Barra GT350 - Pulled Over Testing PPG Sequential’s No Lift Shift

What's up guys ?

Welcome to today's video .

We're starting off in the G T three .

It's kind of been like my weekly thing .

I've been taking this thing on Fridays , especially when the weather's nice .

It does kind of stink like this car is probably one of my favorite cars in the world to drive .

But my commute is literally just stop lights .

I know I've talked about this in videos before , but it kills me to just see this thing sitting in the garage , but it also kills me to just drive from stop light to stoplight .

I wish I had some curvy roads around here or I wish I had like a regular track thing going .

But nonetheless , one thing that I kind of want to talk about in the beginning of this video was the idea of selling this car because it's something that I go back and forth about and kind of struggle with .

And I'm kind of curious what you guys think .

So my logic is telling me , you know , the typical GT three owner move is to sell your current generation G D three R s considering if you got an MS R P you can usually get close to what you paid for it after driving around two or three years and putting on 10,000 miles , then you move into the next one , the next one , the next one , it's never really a losing game .

You spend maybe 5 to $20,000 to keep moving into the newest generation G three R .

Initially , that was my plan .

I got a phenomenal price on this car to where I could do that .

Especially my brand is telling me to do it now because of the fact that the new car isn't out yet , the market for these is still really high and I could get some good money for it .

However , I'm kind of torn because I feel like it's going to be one of those things where if I get rid of this car , I'm going to hunt for the rest of my life to find it back just like the 335 was a huge milestone goal that was really special to me in my automotive journey .

I feel like this car is also just as big and it's hard for me to decide internally if it's worth just keeping this car and potentially not getting the newest generation G three R s or getting rid of it moving on and just something that I need to not be so nostalgic with everything that I own .

And I'm just kind of curious more or less , you know , I don't want you guys to make the decision for me , but I thought it would be a cool little point to have a discussion about because it is kind of , you know , it's a game in the Porsche world and who knows too , maybe I own this car for 10 years and it does have the same value that it has now .

But I don't know , in my mind , I feel like that ship has sailed with the older air cooled stuff .

And you know , the last of the manual RSS , I don't know that this car is special enough to hold its value for 10 years .

It's a super exciting day today .

I just got to the shop and we're going to be setting up the whole entire no lift shift stuff .

We're going to be putting smaller 17 inch wheels of the big fat drag tire and the mustang .

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Now , let's go in the shop .

All right .

So I'm up in the car figuring out the shift food situation .

Just kind of , I'm changing length a little bit to get a shift in a position .

That's a little bit more straight up and down .

While I'm doing that , Jon and Marco are tag teaming the rear knuckle swap so we can put the bigger side wall tires on , so they'll kind of walk you through doing that .

I'm just trimming some interior stuff .

Nothing really major up here and then it should be a car again .

I'm really bummed to get rid of the Brembo .

I'm like holding on to dear life to the ones in the front even though the car drives like crap having such a wide track with and like is gonna look stupid with nineteens in the front .

It sucks to ditch factory Brembo for the worse , more inferior brakes .

Um , but I think the car will just drive a lot better and more confidence inspiring if we can actually put the traction out because these , you can only fit like a 19 or like a custom made 18 on the rear .

So it's actually a very common thing for the drag guys to go down to a 17 with the mustang GP brakes .

So I'm over here playing with hot glue .

I didn't like I had to cut the shift poop .

But one of the issues is whenever you cut them and they , they tend to start splitting on the scene .

So I took it and I kind of folded it over and then I layered a little round of hot glue in there .

So hopefully it'll stay looking nice .

So this will fit perfectly with the sequential .

I can have the cable going up for the , for the reverse lockout and then it should look O E M , ah , it's a boy .

I'm excited .

I'm excited .

I know .

It looks like I'm lifting with my back , but it's actually not , I , like , put my elbow up against my knee and then I use my legs to lift it .

Yeah .

Stop using your back .

John .

Listen , we gotta get different lug nuts because the stock ones are a little bit too big for these wheels .

They're nothing fancy .

It was the cheapest ones I could find on the internet just to hold this by until I can custom order some sick stuff you have .

So , no , not the lug nuts .

The wheels .

Shaman .

This guy test runs with the flat .

She let's do it over 10% throttle .

Over 10% throttle where we can , we can close there .

Right .

You're driving ?

Not good , not working .

I have to pull it harder than I remember .

I wonder if , right .

Go to shipping first .

Ok .

Yeah .

Going fast .

That's a real boy .

It's , um , it's pretty good .

Yeah , we're gonna pull over .

You won't work .

We pull over , we can just explain .

Uh I'll call you back .

Yeah .

Yeah , no worries .

We're actually testing a new transmission in the car and I just wasn't paying attention , like , just literally put a sequential transmission in it .

So we were just testing some settings with no clutch and I wasn't paying attention to it .

My apologies .

Well , that might be the first time I'm going to take it on video .

We were doing 70 and a 45 and I'll be honest with you guys , I'd be straight up with you if I thought that I was speeding or if I actually felt like I was doing that speed , I looked at my speedo when the cop came up behind us and it said 60 miles an hour .

So either he inflated the number or potentially maybe the overall diameter of the wheels with the drag tires are a little bit taller , but to add 10 miles an hour is kind of a lot .

It's unfortunate , but it happens .

I just got lost in the sauce , man .

I know I got so excited , dude .

What a way to kill my fun .

I've been waiting for this moment patiently for seven millenniums .

So it is now day two , we're actually going to head over to the track and do a little bit of testing there .

Um Just because there's been a lot of traffic around lately and we want to play it safe , but I put the whole interior together .

Look how good .

It looks with all the trim and everything in there .

It looks legit as heck .

So pull this thing out .

It was fun .

There might be enough room on the skin pad to get into second gear .

Let's find out we connect .

Mhm .

I don't , I couldn't tell if you're spending or not .

Do you ?

No , I , I don't think you're spinning .

This thing makes like no boost in firm .

About £12 .

It fun a little bit .

So I didn't share .

That was pretty cool .

Sign of backfire .

I think I launched it a little too hard .

I'm gonna try rolling into it a little more .

My name's Adam .

I'm not supposed to go with Spain , so it's fun .

Yeah .

So let's go down a little bit .

I was about like £9 up to 15 .

So I learned it by 5% .

It still spun a little bit , but I kind of let it bounce off limiter for a second which I know these engines don't like .

Right .

So let's go ahead and , uh , let's go back so I can set up a , a boost by gear table .

Ok .

I think that backfire was just from hitting limiter .

Was that a trigger error ?

No , there's no error .

There's no codes .

Either you hit limiter or like when you pulled it and pulled the timing out of it , did you do something with ?

It ?

Might have been me letting off .

I might have pushed this forward a little bit .

It's hard to tell .

Felt a little long on the cut there .

It sucks .

But you can't wind it out .

You know , you want to do a 12 .

I can let me try once more with , like making sure I don't push it forward or maybe just pull back .

You ready ?

Oh , we'll try 12 on this surface .

I wanna try one different setting .

Ok .

Try 12 like that .

Releasing like the string .

It needs to be more sensitive .

I think that would help .

Can you do that ?

Yeah , you drive the string .

Yeah , I'm gonna practice without shifting just to see how far I need .

Yeah , that was better .

It's making the cool pops .

Now , did you do that ?

I changed some settings too .

Like the lower gears .

It's like you have to pull harder and then the higher gears you don't .

Yeah , the lower the gear you harder .

You have the cold .

I'll try pulling it hard .

I think there's just so much load .

Oh , that felt cool .

Did you not pull hard enough for a 23 ?

I think .

So this train game is good .

It's just like not unloading it enough .

Maybe he needs to like load it a little bit longer for the 12 and 23 .

Can you do that ?

Yeah , if you want to go back , I'll change that .

Yeah .

You ready ?

Feels like it's taking too long now .

Maybe because I'm shifting earlier and not at red line where it's like , already kind of unloading itself .

I could also just try shifting that red line and it might be a lot easier because it will unload itself naturally again .

Should I try shifting that red line ?

I didn't pull hard .

Number 23 , I guess .

How are you ?

It's weird .

It's like if I go to red line , it's obviously I'm just gonna pull it real hard for both and just see if it works .

They feeling fast .

Now we go , do we have full boost in the next year or no ?

Like a second higher than first ?

Yeah .

And then third is higher than 2nd and 4th is higher than like , I felt like I was pulling a ho but it , like , maybe you didn't , like , I feel like it didn't cut it enough to disengage .

Yes , Freddie .

Keep that up .

I like that .

I did it where , like , if you're cruising around like normal , I won't do that .

But if you go in it then it doesn't .

So that wasn't a lot of throttle just , you know .

Oh , it wasn't , that was only like 50% throttle .

Oh , so maybe we can adjust and scale that map accordingly .

My , are gonna loose again .

I need to put a lock on that .

So we need to go back because I pulled the reverse cable too hard .

So I pulled the reverse cable and now I can't go into neutral or reverse and the shift knob keeps getting loose but the growing pains .

Yeah , we'll figure it out .

I'm going to do again .

50% throttle .

No lift shifts .

I guess it got my problem .

I like that though .

Question , Freddie , I'm gonna give you a 123 , 3456 .

So I just want 23 .

Ok .

Ready .

I'm gonna pull like a man .

Ready you go , bro .

I like it one too long and I want two .

Right .

Yeah , it's probably like , kind of too long for a lot of years can reduce that reduction to we're going to dial though .

How did it feel that ?

Does it feel fast ?

Yes .

It's a very , like visceral experience .

Now , I'm like , what squats you would think not having to use the clutch is like , not a lot of work to drive it , but you got to pull this thing .

Like you mean it , I think the one finger shifting is just supposed to be this , like , not for wide open , wide open , the transmissions loaded up pretty , uh , pretty hard .

That's probably what he meant .

I feel like that is a cool selling point though that you can literally shift it with one finger and you're not one .

Yeah , it's getting close .

I know we see how much boost that was .

It can take more boots in a second .

Right .

I have room to do another hit on a second .

Let me get more things spicy .

I was , oh , I lost my shift .

I'm back .

Thank you .

Yeah .

Oh my God .

Oh yeah .

What , why the white about Mike told me he was like , scared .

He's like , dude , there's no way we're gonna be able to get a shot with the flames .

You're gonna have like time the shift properly .

There had to been multiple of those there .

You did , you did a good job .

It's amazing .

However , the trans needs to get pulled .

Why I think there is an issue with either now what we are learning a possible overextension of the internal slave or possibly maybe some sort of installation , er , with the clutch because I now no longer have a clutch .

I pulled in here went to clutching in first gear and stall the car .

So , unfortunately , we're ending this video on a bad note .

Everything works phenomenally .

Um And maybe it's just an issue where like it's bleeding fluid or the fluid is getting hot or there's air in the line , but based on some of the noises and stuff , I'm worried there might be potential damage to the clutch and I don't want to risk it .

So I rather pull it apart while it's still so , but definitely something that we did dumb , but we'll figure it out and she'll be back better than ever .

I know there's a lot of gopro footage and stuff in this video .

It was a blast trying to figure out the trans .

Hope you guys enjoyed it .