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F55/F56 Insane rev hang. Fixes?

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Old Apr 12, 2026 | 09:44 PM
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Insane rev hang. Fixes?

I’ve done a search and didn’t find much. As much as I adore my manual ‘24 F55S, the rev hang is absolutely diabolical and makes the 1-2 (and to a lesser extent 2-3) shift really… really slow.

unless you’re doing a crawl from a stop, you’re getting lots of rev hang that forces you to either slam shift and jolt the engine, or you’re clutching in for a solid 2 seconds while the revs decide if they’re going to come back down or not. I’ve owned a few manual cars and have driven countless others and I haven’t experienced rev hang nearly as bad as it is in these cars.

I have seen people mention the clutch delay valve delete, but I feel this is much more a tuning issue.

I know you can bring the car to a tuner and they can tune it out, but I was wondering if there was a way to not totally A: void my warranty/change other characteristics of the car or B: be super invasive like install a light flywheel (which might help, but my car’s got not even 34k and a clutch job isn’t worth it for this)

pedal commander? Is there some internal setting you can code out using some OE software (apparently it’s easy to code out on Hondas)

any help will be much appreciated!
 
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Old Apr 21, 2026 | 06:17 AM
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I've found the f56 to be harder to shift smoothly vs my old r53. I thought I was just getting worse as a driver, but it's probably the rev hang your are describing. Not sure I'll ever get used to sport mode auto rev match vs non sport mode and manual throttle blipping. Still happy to be driving a manual though...
 
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