Well guys just got home, raced a Nissan Maxium in a Jeep Cherokee Sport. Okay, yea I got schooled. Mines is stock, so what you expect when this guy had it hooked up! :(

Now, my friend says its possible to do faster take offs with it, I got auto transmission. But I have 1-2 Gear, a 3rd gear and drive. He said to put it into neutral, get ur rpm about 3,000 , let go of the gas and then hit into 1-2, take off, then after 3 secs go into 3rd and finally drive. Of coruse while accelrating.

Does this work? anyone know an efficent way? I know I will never beat him a full out race but, doesnt the Jeep Hve more torq to begin with to give it that edge in starting accelerations?

Well guys just got home, raced a Nissan Maxium in a Jeep Cherokee Sport. Okay, yea I got schooled. Mines is stock, so what you expect when this guy had it hooked up! :(

Now, my friend says its possible to do faster take offs with it, I got auto transmission. But I have 1-2 Gear, a 3rd gear and drive. He said to put it into neutral, get ur rpm about 3,000 , let go of the gas and then hit into 1-2, take off, then after 3 secs go into 3rd and finally drive. Of coruse while accelrating.

Does this work? anyone know an efficent way? I know I will never beat him a full out race but, doesnt the Jeep Hve more torq to begin with to give it that edge in starting accelerations?



DO NOT Put your transmission in Neutral and rev it up... then put it into gear. Tranny drops are unhealthy for your transmission.

Just press the brake, give it gas... feel the car lurch forward... then when light goes green. Let off the brake, and mash the pedal.

Yeah, neutral drops=snapped input shaft, or blown up planetary assembly. BAD BAD BAD!!!

Power braking would be a smarter idea, just like Redneck described.

wow thks for that lol, really helped. So hold the break while in drive and hit the gas a little and than when turns green mash the pedal? While your driving, should you let go and re hit the gas periodically? would that help?

My friend had a neon and he decided to show off and did a neutral drop, first time he tried it, and that was it for the transmission, he didn't think he was so cool after that. :loser:

while your racing, you should not take your foot off the gas. when you do that, it will trick the car into upshifting. upshifting too early is not too for performance. (unless your talkin about gas mileage performance ) when you start off the line, just hold on to the brake with your left foot, and keep your foot on the gas with the right foot. but don't floor it cusa the brakes aren't strong enough to hold hte car still. so you just rev it enough for the brakes to still hold the car still. when the light turns you green, you let off the brake and you floor it with the right foot and not take your foot off the gas.

couldnt holding the brakes down and giving it gas be bad for the brakes? ive heard it works really well but if you do it alot it can really be hell on the brakes

I don't believe it's all that great for your tranny either :(

I say when you race. Just race, don't worry about launching properly in an auto. It's more embarrising and costly to have your tranny give out on you then to loose.

LoL neutral drops are good LoL.
Any way yes it it is good to hold your car in places with your brakes by giving it as much gas as possible w/o breaking the tires loose. It doesn't hurt the breaks cause you are not wearing them cause the car isn't moving. It doesn't hurt the auto tranny at all and actually is easier on it because there is less sudden impact of parts inside the transmission doing it this way.

while your racing, you should not take your foot off the gas. when you do that, it will trick the car into upshifting. upshifting too early is not too for performance. (unless your talkin about gas mileage performance ) when you start off the line, just hold on to the brake with your left foot, and keep your foot on the gas with the right foot. but don't floor it cusa the brakes aren't strong enough to hold hte car still. so you just rev it enough for the brakes to still hold the car still. when the light turns you green, you let off the brake and you floor it with the right foot and not take your foot off the gas.

If you brakes cannot stop your car at all times there is something wrong with them.

If you brakes cannot stop your car at all times there is something wrong with them.

no, actually if u are refering to the "lurching" its simply because of the pressure being put on them.

i doubt there are ANY stock brakes that will allow u to floor the gas and hold the brakes w/ out the car moving an inch.

the brake torquing (wut i've heard it called), is by far the best way to launch an auto. its the safest w/ the least amount of threat to breaking parts...

i've done brake torquing many times and it helped alot especially because i brake torqued it till the force of friction (brakes) was less than that of the Applied Force (engine). It also helped because i got a jump infront of people then they'd go past thinking I'm all cool cuz i beating a junk volvo then turbo kicks in and people's jaws drop as they get annihilated. YAY!