GASCAR

I pick up my new stingray tomorrow but have never used paddle shifts before. I've been watching a lot of videos on paddle shifting but none talk about the gas peddle. Do you lay off on the gas peddle when shifting or keep the peddle depressed when shifting?

C82LT

keep it depressed just like an automatic and the transmission handles the rest.

GASCAR

Thank you!!

JonMN

It took me a while to get used to it, but now use it about all the time. The more spirited the drive the more fun it is! My favorite thread on the topic is this: LINK

lakemg

I take both approaches, but when just putting around, I prefer to lay off the gas pedal and time things right during the shift, to make it sound/feel like a manual. I typically wind the car out to 2500 to 3500 RPM, hit the upshift paddle, layoff the gas pedal, allow the trans to shift, then hit the gas again. It makes it more fun if you get the timing down, so give it a try...

Big Behr

What I don't understand is the downshifting.. do you manually down shift? Or say at a light, normally i'd neutral... but do you just wait in w/e gear you're in until the transmission automatically goes back to first? or do you downshift? or what?

lakemg

You can manually downshift as you are slowing if you want to hear some exhaust noise, but if you don't, the computer will gently downshift for you and put you back in 1st gear once you are stopped as if you were in automatic mode.

saleen556

JonMN

When I know I will be coming to a stop I let the car downshift—it’s really smooth. On curves I do the shifting. One thing I noticed pretty fast was that there is a big drop from 3 to 2–kind of like 2 to 1 in my last manual car. So I tend to corner in 3rd most of the time.

bjones7131

Make sure you shift well before red line, paddles are a little show and you may hit the rev. limiter if you don't shift before red line. This has been my experience anyway. Congrats on new ride.