heavy engine braking & cheetah VB

Agreed; the manual valve bodies have NO internal braking in 1st gear.

Therefore, if you "level off" the throttle when shifting from 1st to 2nd (without continuing to accellerate) the car will decellerate as if you dropped a gear. That is normal.

The valve body is made for off road use only (drag racing), as you know, so downshifting to low in an effort to decellerate from an "oh sh_t" moment won't work.

Again, it sounds like the VB is working fine.

Here's a link to Turbo Action with the title "To shift or not to shift - your life could depend on knowing"...

http://www.turboaction.com/toshiftornot.pdf


Southernman