Originally Posted by Xfirenorth
My XFire has the 6-speed manual transmission. Is it okay to start off in second gear or is that hard on the clutch? I'm not talking on a regular basis but occasionally. Bob M
Bob, with 1st. gear being so low, and with the Crossfire not being known for having the smoothest 1-2 shift (on some trannys) I can understand why some people would want to occasionally skip 1st. gear.
As Spensley pointed out, on a down grade it probably wouldn't matter that much.
But as Parawxman mentioned, since the Crossfire has a 3.27:1 ring and pinion, it's really just too high of a gear to try launching with the tranny in 2nd.
Sure you can do it, but you would just have to "slip" the clutch a little more to accomplish it smoothly, and as we all know, the more you slip the clutch, the quicker it wears out.