How to best launch?
03-10-2014, 08:55 AM
#16
Drifting
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OMG I pity the person who buys your cast offs. For the quickest take off. I suggest you park your car 20 yards facing towards a good solid brick wall. Hit the red line and DUMP your clutch. That way no decent guy will ever have the misfortune of buying your crap. A 996 was never designed for drag racing.
03-10-2014, 10:40 AM
#19
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My neighbor has a 2013 V8 Mustang and he really wants me to take my 2002 Targa to the local dragstrip to really show those guys what a real car can do. He just has no idea. I just politely decline every time he asks.
03-10-2014, 11:26 AM
#20
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
Too funny. I drive my cars as their were intended. Not abuse them.
I'd be hard pressed to believe that my $100k German piece of engineering can't go fast in a straight line, in turns, braking etc. Isn't that why we bought the thing?
Not talking about drag racing guys. Just driving as it was intended.
I'd be hard pressed to believe that my $100k German piece of engineering can't go fast in a straight line, in turns, braking etc. Isn't that why we bought the thing?
Not talking about drag racing guys. Just driving as it was intended.
03-10-2014, 11:39 AM
#21
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03-10-2014, 12:22 PM
#22
Burning Brakes
03-10-2014, 02:24 PM
#26
Race Director
1) Replace your motor mounts (otherwise, wheel hop is TERRIBLE).
2) Tear out the FWD components (optional but highly recommended)
3) Disable PSM
4) Rev to ~3K with your heel-toe skills
5) Rather than dumping the clutch, release it quickly (maybe .25-.5 seconds), and feather the throttle. You want to get some wheel slip, not a smoky burnout wheel spin. You can't control it if you dump the clutch, but with practice, you can get your clutch releases down to nearly instantaneous.
If you dump the clutch, you're going to get a lot of wheel hop, and wheel hop is rough on the drivetrain.
Incidentally, a decent launch is useful at the autocross, not just the drag strip, and it's a fun skill to learn. The 996 is fun to launch because the HP/torque available isn't going to smoke the tires every time. Putting power down effectively counts, especially on shorter strips where the higher HP cars don't have room to make up the distance once they're firmly hooked.
2) Tear out the FWD components (optional but highly recommended)
3) Disable PSM
4) Rev to ~3K with your heel-toe skills
5) Rather than dumping the clutch, release it quickly (maybe .25-.5 seconds), and feather the throttle. You want to get some wheel slip, not a smoky burnout wheel spin. You can't control it if you dump the clutch, but with practice, you can get your clutch releases down to nearly instantaneous.
If you dump the clutch, you're going to get a lot of wheel hop, and wheel hop is rough on the drivetrain.
Incidentally, a decent launch is useful at the autocross, not just the drag strip, and it's a fun skill to learn. The 996 is fun to launch because the HP/torque available isn't going to smoke the tires every time. Putting power down effectively counts, especially on shorter strips where the higher HP cars don't have room to make up the distance once they're firmly hooked.
03-10-2014, 02:30 PM
#27
Race Director
Welcome back, Hurdi!
FWIW, OP, Hurdi thinks that all people who track their cars are idiots, so it's not just you.
OMG I pity the person who buys your cast offs. For the quickest take off. I suggest you park your car 20 yards facing towards a good solid brick wall. Hit the red line and DUMP your clutch. That way no decent guy will ever have the misfortune of buying your crap. A 996 was never designed for drag racing.
FWIW, OP, Hurdi thinks that all people who track their cars are idiots, so it's not just you.
OMG I pity the person who buys your cast offs. For the quickest take off. I suggest you park your car 20 yards facing towards a good solid brick wall. Hit the red line and DUMP your clutch. That way no decent guy will ever have the misfortune of buying your crap. A 996 was never designed for drag racing.
03-10-2014, 04:25 PM
#29
Rennlist Member
When my C4S was still AWD, if I was in the mood to do a launch, I found getting up to around 4000rpm and letting the clutch out quickly (not popping it, though) got the best results. You need to do a bit of modulating while releasing it to prevent wheel hop. And turn off the PSM first.