Automatic Racing

[AlienEvolution]

Hey, i was wondering if any of you guys have tips for racing an automatic transmision car, other than holding the brake and revving till it starts moving a lil, what other tips are there to get going faster with an automatic?

[crunchymilk55]

floor it??

[Robs71Nova]

Basically if your racing from a stop, leave the car drive, stall is up slightly, and floor it when the race begins. Alot of people like dropping it in 1st when racing an automatic, but it gives no advantage at all, and usually hurts the person in the end because they don't know the correct shift points. If your racing from a roll, it's ok to downshift and save yourself the time of the car shifting into passing gear when stomping the gas. Besides that there really aren't and automatic driving tips.

Rob

[Underground_Killah]

yea i just floor it personally

[drdisque]

do a search, there's probably a hundred threads on this already.

[CivRacer95]

Originally Posted by crunchymilk55

floor it??

I spoke too soon earlier in another thread. Now that has to be the funniest thing I've heard. Automatics are the devil. j/k. Late...

[qr25sentra]

what ever u do DO NOT NEUTRAL DRoP It ! power brake is the best thing u can do, then i heard something about takin off overdrive in 2nd gear but i have no idea abotu it cuz i never done it.

ok i got a story its not worth starting a new thread and its real quick,, my friend got a GTO the other day.. he just raced aganist the evo
the GTO is auto and the goof ball had it in neutral and thought it was in drive.... they both punched it and he revved it up and was like wtf and
sean the boy in the evo took off and finally the boy in the gto (doesnt kno how to race ) neutral droppped it at 5 grand... and spun the tires forever then they caught and he went for 3 secs and stopped.. they lined back up and cops were comin do they fled.. lol

[burntrice087]

Tell your friend that i think hes an idiot for buying an automatic GTO....The Manual equipped GTO cant even go to 60 in under 5 secodns and the Automatic version hits 60 in 5.7s while the manual can hit 60 in 5.2-5.4 depending on the driver....You should of seen what me and my homies did when we saw a brand new C6 Corvette that had an automatic....2 words...... shaving cream

[CamaroSSBoy346]

You should of seen what me and my homies did when we saw a brand new C6 Corvette that had an automatic....2 words...... shaving cream

Reading the context, it sounds like you vandalized someones car, just because of their transmission prefernce?

[pre98zetec]

we should do the same to his AUTOMATIC mustang.

[qr25sentra]

i told the boy he was stupid for gettin an auto... but he told me that they only had 10 GTO's and 9 were auto and the other was stick but it was yellow, this was the place he could get a really good deal on one, its leased and he only pays 350 a month.. btw it is phantom black.

[youngvr4]

Originally Posted by Robs71Nova

Basically if your racing from a stop, leave the car drive, stall is up slightly, and floor it when the race begins. Alot of people like dropping it in 1st when racing an automatic, but it gives no advantage at all, and usually hurts the person in the end because they don't know the correct shift points. If your racing from a roll, it's ok to downshift and save yourself the time of the car shifting into passing gear when stomping the gas. Besides that there really aren't and automatic driving tips.

Rob

thats not true at all.

not only can i feel the difference when i drop my dads c5 vette in 1st but i've went to the track in my friends 95 camry and took off normal, with just holding the brake and raising the rpms. then i put in if first and got a .2 difference in the run.

also, in drive in my dads vette if you just hit the gas and floor it, it starts off wrather slow, drop it in first and take off from a dig and it leaves like a bat out a hell.

the shifting is wrather easy.

[fcdriver]

I always liked my old 400 turbo cause it would shift for you if you were to lazy to shift but it was out of the power band when it did shift, and the neutral dropping well I saw a Contor try that at the track a few years ago and I heard a POP, right away I said to a friend "well there went a cv" sure enough he snapped something cause he had to be pushed off the line and I doubt he drove it home.

[DomesticRicer]

Originally Posted by CamaroSSBoy346

Reading the context, it sounds like you vandalized someones car, just because of their transmission prefernce?

Agree.

[Vetteman84]

to burntrice087, u said you covered a C6 in shaving cream. (giving you an evil eye right now) by the way, i bet that automatic C6 could stomp your ass at the red light or track, or anywhere for that matter.