Originally Posted by Nyke

Or you can jsut get some nitrogen put in your tires and not have to worry about warming the tires up, by the time you get to the track your tires wil lbe warm enough. I launch at 1,800 RPM and my 60 ft is 2.087 completly stock.

Originally Posted by an0malous

nitrogen actually keeps the tires cooler, which would be bad for traction...

Originally Posted by campo165

2.1 still isnt the greatest. i got that with a passenger in the car too, stock. doesnt mean they are good for launching. the real trick is the feathering up to about 3500 rpms then flooring it once the tires are moving. ive never wheel hopped once at the track. not once.

the real trick is getting real sticky tires, new axles, and possibly strengthen the tranny, and dump the clutch at around 3-3500 rpms (whatever causes no bogging and a little spin). then youd be out of the hole like a horny teenage girl with a banana

Originally Posted by hatrickstu

meh, id rather come off the clutch harder at 2,000 and save the clutch. then again i only have 51,000 miles and hundreds of passes at the strip on the stocker haha

Originally Posted by arng22

Alright guys everyone always blames the stock tires and wheel hop on bad 60' foot times.
i went out to prove you CAN get a good launch on stock tires, and last night i managed a 2.1 60' on my crappy Pirellis.

step one-junk in the trunk some ppl think "oh that sub box is only 30lbs my spare is only so and so amount of weight" WRONG
strip the trunk.

you may not know but you prob have about 100lbs extra on the rear of your car.

GAS
be at the "low fuel point" or a little higher, you can still make trips down the track and get back to the station just fine.

Now that you have a lighted rear end, INFLATE the rear tires to 45-50PSI (i had mine at 48)
Now DEFLATE the front tires to 20-21- the trick is not to guess at this stuff get a PSI gauge from autozone for like 2 dollars or so


now on to the track-your tires have to be warm, how do you do this? water box? no. burn out? no. take 1 or 2 runs down the track as best you can to warm up the tires.
(i got a 2.3 then a 2.2 then a lower 2.2 then my 4th and 5th runs were 2.1)

Ok typing this and doing this are two completely different things but if you have a visual in your head the better you will do.
IT IS ALL ABOUT TIMING
sense you do not do a burnout you have the upper advantage of staging frist
1 light comes on-roll up-second light-your set.
timing timing timing
when the second car gets the first stage light start sllllllooowwwlly creeping the gas to about 1,300rpm his second stage light hits you want to hit 2,000RPM2-2,200RPM right as the blinking yellow goes off
and launch! DO NOT
-dump the clutch
-hold the clutch in and rev up to some ungodly RPM
YOU WANT
-to leave at the blinking yellow
-press the gas, and let of the clutch IN SYNC
THIS IS SLIPPING THE CLUTCH-its bad for it, sue me but wheel hop is worse.
your goal is to have enough power to propel you to where you have grip but also without spinning tires.
-you should leave the clutch completely by 3,000-3,200RPM
and back on it around 6000 for second gear(something i am bad at the 1-2 shift lol)
note* when i did this my frist gear i spun almost nothing.
my stock Pirellis are not new they have about 12,500 miles on them, they are not new, and trust me...if i can get a 2.1 60' anyone can lol

i hope it helps a little..i never wrote up anything before lol


if done properly the spinning in first will be just about nothing and if you can shift into second with out spinning your run will be gold.