viking396

Agreed 100%, I enjoy watching people with street tires do these monster burn outs and then wonder why their 60ft's are no better than mine and all I do is a little clean off prior to staging. The people who **** me off are the street tire cars that drive through the water with radials and then the front AND reartires drag water to the line leaving a mess for the next car to dry up. Almost as bad is the guys with street tires who back into the water and then drag water to the line, not as much but sttill something somebody else has to drive into.

modular81

WhenI get to the trackI first open my hood to let my car cool off, while it's cooling I air up the front tires to 45psi for less rolling resistance and better wait transfer to the rear tires. I then lower the rear tires to 24-25psi, this helps them hook much better then if they were at 32psi. I then go around the waterbox and back up just a little to get enough room to spin the tires and clean them off and pick up some sticky rubber. I then stage very shallow and get my rpm's up to about 3000rpms and quickly slip the clutch and roll into the throttle at same time so the rpms don't fall off when I'm totally off the clutch. I usually get a little spin but not much. This gets me consistent 2.0 60ft on street tires and a 1.98 once.

05slpGT

Only problem with the Houston Raceway Park is that there really isnt a way to avoid the water Also noted that i use traction control most of the time and it seems to work. Next time i go im going to try it without TCS

blueherd02gt

Damn I miss my 2 step in my old GT [:@]

Sprzout

Not always a possibility; the last time I went to the track, they had a water barrel between the two lanes with tiny holes drilled in the bottoms; the water would do a slow leak out across each lane. I'djust light up the tires really quick to get the water off of them, but it didn't seem to help half the time, because several times the rear end would get loose.

As for RPM launch, I was anywhere between 1000-2000 RPM, but couldn't seem to keep the rear end stuck, and was swaying over the track (however, I wasn't the only one with this problem; the track was really slick).

fordfanboy

What's wrong with simply pulling up past the water box? When they tell you to stop, just keep going another foot and then plant.