No offense to the last two guys, but your both a4's, its a night and day difference compared to m6's.
The problem with m6's and sticky tires is the shock that the entire drivetrain takes when lauching hard. Every gear/shaft must take up the slack before your tires move anywhere. This is what causes breakage.
To demonstrate how much slack there is in the drivetrain do this:
1. put the car on a level surface
2. put it in first gear and release the parking break (obviously leave the car off)
3. get out and push the car backwards till you feel it 'lock up'
4. now push the car forward and notice the distance the car moved without turning a single gear.... This is what kills your drivetrain parts. Its not the amount of power, but the sudden impact of it that does damage.
Automatics are able to torque brake the car to take up all this slack prior to launching. To give you an idea of what its like in an m6, take an a4 up to 4000 in neautral and then drop it into gear, makes you queasy huh. Same thing happens in an m6.
So to sum things up, if your an m6 and want to run drag radials, don't dump the clutch, rather, let it ride out and absorb some of the impact. Don't powershift either and you'll be fine, for a little while. <img border="0" alt="[devil]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_devil.gif" />
<small>[ November 30, 2002, 09:06 AM: Message edited by: The Alchemist ]</small>