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What would happen if I were driving on 5th gear at 120 km/h and then switched to first gear?
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Interesting! Would you care to share some of the more catastrophic failures?
Back in the early 2000s the celiac gt drivers loved to do the 5 to 2 shift. They claimed their was something wrong with the close ratio gearbox (spoiler it was really bad drivers) iirc Toyota even acquiesced and warrantied some of them. They were killing both the engine and trans. There was a pretty funny video floating around of some younger dude doing exactly that on YouTube. It didn’t sound good.
As for others, I’ve seen windowed blocks, steam/smoke everywhere, gears with zero teeth left and shrapnel everywhere, crankshafts cracked (this one was part of a development program we were doing, and the guy did it more than once, I still don’t understand how)Needless to say, it got expensive for them.
I can’t currently think of any of them that I witnessed. We just usually get the aftermath to deal with.
Edit: to add, a lot of the cars we deal with already have stronger than stock/upgraded parts, so they don’t always follow the same failure pattern as a street car.
People also don’t like to tell the whole story to the mechanic so we have to do some educated guessing how shit fails sometimes. We usually have seen it before and know exactly but sometimes people do some creative shit and we scratch our heads.