Roll on with SST - Aggresive Passing
What you'll want to try and do it the following.
Let's say your cruizing along in 5D, (around something like 40-60Mph range)
- keep gas peddle steady, still and slide select over to the right for SST mode ... it will stay in 5th.
- push gas peddle down aggresively but not all the way down, maybe half.
- pull SST towards you "-" and drop in to 4th gear.
- Pin it until about a grand before redline and whilst keeping foot planted,
push SST forward away from you for the next upshift into 5th.
- back off the peddle cuz now your are starting to attract attention.
Practice this and get the timing right,
you'll notice this LS will turn into a rocket ship and boost forward.
You'll want to get the revs up just a split second before you pull back into 4th,
stay on the gas, when she shifts into 4th, follow through on the peddle,
all the way to the floor and let her get up to speed and shift into 5th to coast her out.
trying this in 3rd or 2nd is pointless and you could end up either kissing the windshield or
squawking the tires on the downshifts. road speed may be too high to try this effectivly.
Aggresive on ramping with SST - using down shifting.
same thing as above.
first portion of the bend in the on ramp, with nothing in front of you.
- in SST while in 5th rolling into the bend.
- press slightly down on the peddle, wait for it, pull SST back once into 4th
- stay on the peddle, ride it out, and drift into 5th.
- merge and bring the shift select back into Auto 5D.
off ramping using SST - limited braking
- Get off the peddle all together and lean slightly on the brake peddle.
- As road speed reduces, pull SST into 4th, ride it out, no gas.
- reduce more road speed, riding the ramp out pull into 3rd (but not too soon)
- you'll want to increase the RMP with a slight lean into the gas peddle at the same time as you shift into 3rd. not more, no less, match it!
This is something you have to practice.
Matching your RPM with road speed does not mean sitting there and watching your gauges constantly.
You have to learn the sounds and feel of the engine.
You do it wrong a couple of times and you'll learn that she'll want to go into 3rd with an aggresive slowdown to the point where you
are going to kiss the windshield or lock the tires (this would be too aggresive and takes it's toll on the tranny in the long run)
This is not something I can give you RPM or road speed numbers for,
you have to get a feel for it and learn how to shift correctly with the SST.
don't use SST all day to shift around town, you're going to get distracted and not feel it right and end up shifting wrong to the point that it's a bother, just ride it in Auto 5D as normal.
Easy on the downshifting with SST while your road speed is too high.
When coming to a stop, in 4th or 3rd, (4th is good enough)
while crawling to a stop, slap it back towards you twice, and get it in 2nd.
take off in 2nd, punch it half way, ride it out and forward shift into 3rd, 4th, 5th Auto.
Don't red line it ! a few thousand below redline is comfortable and good enough unless you are trying your hardest to put that Stang to shame.
Red lining is the same as WOT and in my opinion, too much of this is only going to lead to blown valve cover gaskets,
damage to the timing chain & tentioners as well as put too much stress on the poor LS transmission.
Lastly I'll say this and others can add what ever comment they feel.
I use the SST aggresively because that's how it should be used if you want to use it correctly without slamming the gears to the pavement.
You can ride the SST calmly to but then you might aswell be in auto 5D
best of luck.
Practice makes perfect.
Ps: on this forum, there is a thread about modding the SST shifter,
it's a trick for reversing the shift. forward would then become downshifting and pulling towards you would become upshifting.
You should be able to learn the SST shifting as intended but you may do better with the SST reversed.
~ Sorry for the long post. (I love SST)
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