Have your foot slightly on the gas barely coming off idle with the brake pressed. When you see the 3rd yellow mash the throttle and let go of the brake at the same time.
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I will definately try that on Friday night. This has already got my curiousity. The TCI is coming out and im gonna see how the stock one reacts. And more than likely will reinstall the TCI. Thanks for the advice Bobby
sdsubzero4
Spring Valley, CA
I got better launch when Orange told me to do it this way. I just need to get better DRs or go get slicks so I can get some traction.
See this is another thing, I bet my car is alot lighter than Danny's and I probably have more mods, he has higher gears than me, and I bet thats it. And he runs what, 9.5s? Cant remember off the top of my head.
Please list your mods. I couldn't find them anywhere. I think swapping the converter right now is a waste of time.
Your car makes less power than Danny's. You are not comparing apples to apples with these 2 cars. They are different animals all together.
Underdrive pullies, PA performance alternator, edelbrock water pump, ford racing headers, bbk CAI, PRO M mass air meter, bbk 65mm tb and spacer, o/r h, flowmaster catback, the 2800 stall converter, shift kit, tranny oil cooler, 3.73s, eibach springs, non adjust tokico springs and struts. That should be it.
You'd be lucky if that car is making 215-225 to the wheels. You have no significant mods like heads / Cam / Intake. You should stick with the converter and "grow with it" in a sense. The more power you start to make the more the converter should come to life.
For now give the other launch technique a try and go from there. We'll see what happens tomorrow night.
Or I can swap it and be a little faster until I can do a h/c/i swap. If that ever happens. This is just my DD and im about to pick up my "fun" car after the results come out and I find out what I can afford. Once I do start working on this car again, then yes I will put a converter back in but right now I think its too much.
something just dosent seem right, that converter should be stalling higher than 1000 rpm, my stock converter in my vert stalls a little higher than that on the street footbraking,
my old full bolt on coupe, with just about the same mods as you plus a tfs street heat intake, aod, with a 2800 stall would footbrake to just about 2000rpm on the street with crap tires, i know every car is different but a 2800 stall should be able to foot brake higher than 1000rpm's IMO.
are you sure he didnt send you a stock converter with a tci sticker on it lol
my old full bolt on coupe, with just about the same mods as you plus a tfs street heat intake, aod, with a 2800 stall would footbrake to just about 2000rpm on the street with crap tires, i know every car is different but a 2800 stall should be able to foot brake higher than 1000rpm's IMO.
are you sure he didnt send you a stock converter with a tci sticker on it lol
510z read this
The converter isn't going to stall when you "moderately get on the gas".
On the street, if I sit there with full throttle and with the brake it wont get above 800 rpm.
exactly, if you can hold the brake and stomp the gas and it just sits there at 800rpm's something is wrong period.
there is a difference between stalling and flashing, if he pushing the brake at full throttle the converter should flash higher than 800rpm's, hell at full throttle with 3.73's it should spin the tires unless he's got some damn good brakes lol.
I meant flash lol.
navyfc117
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Sorry I no longer have the axles i dont think. He can check at the shop where i got the work done and can have them if they are still there. I cant type the name of that one tuning place with the ********.
Soooo couldnt find any axles in time, but im not worried about that. Gives me time to order a girdle for when I do find some. Any suggestions on a brand? Funny thing happened with the install today, I dont have a stock torque converter! Guess we threw it away, could have sworn we had it laying around. Oh well, still changed the tranny fluid and filter, tinkered with little things here and there, polished the car, and am ready for the Q. Hopefully cooler temps and the tinkering help make some better times. Also Bobby's launching technique should help.
I ran almost 2 tenths faster. Alot of it had to do with the mucher cooler temps im sure. Got fastest times footbraking up to about 1,200 rpm and then taking off.
how much did you gain in the 60'?
Little over a tenth, off the top of my head. Have duty today and am stuck on the ship. 60 was like 2.427.