Originally Posted by Canuck

No lift shifting is quit different than what your talking about, matching revs/gears to shift withouit using the clutch. With no lift, you keep your foot into the accelerator. Hard to get used to, goes against everything that is natural, but you use the clutch and shift as normal while keeping your right foot to the floor. Major advantage for turbo is that it keeeps the boast up so you don't have to rebuild it between gears - also seems to have a tendence to create what is called a "drivers grin" (although my wife calls it a silly smile).