downshifting to slow your car

[Anubis]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (James @ Dec. 01 2002,02:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It comes in useful let's say when you see a cop ahead and don't want to brake all of a sudden or have him possibly see your taillights light up and give you away.

Also you must be careful not to shift into too low of a gear or say bye bye to your valves. For example you don't want to shift from 65mph into 2nd gear- (maybe even 3rd, have to check). If you do this even letting off the gas/backing in on the clutch again won't help. The rotational mass of the crank spinning beyond redline will make quick friends of Mr. Valve and Mr. Piston <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>
But this is common sense, it does happen by accident though. Just like how people will hydrolock their motors by going through too deep a puddle with cold-air intakes.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
actually this happened to someone i know, he downshifted really low on the freeway by accident, and the engine turned off. He pulled over and started it back up again. &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>