eli5: what is actually happening when a manual vehicle stalls?
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When you dump the clutch?
You’re putting full load on the drivetrain while not high enough into the torque band.
Engine at idle doesn’t have a lot of oomph. You gotta juice it up a bit before it gets going. You can start off at idle if you’re really gentle on the clutch, because the slippage will allow the low amount of oomph to slowly build up speed, or you can rev up real high and dump the clutch quick and send a lot of oomph to the tires suddenly (and spin the tires maybe), but small oomph and no slippage is too much for the engine and it stalls out.
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