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Guys......I don't know how to drive a stick but I wanna learn. I wanna get a 3sgte with a manual conversion and was wondering what you guys think. Someone told me to sell my car and get a manual.....and that I might do (even though I just bought this car about two months ago) But if you guys think it would be better. Then please by all means let me know. Also....how much of a hassle is it to convert it from auto to manual?

You've done step one, admitting it. 3sgte wont be itself w/o manual -

yep.. learn to drive a stick and you would be happy everytime you go driving!!!!!

where could I go to learn to drive a stick? arcades? LoL

find a friend with a stick, ask him if he will teach to drive one.

I go to school and work all day...I don't have friends LoL! Acutally.....I take that back, a kid in my class is a car nut and is teaching me lil about cars. He has a suped up VW Jetta ROFL but it can truck. I can't remember if he said its auto or stick...I'll ask....If not though....where?!

don't learn on the 3sgte...that'd be baaaaad for clutches. . really the only way you can do it is to find someone w/ a nice little 4cyl car/truck w/ a 5spd. buuuuut, one thing, is that you need know that all 5spds are gonna drive differently, so that no matter what you learn on, something else is going to be different, sometimes drastically. .

-John-

yeah my dad told me that one. He can drive a stick but since my mom doesn't like them the truck he got is a auto. BLEH...I won't dare train on a 3sgte!!!!! **** dat, I'll kill myself.....or even worse...I'll hurt the CAR! But uhhh......yeah I might be able to ask my Girlfriend's dad......he is a truck driver that owns his own business LOL LEARN TO DRIVE STICK ON A SEMI!!!!!!! w00t w00t!~

Just don't learn on a hydraulic clutch.

QUOTE (Mynzeyes @ May 6, 2003 - 8:15 PM)

don't learn on the 3sgte...that'd be baaaaad for clutches. . really the only way you can do it is to find someone w/ a nice little 4cyl car/truck w/ a 5spd. buuuuut, one thing, is that you need know that all 5spds are gonna drive differently, so that no matter what you learn on, something else is going to be different, sometimes drastically. . -John-

Yah John but once he gets the thing down it should be cake

This post has been edited by 95STCelica: May 6, 2003 - 9:49 PM

QUOTE (Stipt @ May 6, 2003 - 7:10 PM)

where could I go to learn to drive a stick? arcades? LoL

either find a friend with a MT who will let you grind his gears for a few weeks (literally ) OR find an arcade with ferarri F355 challange, thats the CLOSEST game ive ever found to being a real stickshift and probably one of the most realistic racing games ive ever seen.

I just waited till i got my liscence and learned on my car. Made sure that noone was with me so people didn't see me stall out, how embarassing. No more though..

all pro

I'll grind it, burn it, tear it all the shreds.......as long as I learn how to drive a stick, I don't give a damn! LoL! I mean....can I drive someone's car?

You can take the ride out to NJ if you want to borrow my car for a day or two, it'd be cool to finally chill with someone who is into 6th gen being as all i see is ugly or hot girls around here driving the new ones. ugh!

I just saw other people drive sticks all my life and when it was my turn I jsut got behind the wheel, killed it twice, and then off I went. I just knew how.... all i needed was to put what I knew and put it in practice. btw I did all that in a friends 9? nissan sentra se-r, all with the parking brake on! So i learned with heavy restriction so I dont get why yall make it seem like its rocket science...

It's scary when you actually think about trying to do all that while driving in traffic in the rain, things like that. When you tell people that once they get it it's like second nature, well that's hard to believe. Someone told me that once and i was like "your outta your mind" two days later i was never home

I just can't wait to learn......I'm eager now....before I was kinda scared cuz I don't know anyone that drives them...but now I'm like fock it....it will own!

I just took my first manual lessons on my friends crx. He uh... said he could feel a difference when I was done. But it's easy to stall the car. Just remeber you got nothing to prove.

Everyone falls their first time.

there is no way I would ever let anyone learn stick on my car. unless mb it was a hot girl, and she'd have to be pretty fine for my tranny to take that kind of abuse.

anyway, if you are serious try getting a rental or take a dealership car for a test drive. its good knowing you can beat the crap out of the car without consequences.

I learned on a Acura Integra and the clutch was pretty much the same. It only took me a week and two stalls to get down first gear. Now I drive stick everyday and wouldn't have it any other way.