Originally Posted by Ed Wright (Post 377416)

Yep. Nobody wants to run behind a stick car. That and all the " man card" BS, "man lever" BS, etc. most of us ran stick cars back when they were harder to drive than now. Just annoying to listen to guys crow about nothing. Most of us know it's not any big deal at all. Just more work. Some of us got old enough diving under that cars is not as easy as it used to be. But, most do hate the starting line torn up. Faster stock cars don't care for bald spots either. I was sitting in the water box behind Jeff Covert's CJ at No Problem last year, saw the whole side of his car due to that lane going bald.
I never knowingly choose the same lane as a stick running ahead of me.

Originally Posted by joespanova (Post 377528)

Sounds like "smack talk" to me. Whats the quickest you've ever been in a "clutch assisted" manual car?

Originally Posted by Patric Fox (Post 377496)

That's funny Bobby, I havn't seen your reaction times change or you argue with your dad.

Originally Posted by Bobby Fazio (Post 377429)

Cons:
-Clutches get hot in late rounds and hit harder, changing reaction time and 60' time.. also makes it harder to pull gears too.
-Shift times vary since you are human and not a timed C02 bottle shifter.
-You argue every race with your dad about how foolish you both are and that you are switching to automatic, until you finally win one then you decide you might stick with it.

PROS:
-The crowd (if there is any) usually roots for you!
-You are up there on Alan Reinharts "Cool-o-Meter"
-That warm fuzzy feeling you get when you put a modified car on the trailer :)

Originally Posted by Joe Schaechter (Post 377564)

pro manual trans - while driving a race car is fun regardless of your transmission choice, nobody has started a thread on classracer.com to say how cool their auto-shifter works or how much fun it is to race with an automatic. :-)

I have read the statements about the amount of work clutch versus auto, consistency of clutch versus auto but there are enough examples of both cars having success at the racetrack it just comes down to personal choice. Driving a clutch car makes racing a better time at the racetrack for me and thankfully my brother convinced me to try it with our 69 Camaro twenty years ago with our first Jerico transmission.