As the title says, I know that different shifts mean different gear sizes bein used, but I don’t understand why it makes you unable to start moving the car. I have been able to start a couple of cars on the 2nd shift as an experiment and I understand that I could damage the car and I do it just once for testing purposes but I don’t understand why I cannot do so on other shifts. To clarify, I mean start as in start moving the car and not just turning the car on. Thanks
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And now for something completely different.
Let’s say you have a 4 cylinder car. Each time your engine turns over, each cylinder delivers a certain amount of energy to get your car going, or to keep it going.
In low gear, you are delivering a whole lot of cylinders of energy in a short time. So if your engine delivers, say, 100 cylinders of energy per second in low gear, it’ll get you moving a lot faster than if it delivers only 10 cylinders of energy per second, which it would in a higher gear.
When you get moving, you find you are using a lot more cylinders per second than you need, so you shift to a higher gear. You go from 100 cylinders per second to maybe 50 cylinders per second. Shortly you shift again and are going from 50 cylinders per second to 25, and so forth.
If, as in the original post, you start to move in a higher gear, you are using only 50 cylinders per second. You CAN get going this way but as someone pointed out, it wears out the clutch and other parts quickly.
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