how do you guys launch your 3g's when your racing? i am just kinda curious if people have different strategies.
AT people are welcome to post, but i have a manual.
how do you guys launch your 3g's when your racing? i am just kinda curious if people have different strategies.
AT people are welcome to post, but i have a manual.
slip that clutch!
'88 LX-i Coupe --- LS/Vtec
'08 Accord EX-L 6-6 --- Daily Duty
nutral drop!! j/k thats bad
D3.......vvvrrrrom D2....vvrrrrrrroooomm D3....
1.push in clutch,
2.tach to 2 grand,
3.let out clutch,
4.as it starts to catch, press accelerator pedal,
the sensing of when the clutch is nearing a lock and at the same
time accelerating so you don't burn or glaze took some practice, if I'm nervous I still screw it up. I start release in the low rpm range.
I've found these steps are for me a happy compromise between having fun starts and kinda decent clutch life span.
Rev to 8.5 K and drop the clutchj/k
you bastard oss, i was looking forward to a good racing technique from you!!! lol. oh well....
:bh:
all i do now is slow starts. without even chirping the tires, cause whenever i rev high to launch i feel like my clutch is just getting trashed..
i just shift quick, and once the clutch is out i go WOT.nothing special, and i am sure its slow as hell, since i start off slow!
first gear always sucks don't worry !
my best gears are 2nd and 3rd !
MIKE
3geez member since October 4th 2001
i can shift soo hard and fast it skips my cd player. it shakes and the tires chirp. its fukin sweet. i drive viper style!
Travis
NOHERE
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aight...i hear about this D3 to D2 to D3 stuff....wahts it stand for....i know im retarded
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k, with automatic cars. it has D1,2,3,4 on the shifter....
OOOOOOOOOOO...gotcha....i got me a standard...so i was wondering if it ment downshift....but i didn't think so...thanks for clarifying
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haha i have a hawaian buddy who calls them "standard" and everyone makes fun of him.... though i dont really see the big deal...
do you guys with AT's put the brakes on and get the rpms up a bit? isnt that callled torque braking? it seems scary, but i have heard of people racing with that strategy!
yeah that only works with RW drive cars
me thinks you need a new cd player!Originally posted by DXHATCHBACK
i can shift soo hard and fast it skips my cd player. it shakes and the tires chirp. its fukin sweet. i drive viper style!
Travis
NO
yeah my 4th > 5th shift i have to be careful to feather the clutch or i just light up the wheels and get mean wheel hop!... its scary, i hardly know how to control all this power! :-)
no matter how rough (not fast) my shifts are my 11 year old cd player worked ok.... and i was real hard on that clutch for the first month or so... i am used to it now, and i am not so mean to it!
hmm, i have heard of eclipse guys doing it.. i understand it would do a burnout in a RWD car. but doesnt the rpms being higher when you let off the brake help you get a jump off the line since your engine is already at a higher rpm? i dunno, i have never driven an auto when i would try a racing launch! lol...Originally posted by pimp86LX
yeah that only works with RW drive cars
hmm i'm not sure how i'd work in a FWD car but i used to do it in my toyota 4runner all the time in 4-LO :smokin:
hehe, i will have to guinea pig the idea with my gf's car... lol..
its a plymouth laser, like the mistu eclipse/..
oh well... i still dont knwo how to launch MY car... i guess i will just have to rev up high and get the clutch out quick (i cant stand the idea of DROPPING the clutch!)
ewww..all my opinions about the laser have been shot..theres a wanna be supra looking F&F laser that vvrrrooommms by my house at least 5 times a day
its even got the same orange paint and wing as the F&F supra....blah and worst of all the guy speaks rice-ish...with his yo's and G's
not that your cars bad that guy just ruined it for me :-(
Holding the break on to launch a fwd auto is the only way to go for a good launch with the thing. What you really need is to get a higher stall converter in there, but where are you going to get one of those for a 3g. I used to do when I *ahem* raced my corolla before I converted it to 5speed and started to swap the motor (I wouldn't really call it racing, the 70hp that thing put to its flywheel running through a 3speed auto didn't make for much of a race). I'd say that holding the break made the launch feel like the diference between a goped and a 50cc dirt bike.
andy
cool, so it IS a valid strategy.. now maybe some of you auto guys can win a race!
lol LX. her car is stock and has wheels... its not very obnoxious!
I have an auto which i am son putting nos in. For now, i just remain calm, hit the gas and take the hell off. I've smoked many a prey.
Canman. Reppin for the VI till the day I die.
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