

 

Haha, thats funny

 

How much do you want for the car?

 

haha, I would like to know the cost of your car now too. Wow. Some brilliance.

 

why would u go to 2nd... you should atleast be able to tell it cant do it when accelerating. 2nd gear at 4,000 is about 30mph so going 50-55mph into 2nd is a obviously not going to work.

 

Calling BS on the S5 going into 2nd at 55 also.

 

Unless it was an auto, make that +1

 

Make that a +2

 

im pretty sure if u did that would be extreamly hard to change gear to second and also it would of been redlining either blow gearbox or motor or maybe evan diff

downshifting from 3-4 or 5-4 for speed but not second ****

 

ouch......too bad.....

 

true story about the s5 **** i dunno if I am going to sell it I am trying to get this s4 from this girl in haysville and she is like my clutch went out so i am picking it up for 400 and dropping it in my car then i will just rebuild my engine

 

 

what if you have different rear end??????

I dunno im just a newbie

 

If you had the ability to change the rear end you'd know not to change to 2nd at 55mph.

 

then you might have different transmission gears??

 

Now you're being ridiculous, and trans change would be to close the ratios and would mean more RPM to the rear.

 

seeing how he can't drive properly..I seriously doubt, he has mods to the car to compensate... comeback to our side..no need to defend this individual

 

I downshifted from 5th to second Of course that was after some heavy braking, the *** hole in front of me slammed on his brakes.... But yeah, that was a pretty stupid thing to do.

 

that's normal..you matched speed..he did it to go faster...lmao..not sure how someone would think that would work...
when im on the freeway and need to scoot I usually grab 4th from 5th..tho I find simply mashing the gas seems to be effective, sometimes more so..
going down to 3rd seems to make more noise than forward momentum

 

What blows my mind is he downshifted to accelerate (to catch a Civic of all things) not to slow the car, which would have been bad, but not as bad as having your foot into it. Changed to 2nd at 55, come on, what car can do that with a 3.9 diff.

 

Yeah I know what I did was okay, I was being sarcastic not that you could get that from just reading it. But if anything dropping it into second like that would decellerate you. Because the gearing (as stated before) in the trans and differential would naturally want to slow down. It would be too much of a load on the engine to push the drivetrain that hard and POP, apex out the tail pipe All that pressure had to go somewhere. You cant expect to push something that hard without breaking it. The only time I EVER need to downshift to accelerate is when I am in fifth. But that is simply the nature of the gear, it is just to tall to get good acceleration out of. But everything I am saying now has already been covered so, anyways... +1 for this guy being a moron and not deserving a 7...

 

I went down from fifth to second before as well... as I was slowing down to hit a side road off of a highway.

 

but im pretty sure if you went from 5-2 its not physically possible
not sure tho i mean wouldnt it grind the gears n **** sorry im thinkin bs theroys here
never done it